WWE announced on January 28, 2017 that Nikki Bella would serve as an executive producer for "Total Divas" starting in the second half of the sixth season in April. Nikki would become the first female talent within the company to become a producer of a company related show. During the following months, WWE booked several special matches that, until that moment, were only contested between men, like the women's Money in the Bank ladder match, the women's women's Royal Rumble match, the women's Elimination Chamber match, and the women's Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. In 2018, WWE hosted WWE Evolution, the first only-women WWE pay-per-view, where all of the active women's championships in WWE were defended and the finals of the 2018 Mae Young Classic tournament.