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3.Jaguar Yokota
For somebody who retired at the age of 24, Jaguar Yokota made quite an indestructible mark in the world of wrestling. She was the epitome of wrestling in Japan in the 80s. She was quite simply put one of the greatest wrestlers in the world at the time. That fact is said in the vein of considering wrestlers from all genders. A master when it came to submissions and piledrivers, she went on to win a lot of laurels at a young age.
A shoulder injury led her to vacate her title and consequently retire from competition.
But she gave the world Manami Toyota, who was one of her students.
The rest is history.
2.Fabulous Moolah
Everything related to the history of womens wrestling in the WWE begins with one name- The Fabulous Moolah. There have been women before her who’ve done trailblazing, remarkable things but Moolah got womens wrestling on the mainstream map. She held the womens title for a reign of 10 years. She’s as influential to womens wrestling as Bruno Sammartino was in his prime.
Sensational Sherri Martel was one of her students.
1.Trish Stratus/Lita
It is quite hard to term one greater than the other. One’s career is incomplete without the other. Trish Stratus and Lita had their journey to the top of the WWE, more or less, together. While Stratus remains the greatest women’s champion in the company’s history with 7 reigns, Lita remains one of the most memorable characters in the WWE being a great babyface and conversely a great heel.
Lita had the distinct look- the tattoos, the red hair, the baggy pants- and Stratus is one of those rare examples of resilience and determination where she went from knowing nothing about wrestling to a wrestling legend.
Both of them revitalized the women’s division and took it to height unrivalled till today. They became the biggest faces of womens wrestling in the USA and that meant becoming the faces of wrestling to a much larger fanbase.
They certainly started out as pretty faces but moved on to make the mainstream audience realize that talent matters more in the long run.
