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* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at ''Dreamslam 1''). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time with their feud against Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto's Atrocious Alliance and getting more viewers than WWE and WCW at their peaks. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
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* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at ''Dreamslam 1''). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time with their feud against Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto's Atrocious Alliance and getting more viewers than WWE and WCW at their peaks. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names HouseholdNames though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
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* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at ''Dreamslam 1''). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time with their feud against Dump Matsumoto's Atrocious Alliance and getting more viewers than WWE and WCW at their peaks. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
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* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at ''Dreamslam 1''). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time with their feud against Dump Matsumoto's Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto's Atrocious Alliance and getting more viewers than WWE and WCW at their peaks. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
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* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "[[JiggleShow new]]" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America. By 2009 the knockouts were already losing steam but still had enough buzz for TNA to give them a TagTeam division born out of Wrestling/TaylorWilde and Wrestling/{{Sar|ahStock}}ita's feud with Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople.
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* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "[[JiggleShow "[[{{Fanservice}} new]]" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America. By 2009 the knockouts were already losing steam but still had enough buzz for TNA to give them a TagTeam division born out of Wrestling/TaylorWilde and Wrestling/{{Sar|ahStock}}ita's feud with Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople.
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* Due to circumstances surrounding the NWA and WWF women's titles, as well as the gradual decline of the AWA, the most well known women wrestlers of the USA in the mid to late 1980s typically competed for Wrestling/{{GLOW}}. Much of the roster had signed on to use it as a stepping stone to further their acting careers but the employment of trainer Mando Guerrero ensured wrestlers would take the deliberately {{camp}} promotion as seriously as possible. Though she was never a title holder of any kind, TheFace of GLOW was Mountain Fiji.
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* Due to circumstances surrounding the NWA and WWF women's titles, as well as the gradual decline of the AWA, the most well known women wrestlers of the USA in the mid to late 1980s typically competed for Wrestling/{{GLOW}}. Much of the roster had signed on to use it as a stepping stone to further their acting careers but the employment of trainer Mando Guerrero ensured wrestlers would take the deliberately {{camp}} promotion as seriously as possible. Though she was never a title holder of any kind, TheFace of GLOW was Mountain Fiji. The actual inaugural champion WomanChild Tammy Jones was hard to take seriously, even accepting GLOW for what it was, with TagTeam champions The Beverly Hills Girls, OKA T&A [[Wrestling/{{Ivory}} Tina Ferrari]] and Ashley Cartier, being the secondary faces behind Fiji.
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* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division. In a time when shoot matches still happened, Burke often wrestled against men in them, and it's claimed she never lost to a man within 20 pounds of her weight.
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* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division. Despite Byers's fearsome reputation the NWA still felt the need to double cross Burke by calling the match at one fall instead of two, to prevent Burke from getting a chance to retaliate. In a time when shoot matches still happened, Burke often wrestled against men in them, and it's claimed she never lost to a man within 20 pounds of her weight.
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* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at Dreamslam 1). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
* In 1983, Wrestling/{{WWE}} cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Wrestling/JumpingBombAngels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive period when Madusa defected to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
* In 1983, Wrestling/{{WWE}} cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Wrestling/JumpingBombAngels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive period when Madusa defected to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
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* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at Dreamslam 1). ''Dreamslam 1''). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time.time with their feud against Dump Matsumoto's Atrocious Alliance and getting more viewers than WWE and WCW at their peaks. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
* In 1983, Wrestling/{{WWE}} cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Wrestling/JumpingBombAngels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactiveperiod when period, with Madusa defected defecting to Wrestling/{{WCW}}.Wrestling/{{WCW}} as a result. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim interim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
* In 1983, Wrestling/{{WWE}} cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Wrestling/JumpingBombAngels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive
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* As they were wont to do, WCW imitated the WWF, bringing in Akira Hokuto and Toshie Uematsu from the Japanese promotion GAEA to start its own women's divisions. Unfortunately for viewers in the United States, the women in those divisions competed almost exclusively in Japan.
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* As they were wont to do, WCW imitated the WWF, bringing in Akira Hokuto and Toshie Uematsu from the Japanese promotion GAEA to start its own women's divisions. Unfortunately for viewers in the United States, the women in those divisions competed almost exclusively in Japan. GAEA itself was the most successful competitor to Zenjo. Crush Gal Chigusa Nagayo started it in 1995 and found herself under siege from now legendary {{power stable}}s Super Star Unit(lead by ex partner Lioness Asuka), and The Oz Academy(a wrestling school lead by Mayumi Ozaki), as well as the PowerTrio Las Cachorras Orientales (founded by that same Hokuto).
