8 Times Stephanie McMahon Actively Damaged Women In WWE

Trish Stratus deserved far more than the smile-and-wave spot she received during the woefully mismanaged Raw 25 celebration, but she was presumably at least relieved to not have her head shoved violently inside a mop bucket filled with sludge and the day's dirt.

It's what happened to her during what had to be one of the more trying stages of her entire career. After weeks of being forced to neck on with her megalomaniacal gaffer in front of his real life wife, she was humbled and humiliated by him and his stupid spoiled daughter for weeks forthwith. Following the grim sludge assault, she was stripped nearly naked and forced to bark like a dog whilst bawling her f*cking eyes out. The stupid spoiled daughter probably p*ssed herself at the scene.

Along with the fanbase at large, she gritted her teeth for a grand payoff, and luckily it came. Slapping slapping the dimpled chin almost clean off Vince McMahon's face, she played her part in the grand unravelling of the super-villain's night in a Sports Entertainment feast at WrestleMania X7. She chased off the stupid spoiled daughter in the aftermath as well.

Stephanie McMahon got her comeuppance, and then some. The pair had even had an enjoyable, believable brawl a month earlier. As far as 'Billion Dollar Princess angles went, this was a total outlier.

Stephanie McMahon is commentating on the Women's Royal Rumble because she still wants to be considered the vanguard of a movement. Her history betrays the laughable veneer.

Relaunched in 1998, the WWE Women's Championship endured a bumpy ride during a Russo-riffic 1999, but an injection of action from Ivory, Jacqueline and Tori suggested the company were trying at very least level the scales between science and smut.

The trifecta above were still expected to engage in the titillation of the time, but attempted to back up their bluster in believable battles. Stephanie McMahon did neither of either.

Winning the title as the spoilt brat accomplice of Triple H's D-Generation-X goon squad in 2000, she dragged it around as little more than an ostentatious piece of jewellery for months on end. Worse still was the company's broad indifference to her ownership of it. 30-day rules were waived and a division virtually dissolved all over again.

A summer switch with Lita was a fine payoff to a wretched reign, but it was literally the least she could do. By then entrenched in a gripping love triangle storyline with Kurt Angle and Triple H, it was a charitable gesture to give some far superior talents an opportunity to do something - anything - with it.