#3 The original screw job – 25th November 1985
Wendi Richter was the WWE Women’s champion going into a Madison Square Garden title match, against the masked Spider Lady. Even though she was immensely popular, Richter wasn’t paid proportionately, and her contract talks with the WWE had stalled.
The contract situation hadn’t been finalised when the 24-year-old came to the ring at an MSG house show on 25 November 1985. The bout with the Spider Lady would end very quickly with the challenger rolling up the champion and the referee Dick Kroll, calling for the bell despite Richter clearly kicking out.
An enraged Richter would proceed to rip the mask off her challenger, revealing the opponent to be none other than the 62-year-old Fabulous Moolah. Richter would knock Moolah’s lights out with a shot with the Women’s title. She would storm out of the WWE that night, vowing never to return.
Richter would later be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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