Beth Phoenix vs. Michelle McCool WWE female wrestlers have had hardcore matches before. But in the PG Era, that got softened to be an Extreme Makeover Match. Thankfully, that did not mean that the loser was painted with lipstick and had her hair done. It simply meant that a handful of household items commonly associated with housewives (yay 1950s sexism!) ironing boards, brooms, mops, hairspray and makeup were laid out for Beth Phoenix and Michelle McCool to use. The battle for the WWE Womens Championship featured a plethora of bad puns from the announcers, which really is too bad considering that Phoenix and McCool were talented wrestlers who could have carried on a perfectly good match without the silly stipulation. In the end, Phoenix pulled out the win, earning her third Womens Championship. Sadly, she tore her ACL two weeks later and was put on the shelf for several months.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