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* Some of the earliest examples were Nancy Hanks in the early 1800s, who in hooking lore was known to make locals money when they bet visiting men couldn't beat her in wrestling matches and Josie Wahlford, who became the first recognized professional wrestling World Champion on record in the 1890s.
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* Some of the earliest examples were Nancy Hanks in the early 1800s, who in hooking lore was known to make locals money when they bet visiting men couldn't beat her in wrestling matches and Josie "Minerva" Wahlford, who became the first recognized professional wrestling World Champion on record in the 1890s.1890s. Historically Minerva is usually only considered a champion of The United States Of America(although she is still called the first USA Women's Wrestling Champion), while Cora Livingston, whose reign began in 1910, is more widely accepted as professional wrestling's first World Women's Champion. Livingston retired as champion, unlike Minerva, and it was Mildred Burke's matches winning and defending Livingston's belt that gave legitimacy to the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance's own World Women's Title.
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Pretty much any woman who wrestles could qualify as an ActionGirl, and even non-wrestlers can have their moments. Specific examples include:
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* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by [[Wrestling/JessicaKressa ODB]] during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
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* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by [[Wrestling/JessicaKressa [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]] during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
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* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by ODB during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "new" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America. By 2009 the knockouts were already losing steam but still had enough buzz for TNA to give them a TagTeam division born out of Wrestling/TaylorWilde and Wrestling/{{Sar|ahStock}}ita's feud with Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople.
* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "new" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America. By 2009 the knockouts were already losing steam but still had enough buzz for TNA to give them a TagTeam division born out of Wrestling/TaylorWilde and Wrestling/{{Sar|ahStock}}ita's feud with Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople.
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* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by ODB [[Wrestling/JessicaKressa ODB]] during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's"new" "[[JiggleShow new]]" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America. By 2009 the knockouts were already losing steam but still had enough buzz for TNA to give them a TagTeam division born out of Wrestling/TaylorWilde and Wrestling/{{Sar|ahStock}}ita's feud with Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople.
* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's
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* One noticeable trend that immediately set Wrestling/LuchaUnderground apart from the established wrestling shows of US national TV during 2014 was a much higher frequency of women who regularly traded holds and blows with men(a trait inherited from AAA and Perros Del Mal Producciones). Despite not having a proper women's division, Ivelisse Velez was a third of their first champion trios team(which also lead to a {{subver|tedtrope}}sion, as [[GameBreakingInjury a broken ankle]] forced her to sit on the sidelines during much of their reign and her attempt [[ICanStillFight to fight on crutches]] led to them to losing the titles, though they would be regained after Velez recovered)
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* One noticeable trend that immediately set Wrestling/LuchaUnderground apart from the established wrestling shows of US national TV during 2014 was a much higher frequency of women who regularly traded holds and blows with men(a trait inherited from AAA and Perros Del Mal Producciones). Despite not having a proper women's division, Ivelisse Velez was a third of their first champion trios team(which also lead to a {{subver|tedtrope}}sion, as [[GameBreakingInjury a broken ankle]] forced her to sit on the sidelines during much of their reign and her attempt [[ICanStillFight to fight on crutches]] led to them to losing the titles, though they would be regained after Velez recovered)recovered). The ultimate plan was to make Velez the singles champion as well but because of her injuries that honor went to Sexy Star.
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* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]], the first female to win Chikara's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html Young Lion Cup]] and [[Wrestling/KimberLee Princess Kimberlee]], their first female [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html Grand Champion]].
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* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]], the first female to win Chikara's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html Young Lion Cup]] and Wrestling/PrincessKimberlee, their first female [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html Grand Champion]].
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* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]], the first female to win Chikara's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html Young Lion Cup]] and Wrestling/PrincessKimberlee, [[Wrestling/KimberLee Princess Kimberlee]], their first female [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html Grand Champion]].
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* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, Heidi Lovelace, the first female to win Chikara's Young Lion Cup and Princess Kimberlee, their first female Grand Champion.
* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, [[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, [[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
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* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace, Lovelace]], the first female to win Chikara's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html Young Lion Cup Cup]] and Princess Kimberlee, Wrestling/PrincessKimberlee, their first female [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html Grand Champion.
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* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}},[[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], Wrestling/{{Nidia}}, [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}},
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* In 1983, The Wrestling/WorldWrestlingFederation cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Jumping Bomb Angels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive period when Madusa defected to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
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* In 1983, The Wrestling/WorldWrestlingFederation Wrestling/{{WWE}} cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Jumping Bomb Angels Wrestling/JumpingBombAngels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive period when Madusa defected to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
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* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by ODB during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, Wrestling/{{Emma}}, Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
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* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by ODB during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, Wrestling/{{Emma}}, [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
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* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of All Japan Womens Pro Wrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division. In a time when shoot matches still happened, Burke often wrestled against men in them, and it's claimed she never lost to a man within 20 pounds of her weight.
