10 Most Disrespected Titles In WWE History
6. Women's Championship
While there have been women’s belts that WWE has treated with less reverence (on which more later), few titles can boast as many significant moments of disrespect than the company’s inaugural Women’s Championship.
Firstly, the barren years in which, even by their standards, WWE didn’t care about women’s wrestling. The deeply problematic (but nonetheless Fabulous) Moolah had a stranglehold on the title for the best part of 30 years as the company made little effort to bolster their ranks. The Rock ‘N’ Wrestling era saw Wendi Richter and Leilani Kai do what they can, but disinterest saw the belt simply deactivated in 1990.
Three years later, much the same. Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano had some great matches, but few other challengers. Then there’s the Madusa incident, with Blayze leaving WWE to join WCW in her previous gimmick, whereupon she’d drop the Women’s Championship in the garbage. The problem here isn’t so much the incendiary incident itself as the fact WWE let one of its champions leave the company while still holding the belt.
From there, the company has ditched the belt for lengthy periods, occasionally given the shine to major talents like Trish Stratus, Lita, and Molly Holly, but more often than not relegated the belt to throwaway three minute matches at best. And the worst part of it - for WWE’s women, it gets worse still.