History YMMV / WOWWomenOfWrestling

** Kandi Krush, who was heavily featured in a lengthy and blatant retread of Princess Aussie's previous feud with Siren the Voodoo Doll and co. It got so bad that an overlong pretaped segment involving her trying to get her boxing gloves back from them in a haunted house was featured in full during one episode, causing a battle royal to determine the new WOW champion to only be shown in closing. After the storyline concluded, she was gradually scaled back on, mostly fighting newcomers to the promotion before turning heel in 2024.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Nikkita Lyons of ''NXT 2.0'' wrestled for the 2018 incarnation, using the ringnames [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Faith, Lioness and Faith the Lioness]].

** Kandi Krush, who was heavily featured in a lengthy and blatant retread of Princess Aussie's previous feud with Siren the Voodoo Doll and co. It got so bad that an overlong pretaped segment involving her trying to get her boxing gloves back from them in a haunted house was featured in full during one episode, causing a battle royal to determine the new WOW champion to only be shown in closing. Fortunately her being so heavily featured abated after the storyline concluded and she hasn't been featured nearly as much.

** Kandi Krush, who was heavily featured in a lengthy and blatant retread of Princess Aussie's previous feud with Siren the Voodoo Doll and co. It got so bad that an overlong pretaped segment involving her trying to get her boxing gloves back from them in a haunted house was featured in full during one episode, causing a battle royal to determine the new WOW champion to only be shown in closing. Fortunately this abated after the storyline concluded and she hasn't been featured nearly as much.

** Jessie Jones during part of the Creator/{{AXSTV}} seasons, after she introduced short-lived political aspects into her gimmick.

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt. Continued into 2019 with her dodging Jungle Grrl and The Beast via even more ridiculous writing, and became even worse in early 2020 as offscreen stories about her terrible attitude and behavior towards others in WOW started to come out. [[KarmaHoudini None of this stopped her from being the first name announced for the 2022 relaunch,]] though reports soon began to surface of continued trouble backstage, resulting in her [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty being removed as head trainer and from the company as a whole before the first episodes of the relaunch were even filmed.]] The show is largely considered to have improved as a result. A retrospective on the Beast's tenure with WOW even skipped the match where she won the title from Tessa, though Tessa's name was not edited out of commentary during the matches that were shown.

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt. Continued into 2019 with her dodging Jungle Grrl and The Beast via even more ridiculous writing, and became even worse in early 2020 as offscreen stories about her terrible attitude and behavior towards others in WOW started to come out. [[KarmaHoudini None of this stopped her from being the first name announced for the 2022 relaunch,]] though reports soon began to surface of continued trouble backstage, resulting in her [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty being removed as head trainer and from the company as a whole before the first episodes of the relaunch were even filmed.]] A retrospective on the Beast's tenure with WOW even skipped the match where she won the title from Tessa, though Tessa's name was not edited out of commentary during the matches that were shown.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Nikkita Lyons of ''NXT 2.0'' wrestled for the 2012 incarnation, using the ringnames [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Faith, Lioness and Faith the Lioness]].

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt. Continued into 2019 with her dodging Jungle Grrl and The Beast via even more ridiculous writing, and became even worse in early 2020 as offscreen stories about her terrible attitude and behavior towards others in WOW started to come out. [[KarmaHoudini None of this stopped her from being the first name announced for the 2022 relaunch,]] though reports soon began to surface of continued trouble backstage, resulting in her [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty being removed as head trainer and her overall status with the company in doubt before the first episodes of the relaunch were even filmed.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Nikkita Lyons of ''NXT 2.0'' wrestled for the 2012 incarnation, using the ringnames [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Faith, Lioness and Faith the Lioness]].

* EvilIsCool: Beckie The Farmer's Daughter, "The Real Deal" Selina Majors and "The Total Athlete" Roxy Powers aside, a lot of the time the {{Heel}}s were better wrestlers and cooler than the {{Face}}s. Lana Star was an exception, since she was entertaining on the mic but awful in the ring, and was the one character who likely would have made for a better manager than a wrestler.

* TheScrappy: Terri Gold, who was the inaugural WOW Champion and was pushed as the promotion's top {{Face}}, but was utterly hated on the various fan message boards, who called her "Terri [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hogan]]".

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt. Continued into 2019 with her dodging Jungle Grrl and The Beast via even more ridiculous writing, and became even worse in early 2020 as offscreen stories about her terrible attitude and behavior towards others in WOW started to come out. [[KarmaHoudini None of this stopped her from being the first name announced for the 2022 relaunch,]] though reports soon began to surface of continued trouble backstage, resulting in her [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty being removed as head trainer and her overall status with the company in doubt before the first episodes of the relaunch were even filmed.]]

* NarmCharm: It was created by the same guy who created Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, what else would you expect? Its' straight-faced {{Kayfabe}} mentality did not fit in with the hardcore climate of 2000-2001. It did not make huge waves in the heavily saturated market of the mid 2010s either but held its ground the second time around in the more lighthearted, more ring work focused era.

