Today we’ll be getting back into latest
mews surrounding Sasha Banks and Bayley
Since winning the women’s tag team championships,
Sasha Banks and Bayley have been running the
show across all three brands
Some fans and even other superstars are proclaiming
Sasha and Bayley as the ultimate workhorses
for working all three shows consistently every
week
Sure, Charlotte did the same thing for a few
weeks after Wrestlemania, but Sasha and Bayley
have so much more going on within their whole
story
Sasha Banks is fueding with Aus-ka over on
Raw for the women’s title while Bayley is
feuding with Nikki Cross for the Smackdown
women’s title
Sasha and Bayley are also mixing in some title
defenses for the tag team championships as
well as some NXT appearances.
Then we also have that background tension
between Sasha and Bayley that’s leading
to their breakup, so as you can tell, Sasha
and Bayley just have so much story going on
around them
For the first time in nearly 5 years, Sasha
Banks is competing on NXT again and you can’t
argue with the numbers, she’s pulling in
some major viewership for NXT
NXT beat AEW in viewership for the second
week in a row with Sasha’s main event match
also playing a big role in the ratings
Christ Jericho, who was tired of hearing of
all the news about NXT winning in viewership,
took to twitter to break down the fact that
AEW was still technically winning
He had this to say,
“Here’s a lesson about television ratings.
Last week AEW was NUMBER 6 in the 18-49 demo.
To TV networks & advertisers it’s the ONLY
number that matters and we were up 31% in
that area!
So once again AEW is the REAL winner in the
Wednesday night ratings!”
Does Jericho have a point?
He sure does, maybe AEW is winning with that
area, but the one thing he doesn’t really
have an answer for is the fact that they still
lost in flat out viewership
Sasha Banks spent the whole week celebrating
this huge accomplishment because it really
was a big deal.
If NXT continues to feature Sasha and Bayley
with them bringing in these big numbers then
it could mean trouble for AEW.
They’re gonna have to step it up even more
as well
So let’s fast forward a few days to Smackdown.
Sasha and Bayley come out to celebrate themselves
with their promo and video package, but there
also was a lot of those subtle hints between
Sasha and Bayley
The first one could’ve been easily missed
by most fans, but it takes place during the
video package about Sasha and Bayley
In the video, Sasha says a few lines about
how amazing Bayley is and how she doesn’t
know anyone that’s as good as Bayley.
Sasha then gives a very sarcastic like facial
expression to the camera and I don’t know
about you guys, but I understood that whole
line as a full on sarcastic statement by Sasha
Banks.
Sasha knows she’s better than Bayley, so
she was struggling to say that line about
Bayley with a straight face
So that was the first breakup hint of the
night, but there was two more big hints
We just talked about it during last week’s
video on Sasha Banks and Bayley, we discussed
how it’ll be nice to see Sasha Banks volunteer
and accept a match on Bayley’s behalf since
Bayley is always doing that to her and that
moment finally happened
Sasha Banks accepted match on Bayley’s behalf
and threw her into the match with Alexa Bliss
when Bayley wasn’t even ready to compete
at all
It’s just the perfect revenge for all the
times that Bayley has done that same thing
to Sasha Banks.
I’ve lost count of how many times Bayley
volunteered Sasha into a match, it’s about
time Sasha got back at Bayley
The last big hint came after the match was
over.
Instead of just holding the title in her hand
while Bayley was wrestling, Sasha Banks had
Bayley’s Smackdown women’s title fully
wrapped around her waist and she was wearing
it as if she was the champion
Even after the match was over, the camera
shows Sasha wearing the title around her waist
and staring down at it while Bayley was exiting
the ring.
Sasha was also very slow with taking that
title off her waist and handing it back to
Bayley
I don’t know, but it looks like Sasha Banks
is definitely getting comfortable with the
idea of holding that Smackdown women’s championship
This isn’t the first time Sasha Banks has
done this sort of thing with the title.
Sasha did something very similar at Wrestlemania
as well
After basically winning and defending the
title for Bayley at Wrestlemania, Sasha walked
over to ringside, grabbed the title and held
it in her hand for a longtime before finally
handing it back over to Bayley
It was made clear in that moment that Sasha
Banks was at least entertaining the thought
of holding the Smackdown women’s championship,
but not much really happened after that night.
