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Women in WWE. Throughout its history, women have served in various onscreen roles in the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. In the 1990s, WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) introduced the term Diva to refer to its female performers, including wrestlers, managers or valets, backstage interviewers, or ring announcers .
Mildred Burke (August 5, 1915 – February 18, 1989) was an American professional wrestler. She is overall a three-time women's world champion under different incarnations and recognitions. Burke's heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the NWA World Women's Champion for almost twenty years.
The WWE Women's Championship [1] is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand. It was introduced on April 3, 2016, at WrestleMania 32 to replace the WWE Divas Championship and has a unique title history separate from the original ...
Tamyra Mensah-Stock. Tamyra Mariama Mensah-Stock (born October 11, 1992, née Mensah) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she wrestles on the NXT brand under the name Tyra Mae Steele . Mensah-Stock previously competed in women's freestyle wrestling, winning the gold medal at the Tokyo ...
Lana Kinnear [85] Manager of The Fabulous 4 (Penelope Pink, Miami's Sweet Heat (Lovely Laurie Carlson and Luscious Lindsey Carlson) and Vickie Lynn McCoy) Samantha Smart [86] Kirsten Garner. Manager of the High IQ (The Classmaster and The Disciplinarian) Former protege, GI Jane and Ice Cold. Atty. Sophia Lopez [87]
Chyna [10] (born Joan Marie Laurer; December 27, 1969 – April 17, 2016) was an American professional wrestler, fitness model, bodybuilder, author, actress, adult actress and television personality . She first rose to prominence in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)) in 1997, where she was billed as ...
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W.) is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December 1985) and has continued in various forms after it left television. Colorful characters, strong women, and over-the-top comedy sketches were integral to the series ...
1960s – 1970s. Kaoru "Danpu" Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading pro wrestlers in the 1980s. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (est. 1968) was the dominant joshi puro organization from the 1970s to the 1990s. AJW's first major star was Mach Fumiake in 1974, followed in 1975 by Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda (the "Beauty Pair").