10 Massively Dubious Wrestling Records
7. The Fabulous Moolah's Near-Three Decade Gold Rush
The Fabulous Moolah apparently held the women's title for 28 years, according to WWE. That she legally owned the rights, and effectively controlled the entire women's scene for decades, renders it a dubious record.
It's like a nobody off the street managing to keep hold of their favourite coffee mug after moving house a few times.
It would fracture WWE's narrative that it all but invented women's wrestling, if it were to acknowledge that Moolah's "reign" was broken by any number of women who didn't wrestle for the company - and thus don't count. WWE are able to maintain the lie because McMahon bought the rights to it from Moolah in the 1980s - not that legal wrangling has stopped McMahon from bending history to it his own whim.
The machinations of Moolah's politicised stint with the belt weren't surprising, given that she enjoyed a stranglehold over what was then known as "lady wrestling". Stories of her rather unpleasant dealings are legion - and potentially libellous, so you'll not read them here - and they call into the question the very notion of "achievement" in wrestling.