10 WWE Wrestlers You Can’t Believe Got Over

6. Sable

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In addition to regularly tearing her clothes off, Sable tore the d*mn house down at WrestleMania XIV in her match with Marc Mero opposite TAFKAGoldust and Luna Vachon. As the WWF’s answer to Pamela Anderson, she was always going to receive pops, of an often literal nature, by the new teenage crowd drawn to the WWF’s Attitude Era ethos - but the extent of her popularity was something unprecedented in the male-dominated WWF landscape.

Re-watch that match, and you'll notice that there's an actual performer underneath the eye candy facade. Her offence was the sh*ts, obviously, but she did very well to make the space between moves matter with genuine babyface fire. The layout flattered her - the three pros teased and created anticipation for her brief routine - but Sable did as much. She stared a hole through Luna (the real-life hatred probably helped). And, when she finally got her hands on and slapped the p*ss out of her, the crowd reaction was so deafening that Jim Ross had to stop himself from involuntarily saying "This crowd is going absolutely apesh*t!". He collected himself, and changed course to "...crazy here."

And people said she was just a big pair of t*ts.

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