A big reason for that was the talent WWE decided to showcase in this match. From a marquee standpoint, the biggest names WWE fans would've recognized were Moolah, the long-time WWE stalwart, and Christianello, who had worked for the promotion back when it was known as the WWWF. And yet, both were among the two eliminated early in the match, alongside Marie and Robin. As such, the match focus turned to Sherri, the WWE Hall of Famer who was just as renowned for her ring work as her valet skills, McIntyre, a well-renowned Irish wrestler with experience in the US, Europe, and Japan, and arguably the two best women's tag teams at the time in the Jumping Bomb Angels and the Glamour Girls. With the final nine minutes focused on those individuals, the match turned into less of a stereotypical, Moolah style match most fans expected from women at the time, and into something more in line with the All Japan Women's style going on in Japan.

In other words, it offered a glimmer of hope for women's wrestling at the time. Instead of being a sideshow, talents like the Jumping Bomb Angels and Glamour Girls showed they could be the show, offering innovative wrestling that even the men weren't delivering at the time. And briefly, it seemed as though it would carry over, as the Jumping Bomb Angels and Glamour Girls, already feuding before Survivor Series, would have a series of well-received bouts throughout early 1988, and a WrestleMania match between them was supposedly in the cards. Alas, that glimmer quickly faded; by the spring, both teams had left WWE, never to return, and the women's division went from potentially breaking out to having to wait many more years before it got its just due.