We’ve only gotten small subtle hints like
the ones we went over today
It’s looking like WWE is stretching this
storyline and milking as much as they can
which isn’t a bad thing at all, it’s fun
to speculate about the both of them and look
for those little breakup hints week after
week, so no-one is complaining about them
stretching it out as much as possible
This is something that Booker-T even addressed
during one of his recent podcasts.
Booker-T had this to say about the storyline
between Sasha Banks and Bayley:
“I mean, come on.
This is wrestling.
It’s pro wrestling, alright?
It’s not MMA, so something like that got
to happen sooner or later down the line.
One thing about it, we got plenty of time
for something like that, that storyline, the
last 4-6 months to a year before something
like that could really jump off.
Like I said, especially right now in the holding
pattern”
“I’m all about timing, man, and right
now we gotta milk this thing as much as we
possibly can.
We gotta try to get as much out of every storyline
on television right now, just to literally
prolong what we’re going through right now.”
So quite the interesting take their by Booker-T.
He also believes that WWE should take it slow
with this storyline and milk it for as long
as they can considering the limited roster
WWE has right now and the current situation
He’s definitely right, You don’t wanna
rush through the Sasha Banks and Bayley storyline
then it just gets to the point where Sasha
and Bayley have nothing to do
So WWE is taking the story the right direction
with the very slow booking.
Even though the breakup is going slow, Sasha
and Bayley still drop these hints every single
week.
They’re booking each other in matches and
give each other some strange looks at times,
so we know that tension between them is still
there even through all this recent success
they had.
So imagine when they lose the tag titles and
possibly even go on a massive losing streak,
things could get really ugly for Sasha Banks
and Bayley
Booker-T wasn’t done yet.
Booker showed some appreciation for Sasha’s
work, but was a little critical of Bayley‘s
work.
He had this to say:
“Sasha is a major player.
She is one talent on the roster that you can
always be able to go to and then know that
she’s always going to deliver, especially
in a big match.
Bayley, the same thing.
“Even though I’m always on Bayley’s
case, you know, but Bayley is the quintessential
worker.
She can go out there and she may not be great
at anything but she’s good at everything.
So when I watch Bayley go out and perform
now, taking on this new persona, which is
something that I couldn’t wait for something
like this to happen.
I think it’s good for, as well as we’re
in era again, this pandemic era.
Everything right now is kind of like on hold
in like a holding pattern and for those two
to be in position in a holding pattern is
perfect.”
So saying she’s not “great at anything”
could be seen as a small insult, but booker
did give Bayley a lot credit for her work
Sasha Banks stood-up for the both of them
and responded on twitter by saying that Bayley
and herself are way better than Harlem Heat
ever was, which was Booker-T’s tag team
from way back in the day
So Sasha was right there and was quick with
her response to Booker-T.
Sasha Banks and Bayley will turn their attention
to their title matches at Extreme Rules
Sasha will need to focus on her WWE Raw women’s
championship match against Aus-ka and Bayley
will have to focus on defending her title
against Nikki Cross at Extreme Rules
What will be interesting to see is the order
of their matches at Extreme Rule.
Will Bayley’s match go on first or will
Sasha’s match go on first?
I can see it going either way, maybe something
like Bayley’s match going on first and Sasha
once again helps her to retain the title
So Sasha then heads into her Raw women’s
title match feeling so confident because she
knows Bayley will be there to return the favor
and help her win the raw women’s title and
this is where I think the conflict will be
at
Sasha is expecting Bayley to help her win
by any means especially since Sasha just helped
Bayley earlier in the night, but to Sasha’s
surprise, Bayley actually costs her the raw
women’s title “accidentally”
Bayley will play it off like if it was an
accident, but we’re all gonna be able to
tell that Bayley did it on purpose.
Bayley doesn’t seem like the kind of character
that wants to share the spotlight.
She doesn’t want Sasha to have two titles
as well, she wants to be the only double champion
on the team, so that’s why I feel like Bayley
will be Sasha’s biggest threat in the raw
women’s championship match
Aus-ka isn’t the big threat at all in that
title match, it’s definitely Bayley.
So Sasha needs to watch over her shoulder
at her “best friend” because that’s
gonna be the person that stops her from being
women’s champion, that’s my prediction
for everything going on with them at Extreme
Rules
But what are your thoughts on everything going
on right now with Sasha Banks and Bayley?
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