History of WWE
The two top stars of the Attitude Era, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, eventually left the company in 2003 and 2004 respectively, while newcomers such as Brock Lesnar, who would become the youngest WWE Champion and Randy Orton, who became the youngest World Heavyweight Champion, saw huge success. Triple H would also be featured prominently during this time, winning several of his fourteen world championships, as would The Undertaker whose WrestleMania win streak started gaining fame. Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Edge, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, John Cena, Batista, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, and Rob Van Dam were also given main event opportunities and all ended up becoming multiple-time world champions. From mid 2002 to 2003, WWE brought several prominent WCW stars to the company, including Eric Bischoff, Scott Steiner, Goldberg, Kevin Nash and Ric Flair. The Great American Bash, originally a WCW pay-per-view event, made its debut in WWE.
Charlotte Flair
As a teenager, Flair appeared alongside her father in World Championship Wrestling. In 2012, she began training with WWE, debuting in its developmental brand NXT in 2013. In 2014, she won the NXT Women's Championship and was named Rookie of the Year by "Pro Wrestling Illustrated" ("PWI"). Flair was promoted to WWE's main roster in 2015, quickly winning the Divas Championship. In 2016, she was crowned the inaugural WWE Women's Champion (which later became the Raw Women's Championship when the brand split was reintroduced). Her match against Sasha Banks at Hell in a Cell in October 2016 was the first match featuring women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event. Together in 2016, they also main evented "Raw" in a singles match in October and November 2016 (the first for a women's match since 2004) and became the first women to win the "PWI" award for Feud of the Year. They also set the new record for the longest WWE women's one-on-one match at in December 2016 at over 34 minutes. "PWI" readers named Flair both Woman of the Year and the world's top female professional wrestler for 2016.