10 Wrestling Matches With The Most Unexpected Consequences
3. The Bella Twins Vs Paige & Emma - WWE Raw 23/02/2015
On the surface, there really isn't much to this match at all.
Paige trash talks Nikki, Brie takes her out, Emma gets distracted, Brie hits a Bella Buster and wins. It's all done in about 30 seconds. Paige and Nikki don't even get tagged in.
It is precisely the briefness of this encounter that affords it a sport on this list. See, this half-minute of "action" was the only women's section on the entire three hour Raw show. Fans picked up on this and were not happy.
Tweets began flooding in about how unfairly WWE treated their female performers, how these talented women were getting sidelined based solely on their gender. The phrase "Give Divas a Chance" began trending online and the company took notice.
Over the next few months, things began to change. They changed ridiculously slowly, but they did change. By the end of the year, the much-heralded "Women's Revolution" was in full effect, leading to far more fleshed out women's division we see today.
Give Divas a Chance didn't directly cause the change in the company's presentation of women, but this thirty second match on an episode of Raw did have its part to play.