>>14016575It sort of was at the time. The WWF Women's Championship remained vacant for nearly three years after this. It was eventually brought back for Sable (though Jacqueline held it for a couple of months before Sable finally beat her).
The late '90s were a low-point for women's wrestling in general: WCW's two women's titles were short-lived and only ever held by joshi, and the NWA women's title was vacant from 1996-2000.
>>14017135I've always assumed that she would have won it if she hadn't suddenly gone on hiatus for two years, something which I've never seen adequately explained.
But the bigger problem was that Madusa simply wasn't enough to build an entire division around. Most of the women that competed for that title were either joshi on-loan from Japan, or over-the-hill '80s stars like Leilani Kai and Luna Vachon on short-term or per-appearance deals. Some indie up-and-comers like Malia Hosaka were also featured, but WCW didn't bother to sign them long-term. If only Molly Holly had come along a couple of years earlier they might have had something to work with.