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* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of All Japan Womens Pro Wrestling Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division. In a time when shoot matches still happened, Burke often wrestled against men in them, and it's claimed she never lost to a man within 20 pounds of her weight.
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* While [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] is best know for its [[GarbageWrestling violent bouts]], it was also praised for the wider variety of match types it featured on a card. And during the 1990s, the most famous women wrestlers in Japan, after AJW/Zenjo anyway, were in FMW. Particularly Combat Toyoda, who became their first champion at the start of the decade, and Megumi Kudo, who was rejected from Zenjo for failing to progress as a wrestler but made the most of a second chance, defying critics who claimed she was [[BeautyIsBad only being pushed for her looks]] by bleeding for her new home promotion, becoming FMW's top draw when founder Atsushi Onita was absent and taking part in Japan's first mixed tag team match with Ricky Fuji against FMW's [[StuckInTheirShadow less popular founder]] Tarzan Goto [[BattleCouple and his wife]], Despina Montagas.
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* While [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] is best know known for its [[GarbageWrestling violent bouts]], it was also praised for the wider variety of match types it featured on a card. And during the 1990s, the most famous women wrestlers in Japan, after AJW/Zenjo anyway, were in FMW. Particularly Combat Toyoda, who became their first champion at the start of the decade, and Megumi Kudo, who was rejected from Zenjo for failing to progress as a wrestler but made the most of a second chance, defying critics who claimed she was [[BeautyIsBad only being pushed for her looks]] by bleeding for her new home promotion, becoming FMW's top draw when founder Atsushi Onita was absent and taking part in Japan's first mixed tag team match with Ricky Fuji against FMW's [[StuckInTheirShadow less popular founder]] Tarzan Goto [[BattleCouple and his wife]], Despina Montagas.
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* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, [[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wresting/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
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* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, [[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wresting/CarleneMoore [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
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* In 2013, the World Wrestling League began showcasing women's wrestlers from the aforementioned NWA, AAA and CMLL, as well US mainland based Pro Wrestling Revolution, U Know Pro and the Bolivia based New Xtreme Order. In 2015, it would give the Puerto Rican majors their own women's title again with the Diosas division, initially a false start with former WWC women's champion La Morena then a ''slightly'' more successful attempt with a woman who had been present during much of their collaboration with the other promotions, Wrestling/IvelisseVelez.
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* In 2013, the World Wrestling League began showcasing women's women wrestlers from the aforementioned NWA, AAA and CMLL, as well US mainland based Pro Wrestling Revolution, U Know Pro and the Bolivia based New Xtreme Order. In 2015, it would give the Puerto Rican majors their own women's title again with the Diosas division, initially a false start with former WWC women's champion La Morena then a ''slightly'' more successful attempt with a woman who had been present during much of their collaboration with the other promotions, Wrestling/IvelisseVelez. Even after the Diosas belt disappeared again, La Perla Negra Allison followed Velez's footsteps in a way, becoming one third of WWL's trios champions(see Lucha Underground's entry).
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* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of All Japan Womens Pro Wrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division.
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* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of All Japan Womens Pro Wrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division. In a time when shoot matches still happened, Burke often wrestled against men in them, and it's claimed she never lost to a man within 20 pounds of her weight.
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* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "new" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America.
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* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "new" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America. By 2009 the knockouts were already losing steam but still had enough buzz for TNA to give them a TagTeam division born out of Wrestling/TaylorWilde and Wrestling/{{Sar|ahStock}}ita's feud with Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople.
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* While Capitol Sports Promotions had a women's division since the mid 1980s with memorable matches from respectable champions such as Wendi Richter and Monster Ripper, while Ponce native Irma Acevedo had toured the US mainland, Canada and Japan as AGWA tag team champion during the 1970s, a Puetro Rican woman had not broken out as a pro wrestling star in Puerto Rico itself until La Tigresa won the belt in 1992. As a {{face}} she enjoyed a five year reign and as a {{heel}} was tough enough to quickly recover from a ShovelStrike delivered by Eddie Colon. Despite inspiring a fearsome pool of women wrestlers to choose from, the collective women's division of the major promotions was inactive for eight years following Tigresa's 1998 arrest and then metaphorically bounced between the World Wrestling Council and IWA Puerto Rico for half a decade as women like Genesis and La Amazona migrated between whichever was paying better before being fazed out on the final day of 2011, women's pro wrestling only remaining a fixture of independent promotions such as EWO.
