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* Las Diosas Del Ring, who have been known by many names over the years such as Edecánes de Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, escort luchadors to the ring, inform fans of falls and entertain during downtime. Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro would have a similar group, The Nitro Girls and [[Wrestling/NewWorldorder nWo]] had an EvilCounterpart group when it was trying to takeover Wrestling/{{WCW}}\[[VillainBasedFranchise become it's own promotion.]] Wrestling/{{AAA}} also had a sign carrier group, which it notoriously put [[Wrestling/SarahStock Dark Angel]] in after she lost her mask in LLF. She jumped ship to CMLL when it wanted to rebuild it's women's divisions and offered more opportunities to wrestle.
* Wrestling/MissElizabeth was by far the best known of the fanservice types, although by today's standards she's closer to TokenWholesome. [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Sunny]] raised the bar on what was considered to be fanservice, and then Wrestling/{{Sable}} pretty much codified the [[Characters/WWEDivas "Diva"]] archetype.
* WEW, Women's Extreme Wrestling, was both affectionately and derisively known as [[FanNickname Women's Erotic Wrestling]]. Wrestling wise, it has respectable alumni to boast about. April Hunter, Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, Lexie Fyfe, [[Wrestling/DaffneyUnger Lucy Furr]], Cindy Rogers, [[Wrestling/MickieJames Alexis Laree]], Sumie Sakai and Wrestling/{{Jazz}} are just a sample and they competed in everything from the expected one falls to [[GarbageWrestling the diving table breakers]] but WEW also hired a slew of playboy models and strippers with no wrestling ability who were only there to titillate the audience and, occasionally, give a heel [[KickTheDog an easy target to cripple.]] (which would lead to a baby face having to save or avenge them)
* True to its acronym, Wrestling/{{TNA}} Wrestling had dancing women in cages to fulfill this role when they started out. Truer to what the letters actually stand for, some wrestlers took exception to it, forming "[[PowerStable Bitch Slap]]" in an effort to get rid of them. It did not work but TNA ended up dumping them anyway, apparently losing interest in a regular female presence. Even as women gradually crept back into prominence, this trope was not really in play since the company was aiming for a more "family friendly" image on Fox Sports Net...but then came a quartet of 'em calling themselves Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople - Wrestling/VelvetSky, Wrestling/MadisonRayne, Lacey Von Erich, and Wrestling/AngelinaLove. Impact had moved to Spike TV so "family friendly" went back out the window; fanservice was in.
* TNA also offered a subversion, at least a subversion in theory. A battle royal for a company contract where everyone wore the same outfit and the winner would be the only person ''not'' to be stripped down to their undergarments. So yes, lots of woman flesh but the person who stuck around would (in theory) be showing the least.
* Between an annual [[Wrestling/WWEDivaSearch diva search]] lasting from 2003 to 2007 bringing in a slew of models and an "exhibitionist" on their so called {{revival}} of Wrestling/{{ECW}}, WWE used to be loaded with these types. Similarly to TNA's time with Fox Sports Net, WWE turning ''Monday Night Raw'' and its pay per view programing PG reduced their reliance on this trope. But then from NXT came Wrestling/{{Aksana}}, whose presence on Smackdown was always preceded by a {{sexophone}} before she arrived and attempted to seduce her boss with with speeches loaded with innuendo, some of it being accidental due to a limited grasp of English, a lot of it not.
* TNA had another subversion in [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Alissa Flash]], who would come out to the ring in a half unzipped leather jacket, and, during the course of her match, [[TheTease zip it back up]]. Sounds lame? Well it's easy to think that just reading about it but the reactions she got from crowds indicated [[AllMenArePerverts it was working very well.]]
* After Wrestling/ChristyHemme retired from wrestling and became a ring announcer, the camera performed a long, slow pan up the length of her body as she introduced a matches. She normally wears something skimpy anyway.
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* Las Diosas Del Ring, who have been known by many names over the years such as Edecánes de Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, escort luchadors to the ring, inform fans of falls and entertain during downtime. Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro would have a similar group, The Nitro Girls and [[Wrestling/NewWorldorder nWo]] had an EvilCounterpart group when it was trying to takeover Wrestling/{{WCW}}\[[VillainBasedFranchise become it's own promotion.]] Wrestling/{{AAA}} also had a sign carrier group, which it notoriously put [[Wrestling/SarahStock Dark Angel]] in after she lost her mask in LLF. She jumped ship to CMLL when it wanted to rebuild it's women's divisions and offered more opportunities to wrestle.
* Wrestling/MissElizabeth was by far the best known of the fanservice types, although by today's standards she's closer to TokenWholesome. [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Sunny]] raised the bar on what was considered to be fanservice, and then Wrestling/{{Sable}} pretty much codified the [[Characters/WWEDivas "Diva"]] archetype.
* WEW, Women's Extreme Wrestling, was both affectionately and derisively known as [[FanNickname Women's Erotic Wrestling]]. Wrestling wise, it has respectable alumni to boast about. April Hunter, Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, Lexie Fyfe, [[Wrestling/DaffneyUnger Lucy Furr]], Cindy Rogers, [[Wrestling/MickieJames Alexis Laree]], Sumie Sakai and Wrestling/{{Jazz}} are just a sample and they competed in everything from the expected one falls to [[GarbageWrestling the diving table breakers]] but WEW also hired a slew of playboy models and strippers with no wrestling ability who were only there to titillate the audience and, occasionally, give a heel [[KickTheDog an easy target to cripple.]] (which would lead to a baby face having to save or avenge them)
* True to its acronym, Wrestling/{{TNA}} Wrestling had dancing women in cages to fulfill this role when they started out. Truer to what the letters actually stand for, some wrestlers took exception to it, forming "[[PowerStable Bitch Slap]]" in an effort to get rid of them. It did not work but TNA ended up dumping them anyway, apparently losing interest in a regular female presence. Even as women gradually crept back into prominence, this trope was not really in play since the company was aiming for a more "family friendly" image on Fox Sports Net...but then came a quartet of 'em calling themselves Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople - Wrestling/VelvetSky, Wrestling/MadisonRayne, Lacey Von Erich, and Wrestling/AngelinaLove. Impact had moved to Spike TV so "family friendly" went back out the window; fanservice was in.
