One could argue that in late 1999/early 2000 WWE hit its peak in terms of exploitation of women it was during that time that Stacy "The Kat" Carter famously disrobed on Pay-Per-View and a bikini contest at the Royal Rumble turned into an excuse to show then-septuagenarian Mae Young wearing a pair of prosthetic breasts. During this time period, we were introduced to the WWE's newest Diva, B.B. Though initially she appeared to be a paramedic, her attempts to help The Kat during a gravy bowl match led Ivory to tear her shirt off and throw her in said gravy. B.B. (which stood for Barbara Bush surely a feather in the cap of some writer with high school-aged friends) began a feud with Ivory that led to her getting her shirt torn off repeatedly. She faded into the background and, only three months after her debut, was written off television after taking a top-rope Powerbomb through a table from Bubba Ray Dudley. You see, she apparently still had a job as a paramedic, so she checked on him after he appeared to be injured, one thing led to another, and smash. Of course, this is wrestling, so no WWE star is ever gone forever, no matter how briefly their candle burned. B.B. would turn up in WCW as Papaya, the wife of Kwee-Wee, then later in TNA as Taylor Vaughn. No word on which experience was least pleasant.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