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* While Capitol Sports Promotions had a women's division since the mid 1980s with memorable matches from respectable champions such as Wendi Richter and Monster Ripper, while Ponce native Irma Acevedo had toured the US mainland, Canada and Japan as AGWA tag team champion during the 1970s, 1970s(alongside Masked Killer), a Puetro Rican woman had not broken out as a pro wrestling star in Puerto Rico itself until La Tigresa won the belt in 1992. As a {{face}} she enjoyed a five year reign and as a {{heel}} was tough enough to quickly recover from a ShovelStrike delivered by Eddie Colon. Despite inspiring a fearsome pool of women wrestlers to choose from, the collective women's division of the major promotions was inactive for eight years following Tigresa's 1998 arrest and then metaphorically bounced between the World Wrestling Council and IWA Puerto Rico for half a decade as women like Genesis and La Amazona migrated between whichever was paying better before being fazed out on the final day of 2011, women's pro wrestling only remaining a fixture of independent promotions such as EWO.
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* While Capitol Sports Promotions had a women's division since the mid 1980s with memorable matches from respectable champions such as Wendi Richter and Monster Ripper, while Puerto Rican women had established themselves on both sides of the pacific long before that, a Puetro Rican woman had not broken out as a pro wrestling star in Puerto Rico itself until La Tigresa won the belt in 1992. As a {{face}} she enjoyed a five year reign and as a {{heel}} was tough enough to quickly recover from a ShovelStrike delivered by Eddie Colon. Despite inspiring a fearsome pool of women wrestlers to choose from, the collective women's division of the major promotions was inactive for eight years following Tigresa's 1998 arrest and then metaphorically bounced between the World Wrestling Council and IWA Puerto Rico for half a decade as women like Genesis and La Amazona migrated between whichever was paying better before being fazed out on the final day of 2011, women's pro wrestling only remaining a fixture of independent promotions such as EWO.
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* While Capitol Sports Promotions had a women's division since the mid 1980s with memorable matches from respectable champions such as Wendi Richter and Monster Ripper, while Puerto Rican women Ponce native Irma Acevedo had established themselves on both sides of toured the pacific long before that, US mainland, Canada and Japan as AGWA tag team champion during the 1970s, a Puetro Rican woman had not broken out as a pro wrestling star in Puerto Rico itself until La Tigresa won the belt in 1992. As a {{face}} she enjoyed a five year reign and as a {{heel}} was tough enough to quickly recover from a ShovelStrike delivered by Eddie Colon. Despite inspiring a fearsome pool of women wrestlers to choose from, the collective women's division of the major promotions was inactive for eight years following Tigresa's 1998 arrest and then metaphorically bounced between the World Wrestling Council and IWA Puerto Rico for half a decade as women like Genesis and La Amazona migrated between whichever was paying better before being fazed out on the final day of 2011, women's pro wrestling only remaining a fixture of independent promotions such as EWO.
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Pretty much any woman who wrestles could qualify as an ActionGirl, and even non-wrestlers can have their moments. Specific examples include:
* Some of the earliest examples were Nancy Hanks in the early 1800s, who in hooking lore was known to make locals money when they bet visiting men couldn't beat her in wrestling matches and Josie Wahlford, who became the first recognized professional wrestling World Champion on record in the 1890s.
* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of All Japan Womens Pro Wrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division.
* The Mexican national women's title has existed since at least the days of Chabela/Isabel Romero and Irma Gonzales in 1958. It went on to be defended in several promotions around the country, though it wasn't officially recognized by the Mexican Box Y Wrestle Comision until Reyna Gallegos's reign in 1986 when they lifted Mexico City's ban on women's wrestling. Wrestling/{{CMLL}} continued to recognize it even after establishing its own World Women's division around Wrestling/BullNakano and Xóchitl Hamada in 1992.
* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at Dreamslam 1). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
* In 1983, The Wrestling/WorldWrestlingFederation cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Jumping Bomb Angels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive period when Madusa defected to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
* While Capitol Sports Promotions had a women's division since the mid 1980s with memorable matches from respectable champions such as Wendi Richter and Monster Ripper, while Puerto Rican women had established themselves on both sides of the pacific long before that, a Puetro Rican woman had not broken out as a pro wrestling star in Puerto Rico itself until La Tigresa won the belt in 1992. As a {{face}} she enjoyed a five year reign and as a {{heel}} was tough enough to quickly recover from a ShovelStrike delivered by Eddie Colon. Despite inspiring a fearsome pool of women wrestlers to choose from, the collective women's division of the major promotions was inactive for eight years following Tigresa's 1998 arrest and then metaphorically bounced between the World Wrestling Council and IWA Puerto Rico for half a decade as women like Genesis and La Amazona migrated between whichever was paying better before being fazed out on the final day of 2011, women's pro wrestling only remaining a fixture of independent promotions such as EWO.
