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The year 2016 saw the rebirth of women’s wrestling in the WWE. The WWE Divas Championship was cast aside in favor of the WWE Women’s Championship, and although this new championship doesn’t share the same (mostly) outstanding lineage as the one that preceded it, it marked an important change in the way that women were presented by the WWE. The WWE Divas needed to go; they were treated badly by the WWE creative teams, the female demographic was growing, and NXT was proving to the world that the women could be as good as, or even better than, the men. However, WWE couldn’t just delete the division; some care was going to have to be taken to clean up the mess they had made.
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He could see the talent that the women possessed and, more than likely spurred on by his wife, Stephanie McMahon, set about rebuilding the women’s division from the ground up. Women from all over the world entered the NXT scene and began to impress, putting on a variety of fun and athletic contests, each better than the last. Many women benefitted from their exposure on NXT, but Paige is probably the most famous of this initial batch of Superstars that were finally given a stage to show what they could do. She captured the NXT Women’s Championship in 2013 during a championship tournament featuring several very talented women. The tournament drew a lot of attention (as well as more than a few ticket sales) and was helped along by some established Divas on the main roster, such as Tamina Snuka. The fact that the women were now more respected in the developmental territories than they were on the main roster’s weekly broadcasts of Raw and SmackDown was beginning to create a buzz among the general audience, and they were beginning to take note. Meanwhile, as NXT continued to build a talented roster with the likes of Emma, Sasha Banks and others, the Divas division of the main roster was being led by AJ Lee.
AJ Lee was the absolute pinnacle of female representation before the official beginning of the revolution in 2015. When she first rose to prominence, she was admittedly engaged in a romantic storyline with Daniel Bryan (stereotypical fare for

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