By Dan Pointer

It’s one of the most maligned and talked about WWE screw ups in recent years. The women’s revolution (then divas’ revolution) got off to a very promising start in 2015, with three of the so called ‘four horsewomen’ being called up to the main roster from NXT. Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks all brought something completely new to Raw and Smackdown that fans had rarely seen outside of Full Sail University.

Then, the tag matches started, endless, pointless tag matches that did absolutely nothing to build the characters of any of the three women and that were clearly just there to stretch out Nikki Bella’s championship reign as long as possible. The three teams of PCB, BAD and the Bella Army seemingly only existed because the WWE creative team couldn’t find a way to implement all of the women at once and it fell completely flat. Fans were quickly losing interest and grew extremely tired of watching Nikki Bella’s title reign close in on AJ Lee’s record.

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However, once the record had come and gone it was clear that Charlotte was the woman who had been chosen to defeat Nikki for the divas’ championship at Night of Champions 2015 and once that happened it injected new life into the women’s division. Then followed a few months of pretty good matches and storylines (Reid Flair name drop aside). We had a truly incredible triple threat match at Wrestlemania and now we’re coming to the end of an amazing back and forth feud between Charlotte and Sasha Banks. That’s before we ever mention the well-balanced women’s division on Smackdown. So it really does beg the question, was the women’s revolution really so bad after all?

Sure, we sat through countless dull moments at the beginning, but as soon as the Divas’ Championship became the Women’s Championship everything changed. Gone are the two minute matches of a few years ago, now we have Hell in a Cell and tables matches, along with well-constructed storylines and characters that don’t make the women come across as bitchy schoolgirls. Then you have to look at some of the more recent NXT call ups from the brand split. Bayley and Alexa Bliss have been the standouts but even then, women like Nia Jax and Carmella are just waiting in the wings for their big opportunity, the amount of roster depth is truly astounding.

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Back to my original question then, has the WWE women’s revolution actually worked? Well it certainly wasn’t helped by idiotic booking in the summer of 2015, but since then it’s matured and now for the first time ever women are considered superstars instead of a separate entity in WWE. They’re the main eventing pay per views and putting on five star matches that are being talked about around the world, whilst still cutting great promos and representing the WWE in the mainstream media. I’d consider that pretty successful, wouldn’t you?