10 key women’s matches that have led to the first ever women’s main event at WrestleMania

#5 Asuka vs Ember Moon – NXT Women's Championship Match (NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III, August 2017)

Asuka and Ember Moon deliver one of the best women's matches in WWE history

When the majority of the four horsewomen got called up to the main show in July 2015, there was unquestionably no doubt there was a huge hole in the female roster at NXT. During the same time, Asuka was just starting the longest ever undefeated streak in WWE history, whilst Ember Moon still hadn’t made her in ring debut in the WWE.

Fast forward two years later; Ember Moon became one of the top female wrestlers in NXT whilst Asuka was holding the NXT Women’s Championship for well over a year. Whilst they also had a memorable match at NXT TakeOver: Orlando six months earlier, it was the one at Brooklyn III that sticks out more.

This was easily the match of the night and one of the best ever WWE women’s matches to date, but it also proved that the WWE didn’t put all their hopes in the four horsewomen steering the women’s revolution. This match confirmed that the WWE was investing in more time on other female wrestlers, including ones they were training in the WWE Performance Centre, making it a key match that kept driving the women’s evolution forward.