Every WWE Royal Rumble Women's Match - Ranked From Worst To Best

Even another forced Stephanie McMahon appearance (and even more excruciatingly fostered 'YES!' chant) couldn't diminish the significance of yet more history-making news in the WWE Women's Division.

Despite displays to the contrary on a week-to-week basis, the company are still committed to making the Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live! female leagues a success, and the latest addition to the pay-per-view schedule joins Hell In A Cell and Money In The Bank as now having a signature match contested for a chance at one of the two top titles.

The immediate positives are obvious. The match will at least instantly generate heat for the WrestleMania championship match, regardless of brand or Champion, and will presumably result in at least one of the title contests commanding a prominent spot on the 'Show Of Shows'. Alongside that, one performer will lay claim to a genuinely huge first in company history, particularly if the pilot becomes a new annual tradition.

Filling out the ranks may be slightly more problematic, but in the same way the regular Rumble relies on surprise, WWE could get in touch with any number of former stars and Hall Of Famers to take advantage of a legitimately historic one night payday.

Though never in the grandiose fashion of 2018's impending battle royal, the Rumble pay-per-view itself has been a low key hot spot for Women's matches over the years. For better and worse, matches were given rare time to fill, even in the division's darkest days...

Offensive, derisory to women's wrestling and a dreadful match in general, the contest between Ivory and Chyna from 2001's Royal Rumble is the standout candidate for 'Worst' in Rumble history, not least because one of the competitors didn't even feel as though she belonged in the match.

Having injured Chyna's neck alongside her 'Right to Censor' goons, Ivory obnoxiously offered 'The Ninth Wonder Of The World' a shot at her title, but was outfoxed when Chyna returned to television and agreed to the match.

Disappointingly, Chyna's attitude towards the contest in promos reflected her real-life disinterest in the programme.

Condescendingly referring to the title as Ivory's 'precious little women's title' as if it were a trinket, Chyna showed minimal interest in the match itself, idly blasting Ivory en route to a seemingly straightforward victory.

The finish would shortly follow as Chyna 're-injured' her neck after a handspring elbow, allowing Ivory a quick cover, triggering JR's 'Owen Hart' serious voice and a stretcher job that lasted the same length as the match itself.

Disrespectful to the Hart family and fellow wrestlers that had suffered similar tragedy in the ring, the angle was in poor taste and belonged nowhere near such throwaway garbage.