WWE: 11 Attitude Era Women Who Should Be In The Hall Of Fame

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It’s nearly time for WWE to start announcing the 2019 inductees into the Hall of Fame, and I always get anxious to see which woman will be chosen for the special night. That’s because WWE always seems to select just one female inductee, despite the copious amounts of women who have contributed to the company’s success over time and still haven’t been honored.

There are a lot of women from decades past who still deserve an induction to the WWE Hall of Fame; the absence of Miss Elizabeth, for example, really hurts.

But the Attitude era, specifically, was home to some of the industry’s most influential women. Considering WWE’s reputation for sexist stories and characters during that time that might be hard to believe, but there’s a seemingly endless list of deserving women from the wildest period in wrestling still being left out in the cold.

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Molly Holly

There’s a reason Molly Holly is seen as one of the most underrated performers in the history of women’s wrestling. Molly – whose real name is Nora Greenwald – has remained largely out of the public eye since retiring from the ring nearly fifteen years ago, but her fans and peers remember her as a wrestling machine in her heyday.

Having joined the World Wrestling Federation during the Attitude era, it was really a coin flip whether or not she’d ever get the opportunity to show her true potential as a professional wrestler.

The era served as a conflicting amalgamation of representation of women in sports; while much of the time women were used as eye candy, the Attitude era also played host to what is known as the “Golden Age” of women’s wrestling. Molly would go on to become one of the most pivotal parts of that moment in time.

Molly Holly debuted as the “cousin” of Hardcore and Crash Holly and would spend the next couple of years as a bit of a comedy act, even putting on a cape, joining the Hurricane and calling herself Might Molly for a time. However, eventually she would lose the smile and every time we saw her strut to the ring with clenched fists and an angry grimace we knew business was about to pick up.

Without a doubt, Molly Holly and her contemporaries helped influence an entire generation of women to get into pro wrestling, and we see many of those women competing in today’s awesome WWE women’s division.

While Molly wasn’t always a marquee star like Trish Stratus or Lita, it was her raw talent and ability to make everyone she wrestled look like a star that ensured she would be remembered. The fact that Molly Holly is yet not in the WWE Hall of Fame as 2019 rolls in is a crime.