10 Most Significant Women's Matches In WWE History

Compared to the heyday of the 1980s, being a woman in the WWE in the 1990s was not favourable. Women's matches barely received any air time and weren't considered to be at all profitable. At SummerSlam 1994, Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano set out to prove that this line of thinking was wrong.

Neither pull any punches in this contest, treating the crowd to a physical bout which told a great story. Here was the champion, Blayze, who was faced with the formidable force of Nakano and her arsenal of submission moves. Nakano is on top for the majority of the match and all seems lost for Blayze when she is locked in the excruciating Angelito hold, the sight of which brings the crowd to their feet in shock and awe. 20 years later Paige would revive this move in the WWE, renaming it the PTO, and it still looked as painful as ever.

Eventually, Blayze uses her speed to overcome her larger opponent, winning the match with a bridging German suplex. When watching this match now you can see how influential it has become on today's women's division. Not only have certain spots been imitated, but it presented mainstream audiences with a form of women's wrestling that wasn't based on aesthetics but on athleticism and psychology.