1: First woman to be Intercontinental Champion
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Clearly Chyna’s done a lot of firsts for women in wrestling. Although her entering the Royal Rumble and King Of The Ring were historic, no moment in her career was as important to wrestling history as when she defeated Jeff Jarrett to become to first woman to hold the prestigious WWE Intercontinental Championship.
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She had been feuding with Jarrett for months. and her final victory over him for the championship were important to women everywhere as Jarrett had been playing a very sexist character at the time. The title match itself was a ‘good housekeeping match‘, which was in tune with Jarrett’s kayfabe character at the time.
Side-note: Jarret’s match with Chyna where he lost his championship was his last match before his move to WCW. He had forced Vince McMahon to give him $300,000 the night before the pay per view ‘in order to lose the title cleanly to a woman’.
