The mid-2010s saw a tremendous change in how World Wrestling Entertainment presented its female talent, offering longer, more competitive matches. The change also resulted in a number of firsts for the division, like the first women’s Hell in a Cell match, the first women’s Money in the Bank match, and so on.

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Conversely, treating female wrestlers like legitimate talent rather than eye candy also meant putting several match types to bed, many of which existed to titillate straight men. Let’s take a look at 10 regrettable match types from far less enlightened times that WWE fans will likely never see again.

10 Divas Battle Royal

WWE Divas Halloween Battle Royal

Make no mistake — fans will certainly see battle royals featuring women for years to come, including the Royal Rumble. But what fans likely won’t see again is the Divas Battle Royale, an insubstantial match where being thrown out between the ropes counts as an elimination, the women wear skimpy themed costumes, and the whole thing lasts like three minutes. The crown jewel/nadir of this match type was, of course, the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal from WrestleMania 25, where two-dozen women were eliminated in six minutes and the winner was Santino.

9 Evening Gown Match

Evening Gown Match

The 1998 pay-per-view Unforgiven: In Your House 21 brought WWE its first evening gown match, a three-minute affair between Sable and Luna Vachon. The rules of this gimmick match are pretty simple: both competitors start out wearing evening gowns rather than ring gear, with the goal being to rip off the opponent’s dress. In the years that followed, there have been some variations, like the "Playboy Evening Gown Match" at WrestleMania 20 or Armageddon 1999’s four-way iteration, which took place in an above-ground pool.

8 Wet & Wild Match

Wet & Wild Match

While the Attitude Era is best known for demeaning women’s matches, Ruthless Aggression didn’t slouch in this regard, either. The summer was always an easy excuse to get the Divas to engage in some water-based shenanigans, and June 2006 introduced the Wet & Wild Match, which was basically a wet T-shirt contest as a wrestling match, as competitors wore all white and attacked one another squirt guns, water balloons, and the like.

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The first of these would happen on Raw, between Candice Michelle and Torrie Wilson, but would be brought back in 2008 for a SmackDown bout with Maryse and Victoria taking on Michelle McCool and Cherry.

7 Extreme Makeover

wwe-extreme-makeover-match

WWE is no stranger to the absurdly themed street fight, rolling out pumpkins for a Trick ‘r Street Fight or setting up instruments for a Symphony of Destruction match. At 2010’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view, Michelle McCool defended her Women’s Championship against Beth Phoenix in an Extreme Makeover match, where the props included cosmetic products and domestic housekeeping products for some reason. After strategic use of items like hairspray, ironing boards, and a mop, Beth Phoenix put Michelle McCool away with a Glam Slam.

6 Summer Swimsuit Spectacular

WWE Raw's Summer Swimsuit Spectacular

For many fans, the worst era of Raw was the “guest host” era, wherein every episode had a special celebrity guest host like Saturday Night Live, with hosts including old wrestlers, athletes, musicians, and actors. The first non-wrestler to host was actor and Robot Chicken co-creator Seth Green, and the first thing he did when he showed up was book a “Summer Swimsuit Spectacular.” While that sounds like a big deal, it was literally just a regular less-than-four-minute six-woman tag team match, except all the wrestlers were wearing swimsuits. WWE brought the concept back in April of 2010, this time with a Baywatch theme.

5 Paddle on a Pole Match

Candice Michelle vs. Torrie Wilson in a Paddle on a Pole match

Fans love to make fun of Vince Russo’s insistence on the “on a Pole” match during his stint in late-period WCW, but WWE wasn’t above the gimmick either, even after Russo ran the concept into the ground. In a 2002 Raw, Terri Runnels and Trish Stratus collided in the first of several Paddle on a Pole matches, where the winner was the one who successfully grabbed said paddle off of said pole. Of course, the winner would of course use the paddle — or, attempt to use, as was often the case — to spank her opponent.

4 Any Match That Basically Amounted To Mud Wrestling

Mud Pool match in WWE

Mud wrestling is a common source of straight male titillation, so of course WWE would get in on the action by inflicting it upon its female talent. While it’s not always mud, it’s still the same principle, with the substance being substituted with chocolate pudding or, in one seasonal variation in 2001, eggnog.

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One of the last of these — on the 6/23/2014 episode of Raw — is surprisingly recent, but it was between Stephanie McMahon and Vickie Guerrero, so the aim here was watching Guerrero get humiliated.

3 Catfight

Catfight at WrestleMania 2000

While the term “catfight” in pro wrestling may conjure memories of Joey Styles shrieking in his ECW days, it was also a match type that WWE employed in the Attitude Era. With the winner being the one who threw her opponent out of the ring — like a two-person battle royal — one of the most high-profile iterations of this bout was between the Kat (appropriately) and Terri Runnels, with Val Venis as a guest referee. Hilariously, this happened at WrestleMania 2000, where it was the only singles match on the card.

2 Pillow Fight

Pillow Fight in WWE

Given the presence of mud wrestling and catfights on this list, one should have expected pillow fights to also be a match type employed by WWE in its dark ages. With a bed in the middle of the ring and the competitors clad in lingerie, the object of the pillow fight was to hit one another with pillows and get into provocative situations until someone gets a pinfall victory. Terri Runnels and Stacy Keibler were the first competitors in WWE’s various pillow fights, with Keibler winning after loading her pillowcase with an alarm clock.

1 Bra & Panties Match

Bra and Panties Match

The signature Attitude Era/Ruthless Aggression era Divas match — their version of NXT’s 2/3 Falls match or Lucha Underground’s Grave Consequences — was, of course, the Bra & Panties match. A broader version of the Evening Gown match, the goal was to rip off the opponent’s clothes — what they were wearing didn’t matter — until they were in nothing but their underwear. With WWE’s overhaul of its presentation of women’s wrestling, it’s the defunct match type that’s often referenced to show how far the division has come, so it’s the least unlikely one fans will ever see again.