* TNA also offered a subversion, at least a subversion in theory. A battle royal for a company contract where everyone wore the same outfit and the winner would be the only person ''not'' to be stripped down to their undergarments. So yes, lots of woman flesh but the person who stuck around would (in theory) be showing the least.
* Between an annual [[Wrestling/WWEDivaSearch diva search]] lasting from 2003 to 2007 bringing in a slew of models and an "exhibitionist" on their so called {{revival}} of Wrestling/{{ECW}}, WWE used to be loaded with these types. Similarly to TNA's time with Fox Sports Net, WWE turning ''Monday Night Raw'' and its pay per view programing PG reduced their reliance on this trope. But then from NXT came Wrestling/{{Aksana}}, whose presence on Smackdown was always preceded by a {{sexophone}} before she arrived and attempted to seduce her boss with with speeches loaded with innuendo, some of it being accidental due to a limited grasp of English, a lot of it not.
* TNA had another subversion in [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Alissa Flash]], who would come out to the ring in a half unzipped leather jacket, and, during the course of her match, [[TheTease zip it back up]]. Sounds lame? Well it's easy to think that just reading about it but the reactions she got from crowds indicated [[AllMenArePerverts it was working very well.]]
* After Wrestling/ChristyHemme retired from wrestling and became a ring announcer, the camera performed a long, slow pan up the length of her body as she introduced a matches. She normally wears something skimpy anyway.
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* Las Diosas Del Ring, who have been known by many names over the years such as Edecánes de Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, escort luchadors to the ring, inform fans of falls and entertain during downtime. Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro would have a similar group, The Nitro Girls and [[Wrestling/NewWorldorder nWo]] had an EvilCounterpart group when it was trying to takeover Wrestling/{{WCW}}\[[VillainBasedFranchise become it's own promotion.]] Wrestling/{{AAA}} also had a sign carrier group, which it notoriously put [[Wrestling/SarahStock Dark Angel]] in after she lost her mask in LLF. She jumped ship to CMLL when it wanted to rebuild it's women's divisions and offered more opportunities to wrestle.
* Wrestling/MissElizabeth was by far the best known of the fanservice types, although by today's standards she's closer to TokenWholesome. [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Sunny]] raised the bar on what was considered to be fanservice, and then Wrestling/{{Sable}} pretty much codified the [[Characters/WWEDivas "Diva"]] archetype.
* WEW, Women's Extreme Wrestling, was both affectionately and derisively known as [[FanNickname Women's Erotic Wrestling]]. Wrestling wise, it has respectable alumni to boast about. April Hunter, Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, Lexie Fyfe, [[Wrestling/DaffneyUnger Lucy Furr]], Cindy Rogers, [[Wrestling/MickieJames Alexis Laree]], Sumie Sakai and Wrestling/{{Jazz}} are just a sample and they competed in everything from the expected one falls to [[GarbageWrestling the diving table breakers]] but WEW also hired a slew of playboy models and strippers with no wrestling ability who were only there to titillate the audience and, occasionally, give a heel [[KickTheDog an easy target to cripple.]] (which would lead to a baby face having to save or avenge them)
* True to its acronym, Wrestling/{{TNA}} Wrestling had dancing women in cages to fulfill this role when they started out. Truer to what the letters actually stand for, some wrestlers took exception to it, forming "[[PowerStable Bitch Slap]]" in an effort to get rid of them. It did not work but TNA ended up dumping them anyway, apparently losing interest in a regular female presence. Even as women gradually crept back into prominence, this trope was not really in play since the company was aiming for a more "family friendly" image on Fox Sports Net...but then came a quartet of 'em calling themselves Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople - Wrestling/VelvetSky, Wrestling/MadisonRayne, Lacey Von Erich, and Wrestling/AngelinaLove. Impact had moved to Spike TV so "family friendly" went back out the window; fanservice was in.
* TNA also offered a subversion, at least a subversion in theory. A battle royal for a company contract where everyone wore the same outfit and the winner would be the only person ''not'' to be stripped down to their undergarments. So yes, lots of woman flesh but the person who stuck around would (in theory) be showing the least.
* Between an annual [[Wrestling/WWEDivaSearch diva search]] lasting from 2003 to 2007 bringing in a slew of models and an "exhibitionist" on their so called {{revival}} of Wrestling/{{ECW}}, WWE used to be loaded with these types. Similarly to TNA's time with Fox Sports Net, WWE turning ''Monday Night Raw'' and its pay per view programing PG reduced their reliance on this trope. But then from NXT came Wrestling/{{Aksana}}, whose presence on Smackdown was always preceded by a {{sexophone}} before she arrived and attempted to seduce her boss with with speeches loaded with innuendo, some of it being accidental due to a limited grasp of English, a lot of it not.
* TNA had another subversion in [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Alissa Flash]], who would come out to the ring in a half unzipped leather jacket, and, during the course of her match, [[TheTease zip it back up]]. Sounds lame? Well it's easy to think that just reading about it but the reactions she got from crowds indicated [[AllMenArePerverts it was working very well.]]
* After Wrestling/ChristyHemme retired from wrestling and became a ring announcer, the camera performed a long, slow pan up the length of her body as she introduced a matches. She normally wears something skimpy anyway.
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