Ranking All WWE First Time Women's Champions

5. Michelle McCool, WWE Divas Champion

That Butterfly just doesn't float the boat

Introduce in 2008 as a parallel to draw for RAW's women's championship, despite its design it seemed WWE was taking women competitively especially on the blue brand. How wrong fans were, instead of in just two short years the butterfly championship became the de-facto title for the women's division.

A symbol of WWE's horrid usage and representation of dark time in women's wrestling, the championship traded hands between the who's who of glam models; some of which who could barely do a basic throw. It's not an indictment of the women though, more so of WWE's treatment of them. Thankfully at the peak of the Divas revolution, the championship got binned to give way to the women's evolution.

Surprisingly its first champion Michelle McCool actually had proved herself a competent wrestler especially in a class of women unable to keep up. Her lengthy reign set an even tone, unfortunately, buoyed by incompetent reigns rife with injury sending the title sputtering into doom at the advent of the fourth wave of feminism. By then the rabid universe had made the women's division, its designated toilet break. Still, McCool did try, for a moment.