10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2018

7. Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair Set A Record

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Widely considered one of the best matches of the year on a card that comfortably stood as WWE's best show of the year, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch's impeccably assembled Last Woman Standing match also set a record that still stands.

Excluding Iron Women matches, their Evolution classic is the longest pay-per-view singles match between women in company history.

Going just shy of half an hour at 28:40, the contest didn't remotely feel like it was outstaying its welcome. Far from it - the two had earned a war as a payoff to a transcendent programme for Lynch in particular, and 'The Man's victory coming from such an epic only further enhanced her growing aura as the company's top singles star.

There's some neat Horsewomen mythology at the heart of all of this too. At 26:29, Bayley and Sasha Banks' Hell In A Cell 2020 epic was one of the only contenders to the crown. Half a decade on from their NXT classics, the quartet remain at the core of a constantly-evolving movement.

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