Even crazier than Alundra Blayze being in WWE, consider the idea that WWE signed a tattooed independent female wrestler trained in Mexico with minimal experience outside of being an ECW valet to a deal. Even crazier is the notion that seven years later, the woman would be a heroine to teens-turned-20 somethings worldwide, a retired four-time Women's Champion and an eventual Hall of Famer. Yes, let's leave Edge, "live set celebrations," marrying Kane, Team Xtreme and anything about Matt Hardy being "stronger than death" out of the conversation. Lita did moonsaults, hurancanranas and main evented Raw. A traditionally great wrestler by WWE standards? No. A standards-defying groundbreaker who in being a backstage agent in WWE now has a hand in molding WWE's future? Absolutely.
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.
