Sasha Banks and Naomi’s situation has a few small updates to the story, so we’ll
see what’s going on there and also take a look at the latest for Sonya Deville
The Sasha Banks and Naomi story continues to get several new updates every single day,
so let’s go over what’s next here with this situation
Everything is still radio silent from Sasha Banks and Naomi’s end.
There’s no tweets, no posts, no publicly made comments or anything of the sort from
the most two talked about names in pro wrestling right now
WWE was quick to put out their version of the story.
They blasted Sasha and Naomi on air and then blasted them again with that public statement
And we talked about how that statement did paint Sasha and Naomi in a very negative light
and made it seem like they refused to work with certain people in the six pack challenge
and just left in the middle of the show
So people thought maybe we would hear Sasha and Naomi’s side of her story, maybe they
release a statement like WWE did with their version, but that hasn’t been the case at
all
There’s dozens of reports by now that have all these different details and perspectives
of what happened, but obviously, there’s no way of knowing if these claims are legitimate
or not
The only piece of solid information to go by is WWE’s statement, but even with their
statement, it feels like something else is missing from this story.
It feels like even WWE is leaving out a crucial part
WWE mentioned in their statement that Sasha and Naomi stressed about feeling disrespected
as tag team champions, so what could be the context of that comment from them
Well more and more reports appear to be backing the rumors that Sasha and Naomi would’ve
found themselves both in separate world title matches at Hell In A Cell
Naomi would’ve won the six pack challenge to lose to Bianca Belair at Hell In A Cell,
while Sasha would go onto lose to Ronda Rousey at Hell in a Cell.
There would’ve been no tag team title defense at Hell In A Cell either
you’re probably thinking “WWE wanted to put the both of them in world title matches,
what’s wrong with that?”
Well looking at it from their perspective, they’re not in the singles division right
now, they’re the tag team champions for a women’s tag team division that doesn’t
exist
Their entire mission when WWE put them together was to stop the trend WWE had of disrespecting
the women’s tag team titles
Sasha and Naomi accepted being paired up and accepted the women’s tag team titles because
they wanted to elevate this tag team division and bring it back to life, put it back on
the map
For a while now, the women’s tag team titles would just be placed on a team that had been
together for just a few weeks and then the titles get forgotten about until it’s time
for them to change hands again
So everyone was talking about how Sasha and Naomi could put a stop to this negative trend
and actually elevate the titles since they had a lot of star power
Sasha and Naomi held the titles for five weeks, they had a few brief interactions with the
teams of Liv and Rhea, Natalya and Shayna, but obviously it was heading in the direction
they expected it to
They didn’t defend the titles at Backlash and if WWE went through with this original
plan, then they weren’t defending it at Hell In A Cell either
So when they say they’re being disrespected as tag team champions, it’s sort of true
the titles just always get forgotten about, a tag team division doesn’t even exist for
the women and it always ends up back in square one
So after seeing the trend over those five weeks and then hearing about these Hell In
A Cell plans, it looks like that was it for them
Reports claim that apparently Sasha led the charge and convinced Naomi to leave with her
It was also reported that there’s little to no sympathy for Sasha Banks and how the
locker-room is mostly against this decision
It was also reported that the locker-room doesn’t hold these same feelings towards
Naomi because they feel like she was manipulated to leave, so it really wasn’t her full decision
That’s just what the reports are claiming right now, obviously there’s no way of telling
what’s true and what’s not, but that’s what’s being said
Some fans feel like WWE should just go ahead and retire the women’s tag team titles for
good
It was a decent idea back in 2019 because there were a lot of tag teams around back
then, but ever since then, the titles have been cursed because they’re always thrown
to the corner and have no storylines surrounding them
Road Dogg even came out and said that he feels like it’s a publicity stunt and a storyline
for the women’s tag team titles
But Raw commentator, Jimmy Smith, stressed on his podcast that it wasn’t a work or
angle at all, it was something that was unfolding in real life that had to be addressed to the
audience
WWE Hall Of Fame member, Bully Ray, shared a similar idea of how this would be brilliant
if it was a work after all
Bully Ray thinks that what’s going on with Sasha and Naomi could be a storyline idea
from Paul Heyman because he thinks it’s something Heyman would do
Bully Ray even said that the endgame, if this was a storyline, could be for Sasha and Naomi
to possibly split up and have Naomi go with The Bloodline
So everyone’s split.
You have some people that believe it’s fake, and some that believe this is actually happening
So that’s the latest for Sasha and Naomi so far, still no word on if both sides have
talked things over yet
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Let’s get into everything with Sonya Deville because she actually has some story going
on with her
Sonya returned to WWE early 2021 as a quiet assistant to Adam Pearce, but as time went
on, Sonya obviously broke out of that shell in a major way
She became a vintage evil boss character
Sonya returned to the ring in fall 2021, but all of matches included some type of abuse
of her WWE official power
She couldn’t compete in a full match without trying to pull off some type of abuse of power
That went on for a while until Adam Pearce finally told Sonya that was fired as an official
and will be back to being a full time competitor once again
Over the last few weeks, Sonya has faced Alexa Bliss in a few losing efforts
Like we recently talked about, Alexa has little to no story at all going on here, but Sonya
definitely has something going on
With the few losses to Alexa Bliss, it looks like the idea that they’re showing so far
is that since it’s been a long time since Sonya competed as an actual competitor without
power, she has no clue how to really manage a match without being able to cheat
So the first week, she said she wasn’t ready, it was a shock return that she wasn’t prepared
for
And then in the second week, she losses again and puts hands on the referee
Sonya is used to putting hands on anyone and getting away with it, but Adam Pearce announced
that Sonya was in fact storyline-fined for her attack on the referee
So Sonya’s arc seems to be all downhill at the moment and you can definitely understand
why
This character has done a lot of bad things to people over the last few months, so you
can’t just let the character get away with that, she’ll now have to pay for her previous
actions as a WWE official
similar to what Becky Lynch’s character is dealing with right now, Sonya is just at
the beginning of this downfall arc
It’s gonna take her a while to snap back into things and get used to not having that
WWE official power at her disposal
But once she gets the hang of being a full time competitor then Sonya can be right back
to where she was at in 2020 as a promising top heel in the women’s division
So there’s a lot to look forward to there with Sonya Deville’s story
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