10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Women's Wrestling

1. The Crimes Of The Fabulous Moolah

The WWE likes to present Moolah as being a trailblazer for women's wrestling, for being the biggest icon on the female side of the sport. She held the Women's Championship longer than anyone (a record that will surely never be broken), she competed all the way up until she was an old woman, and held a credibility on camera that you can't fake. The history of women's wrestling is impossible to tell without significant chapters being given over to The Fabulous Moolah.

Which makes it all the more potentially embarrassing for WWE that Moolah was in essence a pimp, a heartless woman who held the title for so long due to politics and arguably set women's wrestling back in the process. She would take large sums of money from young girls to 'train' them, which generally meant she would take large sums of money from young girls to have them live under her watch as she rented them out to promoters.

The reports of Moolah's abuse are plenty. Many claim that she would intentionally get her girls addicted to various substances in order to increase the ease of renting them out, and doing so for sexual favours wasn't beyond her. When I used the word 'pimp' in the previous paragraph, it wasn't in jest.

Rape, sex slavery, and human trafficking are not things WWE wants you to associate with a female that it celebrates above all others, the women that held the Women's Championship longer than any other. A lot of people questioned why the new Women's Championship didn't continue the lineage of the belt first won by Moolah in 1956, and the reason could well be that WWE doesn't want to have to deal with the crimes of its Hall of Famer.