10 Times WWE Waited FOREVER To Break Records
6. Longest Women's Match
Women's wrestling was the biggest success story of the old yellow and black NXT.
With superstars like Bayley, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, and Sasha Banks breaking through to the main roster, WWE had no choice but to push a women's revolution; well done Stephanie McMahon for inventing it...
The era of the divas was finished; here came women who were ready to fight each other for a belt that didn't have a pink butterfly on it. With WWE finally taking the division seriously, records started to be broken on a weekly basis.
From women taking part in Hell In A Cell matches, to main evening pay-per-views, and having their own event at Evolution 2018, the times were changing for the better.
This'll make you realise how bad things were: AJ Lee defended her Divas Championship against Natalya in a 14-minute match in 2014... it was the longest women's title match since 1987 and it happened on Main Event!!!
Plenty of matches have topped that since, thankfully, but Charlotte Flair Vs. Sasha Banks at Roadblock: End Of The Line is the big one. With both of them on the main roster, Flair defeated Banks 3-2 in overtime after their Iron Woman match after it initially ended 2-2.
At 34:45 this was the longest women's match ever at the time. It's been topped by Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber, and WarGames matches, but on this day in 2016 it felt very meaningful for the longest match at a pay-per-view to be the women showing they can do it just as well, if not better, than their male counterparts who'd been allowed to put on long matches for decades.