* Due to circumstances surrounding the NWA and WWF women's titles, as well as the gradual decline of the AWA, the most well known women wrestlers of the USA in the mid to late 1980s typically competed for Wrestling/{{GLOW}}. Much of the roster had signed on to use it as a stepping stone to further their acting careers but the employment of trainer Mando Guerrero ensured wrestlers would take the deliberately {{camp}} promotion as seriously as possible. Though she was never a title holder of any kind, TheFace of GLOW was Mountain Fiji.
* While [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] is best know for its [[GarbageWrestling violent bouts]], it was also praised for the wider variety of match types it featured on a card. And during the 1990s, the most famous women wrestlers in Japan, after AJW/Zenjo anyway, were in FMW. Particularly Combat Toyoda, who became their first champion at the start of the decade, and Megumi Kudo, who was rejected from Zenjo for failing to progress as a wrestler but made the most of a second chance, defying critics who claimed she was [[BeautyIsBad only being pushed for her looks]] by bleeding for her new home promotion, becoming FMW's top draw when founder Atsushi Onita was absent and taking part in Japan's first mixed tag team match with Ricky Fuji against FMW's [[StuckInTheirShadow less popular founder]] Tarzan Goto [[BattleCouple and his wife]], Despina Montagas.
* With women's pro wrestling in the United States not being in the best of states, the PGWA opened up in 1992, building itself around former NWA Word Women's Champion Sue Greene, promoting itself with longer matches between women than the five minutes that were standard at the time and raising awareness of the "action girls", as TV Tropes would call them, across the pro wrestling landscape through it's magazine, ''Lady Sports''. In particular it was known for bringing in 'Girls' from Mexico, mostly from LLF in Monterrey but also Wrestling/{{CMLL}} valet Angelica, who would wrestle for WWF/E as Wrestling/{{Lita}} and from the UK, mostly from Pippa L'vinn's Wrestling Factory but also Frontier Wrestling Alliance rookie [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Nikita]], who would go onto Wrestling/{{TNA}} as Winter.
* As they were wont to do, WCW imitated the WWF, bringing in Akira Hokuto and Toshie Uematsu from the Japanese promotion GAEA to start its own women's divisions. Unfortunately for viewers in the United States, the women in those divisions competed almost exclusively in Japan.
* Wrestling/{{AAA}} established the Reina de Reinas Title in 1999 during the ongoing campaign the Moreno [[WrestlingFamily family]] (Esther and Rossy in this case) waged against Xóchitl Hamada. Their World Mixed Tag Team titles were established in 2003, requiring units to consist of both a woman and a man, the major founders being Lady Apache, Tiffany and Faby Apache(Electoshock, Chessman and Gran Apache being the male halves). While Japan was still seen as the place to go for most wrestlers, women included, between these and CMLL's divisions Mexico had the highest profile women's matches of the 2000s and 2010s after GAEA and All Japan Women's closed their doors in 2005. In 2012, CMLL gave viewers the best of both by partnering with joshi fed REINA to create two new international divisions built around Ray and Leon.
* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, Heidi Lovelace, the first female to win Chikara's Young Lion Cup and Princess Kimberlee, their first female Grand Champion.
* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, [[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wresting/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
* In 2004, IWA Mid-South established a women's division alongside NWA Midwest based on the belief fans wanted more from women in wrestling besides pretty faces. Wrestling/MsChif, Wrestling/DaizeeHaze, Mickie Knuckles and The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew set the new standard, treating fans usually to technical and occasionally [[GarbageWrestling very violent]] matches but after the collapse of All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling and GAEA in 2005, there was an incentive to do more and a dedicated women's promotion in the United States called Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Women Athletes started up with the mission statement of increasing the respect for women's wrestling on an international level. To this end the Canadian Ninjas were born, The Seven Star Sisters proved there was still plenty of talent on the imploded Joshi scene, The Australian Pink Ladies [[TookALevelInBadass progressed from jobbers to main eventers]] and the UK's Knight Dynasty nearly caused a riot. Similar promotions followed in SHIMMER's wake such as ''WILD Wrestling'', while [[Wrestling/{{WSU}} Wrestling Superstars Uncensored]] was {{retool}}ed into an all women promotion and Absolute Intense Wrestling started its "{{Girls Night Out|Episode}}" shows with specific intent to "beat SHIMMER at it's own game".
* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by ODB during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, Wrestling/{{Emma}}, Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "new" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America.
* In 2013, the World Wrestling League began showcasing women's wrestlers from the aforementioned NWA, AAA and CMLL, as well US mainland based Pro Wrestling Revolution, U Know Pro and the Bolivia based New Xtreme Order. In 2015, it would give the Puerto Rican majors their own women's title again with the Diosas division, initially a false start with former WWC women's champion La Morena then a ''slightly'' more successful attempt with a woman who had been present during much of their collaboration with the other promotions, Wrestling/IvelisseVelez.
* One noticeable trend that immediately set Wrestling/LuchaUnderground apart from the established wrestling shows of US national TV during 2014 was a much higher frequency of women who regularly traded holds and blows with men(a trait inherited from AAA and Perros Del Mal Producciones). Despite not having a proper women's division, Ivelisse Velez was a third of their first champion trios team(which also lead to a {{subver|tedtrope}}sion, as [[GameBreakingInjury a broken ankle]] forced her to sit on the sidelines during much of their reign and her attempt [[ICanStillFight to fight on crutches]] led to them to losing the titles, though they would be regained after Velez recovered)
* Hard-hitting matches featuring an increasing range of badass female talent frequently take place on [[Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} ENDVR shows]]. The first time a women’s match featured on a main chapter show was the second night of Super Strong Style 16 2015 – No Disqualification, Jinny vs Pollyanna, a match that featured frequent use of weapons and finished with one of the competitors being put through a table. It was extremely well-received, getting a standing ovation, and was voted one of the ten best Progress matches of the year by fans.
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* Some of the earliest examples were Nancy Hanks in the early 1800s, who in hooking lore was known to make locals money when they bet visiting men couldn't beat her in wrestling matches and Josie Wahlford, who became the first recognized professional wrestling World Champion on record in the 1890s.
* When Mildred Burke was forced out of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, she took her own WWWA promotion on tour over seas, particularly in Australia and Japan, where even after the collapse of the WWWA itself the efforts of All Japan Womens Pro Wrestling made its title belts more prestigious than the NWA Women's equivalents for a time. But even though they were eventually eclipsed in popularity, the NWA still had its share of capable athletes, with Burke's successor June Byers being considered one of the toughest of all time and going on to establish the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation's World Women's division.
* The Mexican national women's title has existed since at least the days of Chabela/Isabel Romero and Irma Gonzales in 1958. It went on to be defended in several promotions around the country, though it wasn't officially recognized by the Mexican Box Y Wrestle Comision until Reyna Gallegos's reign in 1986 when they lifted Mexico City's ban on women's wrestling. Wrestling/{{CMLL}} continued to recognize it even after establishing its own World Women's division around Wrestling/BullNakano and Xóchitl Hamada in 1992.
* Many women's wrestling fans regard Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling in early-to-mid 90s as the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Crowning Era of Awesome]] for women's professional wrestling, with stars such as Wrestling/ManamiToyota, Wrestling/AjaKong, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Kyoko Inoue at the top of their game, and several contenders for "best women's match of all time" (including Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada's [[HumiliatingWager hair vs hair]] match, Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw, and Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori at Dreamslam 1). AJW's 80s era tends to be considered the runner-up, with the Crush Gals (Wrestling/LionessAsuka and Chigusa Nagayo) generating heat comparable to Wrestling/HulkHogan at the same time. One can't forget the first native stars really get over to the point of being household names though, The Beauty Pair in the 1970s.
* In 1983, The Wrestling/WorldWrestlingFederation cut all ties with the National Wrestling Alliance and {{ret|con}}roactively established its own, separate women's division, and women's TagTeam division, the former of which quickly hit its peak in 1984 with Wrestling/WendiRichter as champion and de facto [[TheFace face]], then went on a gradual decline after she was screwed out of the title until the belt was retired following Rockin Robin's reign in 1990. The tag team division peaked with the Jumping Bomb Angels but was retired a year earlier due to an unauthorized title change to the Glamour Girls. A later attempt to revive the singles division around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and several talents from All Japan Women's Wrestling fell short and lead to another inactive period when Madusa defected to Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was the first proper ActionGirl in the World Wrestling Federation following this second period of dormancy. She was introduced as a bodyguard for Wrestling/TripleH and actively competed in the men's division, even capturing the Intercontinental title three times. She was also the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring tournament and even became number 1 contender to the WWF Championship. Technically there were others in the interrim such as Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}}, who was known for competing in plenty of intergender matches (she even won her second Women's title from a man, don't ask) and went on to briefly hold the Cruiserweight title, but the time period between Madusa and Chyna was characterized primarily by panties and MudWrestling. There was also Wrestling/{{Sable}}, who wasn't much of a ''wrestler'' but did power bomb a man, which might be enough to qualify as an action girl.
