5. Victoria Vs. Michelle McCool For The First-Ever Divas Championship
2008 was the year the WWE created its second-ever single's title for the women, the SmackDown! exclusive Divas Championship. After the WWE was split into two different brands, then-reigning Women's Champion Molly Holly refused to defend her belt against the SmackDown! Divas (which consisted of Torrie Wilson, Dawn Marie Ronaldi, Nidia Guenard, and for a brief time Stacy Keibler), seeing them as inferior athletes and merely T&A. As a result, when Molly lost the belt, it just remained exclusive to the RAW brand. After years of neglect, the SmackDown! girls were finally going to show that they were worthy of their own belt. It was also a way of showing that being a Diva and being sent to SmackDown! wasn't a death sentence as experienced and talented wrestlers such as Victoria would now have something to compete for. Many assumed, due to being one of the longest-tenured Divas, that Victoria would be one of the two to challenge for the title. Unfortunately, it would up being newbie Diva Natalya Neidhart who would qualify for the Divas Championship Match at that year's Great American Bash Pay-Per-View ... against Michelle McCool. Looking back, due to her history with McCool on SmackDown!, it would have made more sense if Victoria had been McCool's opponent instead of Nattie, who was still struggling to connect with the audience (as was McCool). It also would have made more sense to have made Victoria the first Divas Champion as people's dislike for McCool caused them to immediately discredit the Divas Championship upon its inception.