For wrestling fans that lived through WWE's Attitude Era, it’s crazy to think just how much the world has changed (and yes, that also means some of us were already in high school when Stone Cold was stomping mudholes and walking them dry). More importantly, the style of what was going on with the ladies was vastly different.

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While wrestlers like Trish Stratus and Lita were also incredibly easy on the eyes, no matter how hard they, along with the likes of Jackie, Molly Holly, Chyna, and Luna Vachon were constantly pushed as wrestlers, they were still treated as eye candy, despite the fact that there was already a ton of eye candy on the show with women like Terri or the subject of this article, Stacey Carter, aka The Kat. She didn’t set the women’s division back any more than the next buxom gal, but she also exemplified a lot of what was wrong with the women’s division.

The Kat Debuts In WWE As Miss Kitty

Miss Kitty And Debra McMichael

Miss Kitty debuted during the summer of 1999 as Debra’s assistant. Both ladies were hanging out with Jeff Jarrett at the time. Jarrett was running around blasting whoever he could with a guitar - Moolah and Mae Young, for example, would get laid out, and then Jarrett would apply the Figure Four while his eye candy were screaming at him, trying to convince him to let go. It all led up to Jarrett finally getting his comeuppance at the hands of Chyna in a Good Housekeeping match. Afterwards, Miss Kitty adopted a look more like The Ninth Wonder Of The World and followed her around. She was still was nothing more than vapid eye candy and getting huge pops for being just that. That worked for The Attitude Era, but it was also a very hard stigma to overcome for the women.

The Kat Enjoyed Her Lewd Storylines And Matches

MIss Kitty RTC Cropped

So why doesn’t Terri Runnels get looked down at the way that The Kat does, even though they were both seldom anything more than eye candy, and both were brought in thanks to who they knew in the business (Dustin Rhodes and Jerry Lawler respectively)? It’s because Terri was actually very good at what she did, while The Kat was good at being beautiful and not much else. To be fair, she wasn’t necessarily asked to be much more than eye candy, but she did seem to revel in being placed in beauty pageant “matches” and wrestling in random liquids.

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The Kat and Terri even wrestled a “Stinkface Match” at SummerSlam 2000. She would actually get a storyline right up her exhibitionist ally when The Right To Censor started to come after her for her hyper sexualized lifestyle. It made sense. The RTC tried to protect what was right and decent in the world. Meanwhile, Miss Kitty was wrestling “Hervina” in the snow. Lest we mention Armageddon 2000, when she showcased her unmentionables?!

Jerry Lawler Quit WWE When They Fired His Wife, The Kat

Jerry Lawler And The Kat

While nowadays, some fans bemoan Jerry Lawler whenever he is on commentary, in 2001 he was still a national treasure. To this very day, you’d be hard-pressed to find a concrete answer as to why The Kat was released (bad attitude and bothered creative too much are the two biggest working theories), but once she was, The King, who was married to her at the time, stood by his woman and he left the business too. It took nine months and the entire Invasion angle, but the moment that Paul Heyman was fired is also the moment that The King returned. It might have been nice to hear Lawler’s take on everything that was going on during the WWE / Alliance angle.

Nowadays, whenever the ladies speak about the past days of the division, they mention The Kat’s gravy bowl matches and beauty pageants as major reasons it took them so long to be seen as legitimate competitors in the ring. While it is true that she wasn’t the only one competing, The Kat was seemingly the only one who reveled in the debauchery. That certainly could have just been part of the character and not that real woman.

In the words of Seinfeld, not there is anything wrong with that. But there are also plenty of extracurricular places a person could to go to live that lifestyle instead of a wrestling ring.