* While Capitol Sports Promotions had a women's division since the mid 1980s with memorable matches from respectable champions such as Wendi Richter and Monster Ripper, while Puerto Rican women had established themselves on both sides of the pacific long before that, a Puetro Rican woman had not broken out as a pro wrestling star in Puerto Rico itself until La Tigresa won the belt in 1992. As a {{face}} she enjoyed a five year reign and as a {{heel}} was tough enough to quickly recover from a ShovelStrike delivered by Eddie Colon. Despite inspiring a fearsome pool of women wrestlers to choose from, the collective women's division of the major promotions was inactive for eight years following Tigresa's 1998 arrest and then metaphorically bounced between the World Wrestling Council and IWA Puerto Rico for half a decade as women like Genesis and La Amazona migrated between whichever was paying better before being fazed out on the final day of 2011, women's pro wrestling only remaining a fixture of independent promotions such as EWO.
* Due to circumstances surrounding the NWA and WWF women's titles, as well as the gradual decline of the AWA, the most well known women wrestlers of the USA in the mid to late 1980s typically competed for Wrestling/{{GLOW}}. Much of the roster had signed on to use it as a stepping stone to further their acting careers but the employment of trainer Mando Guerrero ensured wrestlers would take the deliberately {{camp}} promotion as seriously as possible. Though she was never a title holder of any kind, TheFace of GLOW was Mountain Fiji.
* While [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] is best know for its [[GarbageWrestling violent bouts]], it was also praised for the wider variety of match types it featured on a card. And during the 1990s, the most famous women wrestlers in Japan, after AJW/Zenjo anyway, were in FMW. Particularly Combat Toyoda, who became their first champion at the start of the decade, and Megumi Kudo, who was rejected from Zenjo for failing to progress as a wrestler but made the most of a second chance, defying critics who claimed she was [[BeautyIsBad only being pushed for her looks]] by bleeding for her new home promotion, becoming FMW's top draw when founder Atsushi Onita was absent and taking part in Japan's first mixed tag team match with Ricky Fuji against FMW's [[StuckInTheirShadow less popular founder]] Tarzan Goto [[BattleCouple and his wife]], Despina Montagas.
* With women's pro wrestling in the United States not being in the best of states, the PGWA opened up in 1992, building itself around former NWA Word Women's Champion Sue Greene, promoting itself with longer matches between women than the five minutes that were standard at the time and raising awareness of the "action girls", as TV Tropes would call them, across the pro wrestling landscape through it's magazine, ''Lady Sports''. In particular it was known for bringing in 'Girls' from Mexico, mostly from LLF in Monterrey but also Wrestling/{{CMLL}} valet Angelica, who would wrestle for WWF/E as Wrestling/{{Lita}} and from the UK, mostly from Pippa L'vinn's Wrestling Factory but also Frontier Wrestling Alliance rookie [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Nikita]], who would go onto Wrestling/{{TNA}} as Winter.
* As they were wont to do, WCW imitated the WWF, bringing in Akira Hokuto and Toshie Uematsu from the Japanese promotion GAEA to start its own women's divisions. Unfortunately for viewers in the United States, the women in those divisions competed almost exclusively in Japan.
* Wrestling/{{AAA}} established the Reina de Reinas Title in 1999 during the ongoing campaign the Moreno [[WrestlingFamily family]] (Esther and Rossy in this case) waged against Xóchitl Hamada. Their World Mixed Tag Team titles were established in 2003, requiring units to consist of both a woman and a man, the major founders being Lady Apache, Tiffany and Faby Apache(Electoshock, Chessman and Gran Apache being the male halves). While Japan was still seen as the place to go for most wrestlers, women included, between these and CMLL's divisions Mexico had the highest profile women's matches of the 2000s and 2010s after GAEA and All Japan Women's closed their doors in 2005. In 2012, CMLL gave viewers the best of both by partnering with joshi fed REINA to create two new international divisions built around Ray and Leon.
* When Wrestling/{{Chikara}} was starting out, it experimented with an all women's sister promotion called Kiryoku Pro(Which was [[SeriesMascot represented]] in Chikara proper by Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Sumie Sakai). When that and nothing else panned out it was decided that there would no longer be any practical distinction between men and women in the promotion. Among some of the breakouts under this direction are Wrestling/SaraDelRey, the first woman to win a Chikara Torneo Cibernetico, Heidi Lovelace, the first female to win Chikara's Young Lion Cup and Princess Kimberlee, their first female Grand Champion.
