40 Years Of Fascinating WWE WrestleMania Facts (Part 2)

1. WrestleMania XX: Molly Holly Offers Up Her Hair To Get On The Show

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With WrestleMania XX hosted inside Madison Square Garden for the third time and with a "Where It All Begins Again" tagline attached, there was a feeling both inside and out of WWE that the 20th edition of the show had to be the most prestigious ever.

Not that the card wasn't free of filler, but the need to get everybody on the show often didn't extend to the women's division and Molly Holly knew this all too well. The prior two WrestleManias had featured one women's match despite the re-establishing of the division in 2002, and Holly didn't manage to get into either of them. At the third time of asking, she cracked the code - give up her hair.

The 20th edition had a Playboy-sponsored women's match on the card, but Holly sold the sight of her being shaved bald to get at least one legitimately competitive offering on the show. Vince McMahon bought it, and the women earned fourth-from-top billing below The Undertaker's return against Kane and the two WWE/World Title scraps.

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