If much of WrestleMania 2 was a sequel to the inaugural 'Show Of Shows', the Women's Championship match was the tragic realisation that the original's big star didn't want to sign on for the follow-up.
Fabulous Moolah was (smartly) a bit-part player in the spectacular Wendi Richter/Leilani Kai clash, but was back in the mix just months later after a huge fallout between McMahon and his brand new Champion. Nearly a decade before Alundra Blayze hurled the physical strap in the garbage on WCW Nitro, the division was basically back in the bin here.
A Fabulous Moolah squash victory over the otherwise-okay Velvet McIntyre was sadly about as much as the company were willing to commit to by then - the female title still warranted a place on the show, but Moolah's vice-like grip was strangling it yet again.
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