There was a bizarre time in WWF history where an ex-WCW valet was signed by Vince McMahon and pushed as a legitimate wrestling badass. Even crazier was the idea that top-tier women's wrestlers who had distinguished themselves in both America and Japan were signed with the express purpose of having tremendous matches with her. In Alundra Blayze setting the standard that the likes of Bayley, Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch are trying to exceed, Alundra Blayze ranks this highly on the list. Deep down inside, Vince McMahon knows that women's wrestling is money. He's tried it as a draw before, but in 2015 and beyond, he's likely to succeed.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.