10 Things Everybody Gets Wrong About WWE In 1995
9. Revolutionary
Everybody knows Stephanie McMahon invented women's wrestling in 2015 when she paved the way for Sasha Banks, Charlotte and Becky Lynch to join the main roster on a July edition of Monday Night Raw. But hidden away in the undergrowth of her Lady Balls are a selection of outstanding matches from a group of largely forgotten females.
With Alundra Blayze overseeing something of a 'winner-stays-on' system in Vince McMahon's half-baked Women's Division during 1994, the tide turned when Bull Nakano capped off a series of excellent brawls between the pair with a title win as part of All Japan Women's exceptional 'Big Egg Wrestling Universe' card in November.
Aja Kong was on that legendary show, as were Lioness Asuka and Kyoko Inoue. The three would join other prolific talents in briefly fleshing out the division nearly a year later. A 1995 Survivor Series elimination match highlighted their skills, with a crossover to Raw affording the announcement of Kong's Royal Rumble 1996 challenge to Blayze before her infamous Monday Nitro belt-binning changed everything.
Worth going out of the way to watch is a spectacular sh*t-kicking of Chaparita Asari by Kong. Aja no-sells a cross-body with magnificent arrogance, then obliterates her with body-folding kicks, backfists and even a spinning piledriver. Buried in the middle of a nothing December episode of the flagship show, it is better than the last TV women's match you saw, guaranteed.