Ranking All WWE First Time Women's Champions

3. The Fabulous Moolah, WWF/WWE Women's Champion

Defined by more than one

Revisionist history adds fascinating elements to how we may perceive older records. In isolation, the women's championship might be on the top of this list despite its maligned treatment through some dark years. Yet as we are ranking the championship according to the initial reign, it is particularly hard to even place it somewhere on the third spot.

This isn't an indictment of Fabulous Moolah. Solely on ring acumen, once more this title would reign at the top if we were to just look at her in-ring accomplishments as the first champion of the division. Sadly her actions outside the ring enforce one to think through whether anything matters at all.

This is because Moolah's heinous acts outside the ring whether one likes it or not affect the very perception of women in the work environment of a typical man's world. That Moohlah who could have been a beacon of women's inspiration decided to act as she did to sell off her own roster of young girls looking up to her, shows how this kind of rampant actions let patriarchy reign in not just wrestling but the world itself in general.

However even then the lineage of the title cannot be denied, marred by the acts of one no matter if she were the first, cannot diminish the efforts of the rest; a cavalcade of legendary women's wrestlers that paved the way. It shines a ray of hope on the idea, that the title does not make the woman at all nor is it made by it, but stands strong through the sands of time.