10 Wrestlers Who Broke Typecasting In The Most Epic Way
4. Chyna
Spotted by Triple H and Shawn Michaels (and used by her then-boyfriend Hunter to get over altogether) Chyna's initial appeal was undeniably because she looked as if she could deck any man on the roster with ease.
Positioned against the tiny Marlena was a masterstroke in its own right at that point, but only when she moved into fighting males full time did WWE's faith in the 'Ninth Wonder Of The World' pay off.
The nickname itself was of some prestige - Andre The Giant claims the eighth wonder in wrestling circles - but Chyna's own pedigree was briefly more powerful than Triple H's untouchable finisher. The silence behind the violence of DX broke out proper in late-1999 and became the first female Intercontinental Champion.
The normalisation process was such that her brief shift to the Women's division shortly before her acrimonious 2001 exit was harder to parse than the wars she'd waged against Chris Jericho, Jeff Jarrett et al.