Women's professional wrestling

[2] In addition to Shine, Rise Wrestling is another one of Shimmer's sister promotions and was founded as a developmental program for the latter company.

In WWE, female professional wrestlers are members of one of the promotion's four women's divisions who compete in both singles competition and tag teams.

The inaugural champions were The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Sasha Banks & Bayley) who defeated The IIconics (Peyton Royce & Billie Kay), The Riot Squad (Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan), Nia Jax & Tamina, Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville and Naomi & Carmella at the 2019 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view.

[5] At Hard To Kill, Fire N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz) won a tournament to become the tag team champions.

[6][7] ROH's has sporadically featured women's wrestling matches at its shows, dating back to a former working relationship with Shimmer.

NXT TakeOver: Respect, held on October 7, 2015, saw then-NXT Women's Champion Bayley defend her title against Sasha Banks in a 30–minute Iron Man match in the main event.

A new WWE Women's Championship was unveiled and contested at WrestleMania 32 on April 3, 2016, between then-Divas Champion Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match.

The Women's Evolution would culminate at WrestleMania 35 in 2019, where Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, and Ronda Rousey would compete in a Winner Takes All triple threat match for the Raw and SmackDown Women's championships in what would be the first time that female superstars would main event WWE's flagship event.

Nikki and Brie Bella, twin sisters who were inducted into WWEs Hall of Fame is 2021, came out of retirement for 2022 Women's Royal Rumble.

[10] Promotions such as the Naked Women's Wrestling League showcased nude females "battling" in the ring for titillation.

AJW's first major star was Mach Fumiake in 1974, followed in 1975 by Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda (the "Beauty Pair").

In the early 1980s, Jaguar Yokota and Devil Masami became the stars of a second wave of women wrestlers who succeeded the glamor-oriented generation defined by the Beauty Pair.

Prominent joshi wrestlers of the 1990s include Manami Toyota, Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto, Cutie Suzuki, Aja Kong, Megumi Kudo, Shinobu Kandori, Kyoko Inoue, Takako Inoue (who is unrelated to Kyoko), Dynamite Kansai, and Mayumi Ozaki.

Stardom, considered the premier joshi promotion in modern times, was purchased by New Japan Pro-Wrestling parent company Bushiroad in 2019.

The Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), or World Wrestling Council, has a women's division.

In 2000, businessman Luciano Alberto Garcia de Luna started an all-woman promotion company called Lucha Libre Femenil (LLF) in Monterrey.

Notable British women wrestlers include: Lady Blossom, Xia Brookside, Nikki Cross, Blair Davenport, Sadie Gibbs, Jamie Hayter, Laura James, Jetta, Klondyke Kate, Katie Lea, Dani Luna, Millie McKenzie, Tegan Nox, Paige, Jemma Palmer, Kay Lee Ray, etc.

In Bolivia, female wrestlers called Fighting Cholitas dress in the traditional clothing of the Aymara people.

In 2023, wrestler Nikki Cross completed her master's degree in history; her dissertation was on the subject of women's wrestling.

A mid-twentieth century poster advertises women wrestlers, primarily Mildred Burke .
Two women wrestlers in the 1950s
The Fabulous Moolah is recognized as having held the WWF Women's Championship for 28 years.
Taylor Wilde (left) and Ayako Hamada (right) with the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship belts in July 2010
Charlotte Flair , the only woman to have held WWE's SmackDown (pictured in 2018), Raw , Divas and NXT Women's Championships
Kaoru "Dump" Matsumoto , one of Japan's leading pro wrestlers in the 1980s
Champion wrestler Aja Kong founded the all-woman promotion Arsion in 1997.
British professional wrestler, Heidi Katrina, in November 2016
Australian wrestler and PWWA co-founder Madison Eagles
Bolivian Fighting Cholitas dressed in Aymara folk costumes