10 WWE Royal Rumble Eliminations More Significant Than You First Thought
8. Mark Henry (1999)
With wrestlers like Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Alexa Bliss being part of the company's most memorable storylines and even main-eventing pay-per-views occasionally, it's easy to forget how WWE's treatment of women rarely went beyond objectifying them until the very recent past. Think back to the late 90s and ignore all the valets, managers and announcers - try and think of a woman who was taken seriously as a wrestler.
Even when the company was at its creative peak, only a handful of women were taken seriously as wrestlers. It would be years before WWE's acclaimed Women's Revolution, but there was one woman who was laying the groundwork decades in advance - Chyna.
Chyna's elimination of Mark Henry in the 1999 Royal Rumble marked one of the first times that women began to be seen as serious wrestlers. And while it would take 16 years for WWE's actual Women's Revolution, the 'Ninth Wonder Of the World' laid some groundwork for it here.