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

7. Hervina

Hervina Harvey Wippleman
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Whilst I'm on the subject of preposterous holders of the prestigious Women's Championship, Debra looks like CM Punk next to some of the names that held the title over the next six months. More on a couple of them later, but eight months after Debra won the title by losing the match, the first and only male Women's Champion was crowned on an episode of Raw is War.

He wasn't even a wrestler. The champion was 'Hervina', the bizarre female alter-ego of longtime WWE manager and employee Harvey Wippleman, who won the match in a 'Lumberjill snow bunny' match, which was every bit as stupid as you think it probably was. The Kat was the dethroned champion, giving an even clearer picture as to how messed up women's wrestling in WWE was at the time.

Hervina didn't hold the title long. Just the one day in fact, dropping it the next night on the SmackDown tapings to Jacqueline in under a minute. Why not just have Jacqueline demolish The Kat in the first place? Wippleman wasn't ever over in any real capacity anyway, sitting way below Slick, Mr. Fuji, and others on the manager totem pole, so this served no purpose other than to make a mockery of an already mocked championship.

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