Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches

#9 Torrie Wilson & Sable vs. Stacy Keibler & Miss Jackie (WrestleMania XX)

Torrie Wilson and Sable were something of an "item" in 2004

WrestleMania XX is one of the best WrestleMania events of all time, but it does have its shortcomings. WWE was out of the Attitude era and still within the “Ruthless Aggression” era (2002 to 2005? don’t know the timeline, but it was short-lived) but that didn’t mean they were done wasting time with women’s matches that nobody wanted to see.

Now, I understand that at the time it was more acceptable to use women that way, but by 2004 the company had a number of good female wrestlers. Two of them, Victoria and Molly Holly, wrestled for the Women’s Championship on the same show!

I’m not against women being used in things like “Playboy evening gown matches” such as this one at WrestleMania XX or the “Playboy pillow fight” the previous year. Sexy women doing sexual things has its place in society and entertainment, and if the women are comfortable doing it, I’m all for it.

In the context of pro wrestling, it works fine, especially if those women aren’t very good (or just plain bad) wrestlers. They just don’t need a spot on a show like WrestleMania. I’ll watch it all day long on TV, the website, even a DVD release. They did that stuff all the time back then.

WWE had a good relationship with Playboy magazine and from 1997 through 2005, one of the WWE’s women was on the cover of Hef’s publication almost every year. It sells magazines, not tickets.