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#4 AJ Lee
At the same time Paige was redefining women's wrestling in NXT, her future rival, AJ Lee, was having the then-longest Divas Championship reign. While hampered by the usual main roster nonsense, AJ Lee's immense popularity made her an effective speaker for the state of the division in general.
It was the combination of AJ Lee's respected tenure as champion and popularity that made her biggest contribution something that no one would ever forget.
In early 2015, there was a 30-second Divas tag team match. When Stephanie McMahon attempted to virtue signal on twitter about women's equality, that was when AJ Lee struck. Attacking the company for the way it treated its female talent, despite strong ratings and merchandise sales, the trend #GiveDivasAChance lasted for several days.
The campaign effectively embarrassed and rattled a usually out of touch company, which started to make some changes in the months afterwards which mirrored some of the things NXT was already doing.
AJ Lee sadly didn't get to take part in the actual revolution on the main roster, retiring mere months before it happened, but were it not for her efforts in turning the spotlight on the company's practices, that revolution might never have come.
