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

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The Kat

As I mentioned, the Attitude era was a time when some women were respected as athletes, but others were used for their sexuality to draw in the straight male demographic. Stacy “The Kat” Carter was the epitome of the latter perspective on women’s wrestling in the late 1990s, but she also managed to leave behind some of the era’s most memorable moments.

I guess it’s up in the air whether those moments are seen as great, edgy television or outright offensive, but there’s no denying Stacy Carter owned that role, at least once she had some time to sink her teeth into it.

Carter started with the WWF at the height of Jeff Jarrett’s run as a sexist jerk, joining Jarrett and his on-screen girlfriend Miss Debra as an associate. She was known then as Miss Kitty and would be victimized – along with other women, many of whom were not trained for the ring – by Jarrett until Chyna came along to shut him down.

Miss Kitty would then free herself of Jeff Jarrett and become known as The Kat. She won the WWE Women’s Championship and competed in some of the most notoriously trashy matches the company has ever hosted, but she truly seemed to enjoy every minute of it.

The Kat was no athlete and she wasn’t on a feminist mission to change the course of history for women in wrestling, but she gave us plenty of the Attitude era’s most defining moments, and that’s why she’s worthy of a Hall of Fame induction.