The main event of this year's WrestleMania will be a women's match for the first time ever

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published 25 March 2019

Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch are about to make history at WrestleMania.

WWE has announced that 2019's WrestleMania will feature a women's match as the main event for the first time ever. A previously-announced triple threat match between Rousey, Flair, and Lynch for the Raw Women's Championship will take center stage at the show, WWE confirmed on Monday.

In recent years, women have gained greater prominence in WWE amid what the company has referred to as the "women's revolution," the rise of which Flair and Lynch played major roles in. WWE finally stopped calling its female wrestlers "divas," in 2016 replacing the Divas Championship with the Women's Championship, of which there are now two for Raw and SmackDown Live. In October 2018, WWE held Evolution, its first pay-per-view event centered entirely around the female talent.

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Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.

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