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

3. PCB Vs Team Bella Vs Team BAD (SummerSlam 2015)

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It wasn't enough for WWE to just keep telling their audience that women's wrestling was suddenly a thing after years (and years) of reducing it to little more than titillation or toilet breaks.

Many of the viewers that exclusively only watched Raw and SmackDown were largely unaware of a genuine revolution happening on NXT, and the abrupt introduction of Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch onto a July edition of the flagship show wasn't going to wave a magic wand and change the perception.

Nor was the company's bizarre insistence on forcing each woman into a triumvirate. The inexplicable pigeonholing almost instantly robbed the newcomers of their fire, and severely limited character development for the entire division.

Despite these issues, the stilted match did its best to aggressively adjust expectations from a conflicted crowd, opening with a series of dives and highspots from every combatant before Team BAD were eliminated by Team Bella.

There were few individual highlights following the reversion to the standard six-women contest, with Paige sustaining a lengthy and boring beating from the heels before finally scoring a hot tag to Charlotte, who decked all three villains to cue up a Becky Lynch pump-handle slam on Brie for PCB's crowd-pleasing win.

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