* NarmCharm: It was created by the same guy who created Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, what else would you expect? Its straight-faced {{Kayfabe}} mentality did not fit in with the hardcore climate of 2000-2001. It did not make huge waves in the heavily saturated market of the mid 2010s either but held its ground the second time around in the more lighthearted, more ring work focused era.

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt. Continued into 2019 with her dodging Jungle Grrl and The Beast via even more ridiculous writing, and became even worse in early 2020 as offscreen stories about her terrible attitude and behavior towards others in WOW started to come out. [[KarmaHoudini None of this stopped her from being the first name announced for the 2022 relaunch.]]

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music Of Awesome]]: Caged Heat's theme, which was the only one with lyrics.

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt. Continued into 2019 with her dodging Jungle Grrl and The Beast via even more ridiculous writing, and became even worse in early 2020 as offscreen stories about her terrible attitude and behavior towards others in WOW started to come out.

* EvilIsCool[=/=]RootingForTheEmpire: Beckie The Farmer's Daughter, "The Real Deal" Selina Majors and "The Total Athlete" Roxy Powers aside, a lot of the time the {{Heel}}s were better wrestlers and cooler than the {{Face}}s. Lana Star was an exception, since she was entertaining on the mic but awful in the ring, and was the one character who likely would have made for a better manager than a wrestler.

* HypeBacklash: Despite the original run's train wreck reputation there was buzz about the revival. Jungle Grrrl(as Erica Porter), Delta, Loca and Riot had done well enough on the independent circuit, several more established wrestlers from said circuit were coming in and many new trainees seemed pretty charismatic. Unfortunately the first match between Amber O'Neal, who is considered to be pretty good, and Jungle Grrrl, who is a contender for the best WOW produced turned out to be kind of bad, the new rookies mostly proved to simply be rookies in the ring, and the well known circuit names were not immediately pushed and in fact spent awhile jobbing to the rookies. Once people got over their unrealistic expectations, better matches happened and pushes for the circuit recruits came revived WOW did acquire a regular audience, but a much quieter one.
* NarmCharm[=/=]SoBadItsGood: It was created by the same guy who created Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, what else would you expect? Its straight-faced {{Kayfabe}} mentality did not fit in with the hardcore climate of 2000-2001. It did not make huge waves in the heavily saturated market of the mid 2010s either but held its ground the second time around in the more lighthearted, more ring work focused era.

* HypeBacklash: Despite the original run's train wreck reputation there was buzz about the revival. Jungle Grrrl(as Erica Porter), Delta, Loca and Riot had done well enough on the independent circuit, several more established wrestlers from said circuit were coming in and many new trainees seemed pretty charismatic. Unfortunately the first match between Amber O'Neal, who is considered to be pretty good, and Jungle Grrrl, who is a contender for the best WOW produced turned out to be kind of bad, the new rookies mostly proved to be simply be rookies in the ring, the well known circuit names were not immediately pushed and in fact spent awhile jobbing to the rookies. Once people got over their unrealistic expectations, better matches happened and pushes for the circuit recruits came revived WOW did acquire a regular audience, but a much quieter one.

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in 2018, due to the insane amount of over promotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship belt.

* HypeBacklash: Despite the original run's train wreck reputation there was buzz about the revival. Jungle Grrrl(as Erica Porter), Delta, Loca and Riot had done well enough on the independent circuit, several more established wrestlers from said circuit were coming in and many new trainees seemed pretty charismatic. Unfortunately a match between Amber O'Neal, who is considered to be pretty good, and Jungle Grrrl, who is a contender for the best WOW produced turned out to be kind of bad, the new rookies mostly proved to be no better than that in the ring, the well known circuit names were not immediately pushed. Once people got over these things revived WOW did acquire a regular audience, but a much quieter one.
* NarmCharm[=/=]SoBadItsGood: It was created by the same guy who created Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, what else would you expect? Its straight-faced {{Kayfabe}} mentality did not fit in with the hardcore climate of 2000-2001.

** Wrestling/TessaBlanchard in the 2018 revival, due to the insane amount of overpromotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship.

** [[Wrestling/TessaBlanchard]] in the 2018 revival, due to the insane amount of overpromotion she received (overshadowing everyone else by a lot) and by what some viewed as some of the most ridiculous writing ever to give her the championship.

** Bronco Billie belongs too, due to her admitting to not wanting to work hard to get better. Her superior tag team partner Beckie The Farmer's Daughter became an EnsembleDarkhorse as a result.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Heroic psycho ref Josh Milton, who took a lot of abuse from the wrestlers, and got way over on the message boards as a result.

** Bronco Billie belongs too, due to her admitting to not wanting to work hard to get better.

** Slam Dunk was hated too, due to being the worst wrestler in the promotion.

* EvilIsCool[=/=]RootingForTheEmpire: Beckie The Farmer's Daughter, "The Real Deal" Selina Majors and "The Total Athlete" Roxy Powers aside, a lot of the time the {{Heel}}s were better wrestlers and cooler than the {{Face}}s. Lana Star was an exception, since she was entertaining on the mic but awful in the ring, and was the one character who likely would have made for a better manager than a wrestler.