6 Ups And Downs For Last Night's WWE Raw (March 2nd)
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6. Blayzing A Trail
Womens wrestling in the early 90s was so dismal that the WWF Womens Championship was deactivated for several years. Its hard to believe that less than a decade earlier, it was Wendy Richter and Cindy Lauper that helped trigger the Rock n Wrestling Connection that launched WWF into the stratosphere. Thats why WWEs decision to induct Alundra Blayze (known as Madusa in AWA and WCW) into its Hall of Fame is an appropriate decision. She helped revitalize WWF womens wrestling in the mid-90s, reminding fans that women could be more than eye candy on the outside of the ring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPT84qMxCs WWE deserves a bit of credit for not only deciding to induct Blayze into the WWE HOF, but also acknowledging one of the most infamous moments in the Monday Night Wars when she jumped to WCW and dumped the WWF Womens Championship into the trash live on Nitro. While that was part of the WWE Network series, seeing it acknowledged on Raw was a somewhat bold move. The company has glazed over other parts of wrestling history, but this was too important to ignore.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
