5 Things you didn't know about Alundra Blayze (Madusa Miceli) 

#2 The title in the garbage incident isn't what you thought it was

Alundra Blayze hoisting the same championship she later trashed on WCW Nitro

The incident was the most talked about event in wrestling in 1995. The image of WWE Women's Champion Alundra Blayze making an unannounced appearance on the December 18th episode of WCW Nitro only to dump the WWE Women's Championship in the trash will forever be seared into the minds of wrestling fans. For better or worse, the incident will always be remembered, as it lit the fuse for the Monday Night Wars.

Many thought that Blayze was simply being disrespectful and throwing a tantrum in a full-on public display of sour grapes. They couldn't be more wrong. Miceli never really wanted to trash the title and had every intention of returning it to Vince McMahon, but Eric Bischoff had other plans.

Mick Foley picked up on the true meaning behind the incident and let Miceli know at the 2015 WWE Hall of Fame,

"He said, 'I drank the Kool-Aid. I was believing everything everyone else was saying when you dropped the title in the trash can. I never understood why, but it was the start of the revolution. It was about equality.'"

Blayze desperately wanted WWE to build their Women's Division and did everything in her power to ensure that happened, but the company simply failed to match her efforts. The move was Blayze shining a light on the lack of attention that was being paid to WWE's Women's Division.

According to Miceli, "There was hardly anyone to wrestle. It just became stagnant. I was lost and I was struggling."

Blayze was never able to fulfill her goal of revolutionizing women's wrestling, which is why she was "baffled" by her firing.

She talked about Vince McMahon having been disappointed over her decision to trash the WWE Women's Championship, but countered with, "Why wasn't it a thing for me being disappointed because he let the women go?"

For years, female Superstars were making much less than their male counterparts. Blayze, the top female star in the wrestling industry, never topped six figures, despite working with wrestling's most lucrative company. She described the discrepancy in pay as "horrific."