* Around 2002-ish WWE began making their women's division more about athleticism than eye candy and 2003 was definitely the peak of the women's division with the cream of the crop being Wrestling/TrishStratus, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, [[Characters/WWEDivas Nidia]], [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]], Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wresting/CarleneMoore Jazz]], and Wrestling/GailKim. Sadly, this didn't last. Later examples on WWE programming include Wrestling/BethPhoenix (has also competed in the Royal Rumble), Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidheart}}, Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Layla}}, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/EveTorres and Wrestling/AJLee, though with the second Divasearch of 2004, women's wrestling wasn't treated as a priority by the company.
* In 2004, IWA Mid-South established a women's division alongside NWA Midwest based on the belief fans wanted more from women in wrestling besides pretty faces. Wrestling/MsChif, Wrestling/DaizeeHaze, Mickie Knuckles and The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew set the new standard, treating fans usually to technical and occasionally [[GarbageWrestling very violent]] matches but after the collapse of All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling and GAEA in 2005, there was an incentive to do more and a dedicated women's promotion in the United States called Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Women Athletes started up with the mission statement of increasing the respect for women's wrestling on an international level. To this end the Canadian Ninjas were born, The Seven Star Sisters proved there was still plenty of talent on the imploded Joshi scene, The Australian Pink Ladies [[TookALevelInBadass progressed from jobbers to main eventers]] and the UK's Knight Dynasty nearly caused a riot. Similar promotions followed in SHIMMER's wake such as ''WILD Wrestling'', while [[Wrestling/{{WSU}} Wrestling Superstars Uncensored]] was {{retool}}ed into an all women promotion and Absolute Intense Wrestling started its "{{Girls Night Out|Episode}}" shows with specific intent to "beat SHIMMER at it's own game".
* A corollary to lackluster women's divisions usually found in WWE is the praise generated by those of found in a couple WWE farm leagues. The Ohio Valley Women's title did not have prestigious origins, basically being willed into existence by ODB during 2006, but many of the wrestlers who competed for it became staples of SHIMMER and went on to make appearances in France and Japan. [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] did not burst out of the WWE bubble like OVW before and initially offered up the barely trained Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} but NXT Women's division became a highly praised part of the programme, boasting kickass girls such as Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/SummerRae, Wrestling/{{Emma}}, Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Wrestling/SashaBanks, and Wrestling/{{Charlotte}}.
* After failing to secure the World Women's title from the NWA, Wrestling/{{TNA}} created its own knockouts division in 2007, which saw the returns of Gail Kim after being rejected for not fitting into WWE's "new" direction and former WWWA Singles Champion [[strike:Amazing]] [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] to national television. TNA quickly backed up their claim to have the best women's wrestling as far as the USA majors were concerned, especially when it came to quality on a consistent basis and could even, ever so briefly, compete with AAA and CMLL for claim of the best national division in North America.
* In 2013, the World Wrestling League began showcasing women's wrestlers from the aforementioned NWA, AAA and CMLL, as well US mainland based Pro Wrestling Revolution, U Know Pro and the Bolivia based New Xtreme Order. In 2015, it would give the Puerto Rican majors their own women's title again with the Diosas division, initially a false start with former WWC women's champion La Morena then a ''slightly'' more successful attempt with a woman who had been present during much of their collaboration with the other promotions, Wrestling/IvelisseVelez.
* One noticeable trend that immediately set Wrestling/LuchaUnderground apart from the established wrestling shows of US national TV during 2014 was a much higher frequency of women who regularly traded holds and blows with men(a trait inherited from AAA and Perros Del Mal Producciones). Despite not having a proper women's division, Ivelisse Velez was a third of their first champion trios team(which also lead to a {{subver|tedtrope}}sion, as [[GameBreakingInjury a broken ankle]] forced her to sit on the sidelines during much of their reign and her attempt [[ICanStillFight to fight on crutches]] led to them to losing the titles, though they would be regained after Velez recovered)
* Hard-hitting matches featuring an increasing range of badass female talent frequently take place on [[Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} ENDVR shows]]. The first time a women’s match featured on a main chapter show was the second night of Super Strong Style 16 2015 – No Disqualification, Jinny vs Pollyanna, a match that featured frequent use of weapons and finished with one of the competitors being put through a table. It was extremely well-received, getting a standing ovation, and was voted one of the ten best Progress matches of the year by fans.
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