The outcome of the Smackdown women’s championship
match at Wrestlemania 36 just opened up a
brand new storyline for defending champion,
Bayley.
Ever since Sasha Banks made her return and
influenced Bayley to turn heel, Bayley has
seen a lot of success.
Bayley is now deep into a historic run as
Smackdown women’s champion and is well on
her way of becoming the longest reigning women’s
champion in recent memory if she keeps this
up.
One of the criticisms about this heel version
of Bayley is that she can’t do anything
by herself and needs her right hand woman,
Sasha Banks, by her side.
Sasha Banks made her long awaited return in
late 2019 and her character sounded like she
was back with a whole new mindset and attitude.
Sasha Banks went right after WWE Raw women’s
champion, Becky Lynch, and majority of fans
assumed that Sasha would defeat Becky for
the championship and that would serve as the
ultimate payoff for Sasha’s return.
But we never quite got that outcome.
Becky defeated Sasha countless times that
WWE just ended up shipping Sasha over to Smackdown.
But Sasha Banks hasn’t really had the opportunity
to be own person on Smackdown and has just
been serving as Bayley’s sidekick.
Other superstars have pointed this out to
sasha and Bayley during their promos, these
superstars will say that Sasha will turn on
Bayley or Bayley is only using Sasha to help
continue her title reign and other things
of that sort.
These superstars say these sorts of things
to Bayley and Sasha in attempt to make some
cracks in their friendship and really make
them think about betraying one another.
Up until now, that has never been the case.
Even though Bayley and Sasha originally started
off as rivals in NXT, they’ve been closer
than ever on WWE television since 2016.
Bayley actually made her main roster debut
thanks to Sasha Banks bringing her out as
a mystery tag team partner, so they’ve really
been together since the start.
Now like we’ve discussed before, WWE did
tease a feud between Bayley and Sasha a few
years ago on Raw, but it went no where at
all
Sasha attacked Bayley, Bayley returned the
favor and attacked Sasha, but two just made
up out of no where and the story was dropped.
Heading into Wrestlemania, Bayley had all
odds stacked against her with a 5 way match,
but since Bayley had Sasha Banks by her side,
it made things a bit easier.
But with what’s been going on lately, it’s
becoming extremely obvious that Sasha has
something up her sleeve.
When paige announced that Sasha was in the
Wrestlemania title match, you can notice that
Sasha gets a little smirk on her face as if
she’s been waiting for an opportunity like
this to take that title away from her best
friend.
Then fast forward to Wrestlemania and Sasha
looked like she was all in it to help Bayley
retain.
The two of them double teamed everyone until
it was just them two and Lacey Evans.
Bayley and Sasha ran into some communication
issues which lead to Sasha being eliminated.
What would’ve been interesting to see here
is if Sasha and Bayley were the last two superstars
remaining in the elimination match.
If it came down to the two of them, would
Sasha just lay down for Bayley and take the
pin or would Sasha put up a fight and try
to take the title for herself?
We’ll never know since Sasha was eliminated
early, but maybe that was Sasha’s big plan.
She would help Bayley get rid of everyone
else in the match until she was the last one
left and then she would have taken advantage
of Bayley and win the title for herself.
What ended up happening instead was that Sasha
waited outside the ring until Bayley was in
trouble and she jumped in last second for
the safe.
Now remember this moment because it will definitely
come up again in a future Sasha Banks promo
down the line.
Sasha literally won that match for Bayley
and when they split in the near future, Sasha
will mention how Bayley would’ve never made
it out of Wrestlemania as champion if it wasn’t
for her.
So that closing moment of their Wrestlemania
match will serve a lot of purpose in the Bayley
vs Sasha feud that’s coming up.
Not only the closing moments of the match,
but also what happened after that match.
Sasha held the Smackdown women’s title in
her hand for a long time and stared at it
before handing it over to Bayley.
Sasha even took the time to put the title
around Bayley’s waist before lifting her
arm up as well.
Even Bayley seemed to be weirded out by how
Sasha was acting.
Sasha’s facial expressions during these
moments were really on point and she told
a whole story without saying a single word.
Sasha putting the title around Bayley seemed
really sarcastic in a way, it just seemed
like Sasha was saying “You only have this
right now because of me”.
And it’s looking like Bayley could be starting
to get a little suspicious of Sasha as well.
So what’s next?
It looks like we’ll finally be getting a
real sequel to their 2015 feud.
Sasha could snap at any second now and show
her true colors to Bayley.
Bayley would definitely be the one to feel
betrayed here.
Bayley showed her loyalty to Sasha when she
turned heel for her, but when the roles are
flipped, it doesn’t look like Sasha would
return that same loyalty to Bayley.
Sasha will make it clear that taking that
title from her is way more important than
their friendship.
The story has real good set up and potential
at the moment.
Bayley is of course on top of the world right
now with her long reign and has defeated a
lot of the Smackdown women, so we see that
she’s real cocky right now.
She’s saying that there isn’t anyone left
to face, she’s calling out Paige, she’s
saying that she loss count of her days as
champion, so Bayley is really getting full
of herself at the moment.
This of course sets up the one women who she
hasn’t defended that title against one and
one and that of course is Sasha Banks.
Bayley’s long title reign would then end
to Sasha Banks, who was the last person she
expected to take the title away from her.
Reports also claimed that WWE really wanted
to do Bayley vs Sasha Banks at Wrestlemania,
but by the time they thought of it, Wrestlemania
was only a few weeks away and they didn’t
want to rush the story, so it was delayed.
And telling by the looks of things, it seems
that Wrestlemania was actually the beginning
of their break up story, so we’ll have to
see how fast this story will progress going
forward.
Will Sasha slowly turn on Bayley and set up
a big match this year’s Summerslam or will
Sasha turn on Bayley even sooner than that?
That’ll be something to keep an eye on,
but it looks like we’re finally getting
another Bayley vs Sasha feud, so that’s
definitely exciting
So for today’s bonus story, we’ll be taking
a look at the latest update regarding WWE’s
television tapings
There’s been some concern regarding if wwe
will go on break after Wrestlemania or will
continue with their tapings so let’s swap
over and take a look at the latest update....
So what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
Are you looking forward to Sasha Banks vs
Bayley and who would you like to see come
out of that feud as Smackdown women’s champion?
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