WWE Evolution 2018: Top Ten Most Successful Female Wrestlers

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#1: Charlotte Flair

As a second-generation wrestler, Charlotte first appeared on the scene in WCW along side her father as a teenager.

She debuted in NXT July 2013, and immediately rose to the top. She won her first title, NXT Women’s Championship by way of the tournament finals held at NXT TakeOver in May 2014.

She received Rookie of the Year by PWI in 2014, and joined the ranks of the Four Horsewomen alongside Bayley, Banks, and Lynch.

Charlotte hit the main roster in 2015, along with Lynch and Banks, after a desperate need for a women’s division revolution was acknowledged, and immediately snagged the Divas Championship.

She participated in the first ever Divas Beat the Clock Challenge, and won. She competed in the triple-threat match against Lynch and Banks for the first WWE Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 32, and won again.

She was the first women in WWE to compete in main events of Raw, SmackDown Live, and a pay-per-view. Charlotte and Banks made history together, when their match at the 2016 Hell In A Cell would make them the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event, and the first women to compete in a Hell In A Cell match. Also competing against Banks, the two became the first women to main event Raw in a women’s match since 2004.

Then, again, Banks and Charlotte broke barriers in 2016 by competing in the longest women’s singles match at Roadblock: End of the Line, a 30-minute Iron Man match that lasted 34:45.

Charlotte has held a record-tying seven WWE championships, with eight total reigns: one NXT Women’s Championship, the final Divas Championship, the first and four Raw Women’s Championships, and two SmackDown Women’s Championships. She’s the first and only wrestler to hold all four championships, and is the longest reigning SmackDown Women’s Championship in history.

She’s been named PWI’s 2016 Woman of the Year and 2016 World’s Top Female Pro Wrestler. In 2017, Sports Illustrated named her ranked her 29 out of 50 fittest woman athletes of the year, and she was featured in ESPN Body 10.

Fans and critics can try to diminish Charlotte’s greatness and say she owes it all to her father, but the numbers don’t lie. Charlotte will be after her next title reign, when she faces Lynch at Evolution for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.

The Stats

-Eight title reigns

-Six years of active wrestling in WWE territories

-422 matches recorded

-61.45 percent win record

-39 pay-per-view matches

WWE Evolution 2018 will take place this Sunday, Oct. 28, at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, and will feature women from SmackDown Live, Raw, NXT, NXT UK, and the Mae Young Classic. Tune in to see which women make history next.