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As much as I wanted to just yell my two cents into the void and call it a day, the wrestling community has been incapable of letting go of the story of Sasha Banks and Naomi, the then-current WWE women\u2019s tag team champions, turning in their belts to management, citing a lack of respect for them, the championships they held, other grievances, and then walking out of the company, during the middle of an episode of RAW in which they were already booked and advertised for.<\/span><\/p>\n My knee-jerk reaction to this whole story was it\u2019s a work<\/em><\/strong> (wrestling lingo for scripted), primarily because it was acknowledged on television, and has been repeatedly acknowledged on television since it occurred.\u00a0 Although professional wrestling is an always moving, always evolving entity that has shown great ability to adapt, typically throughout history if something has been genuinely legitimate along this kind of nature, it\u2019s usually not acknowledged on television, to such in-depth detail.<\/span><\/p>\n Usually if something genuinely controversial happens, then suddenly it\u2019s an injury angle, or the offender was assaulted off-camera, leading to them having been rushed to the local hospital, or some kind of hokey excuse to justify why someone isn\u2019t showing.\u00a0 The WWE acknowledging and naming Sasha Banks and Naomi and the specific things they did, doesn\u2019t exactly sound the alarm of legitimate controversy, but more like an elaborate storyline is being executed instead.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, it sets up some future storytelling opportunities, like Naomi having an excuse to break away from the tag team scene to where she can ultimately join the Samoan Bloodline group, since she\u2019s the real-life wife to Jimmy Uso, and would make an excellent addition to the team and give them a designated female member to start collecting women\u2019s titles.\u00a0 But instead of a vanilla breakup storyline with Sasha Banks, she can instead vanish from television outright, before being unveiled at a later date, when people might actually have begun to believe she was indefinitely removed from the company.<\/span><\/p>\n For Sasha Banks however, I\u2019m not really sure how this benefits her, other than the fact that it gets her out of tag team purgatory and capable of vying for a women\u2019s championship sooner rather than later, without having to eat a loss in order to drop the tag titles.<\/span><\/p>\n And frankly, it\u2019s only because Sasha Banks is involved in this at all, is the only think that clouds up the waters that it might not be a work, even though I maintain that it is, solely because of the fact that Sasha Banks has already walked out on the company before, and if the reported reasons for this one are true, then it\u2019s basically history repeating itself, and she probably just needs a minute to chill and come back to earth before ultimately coming back from yet another self-centered hiatus.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is though, if this isn\u2019t a work, then I have to think that Sasha Banks is kind of screwed.\u00a0 Her wrestling career won\u2019t be over, because she can always jump to AEW, and there\u2019s no doubt the WWE would bring her back, because I\u2019ve always said that Vince McMahon would hire the murderer of his wife if he thought there was money to be made with them, and Sasha Banks would be no exception.<\/span><\/p>\n The difference would more likely be the reception she gets from her peers in the industry, because if legitimate, this would be the second time that Sasha has walked out on the company because more or less, she didn\u2019t want to eat a shit sandwich of not being in a prominent, championship-caliber program for a few minutes.\u00a0 The problem is, there is nobody in the entire history of the industry where a shit sandwich or fifty were not on their menu at varying points in their careers, and I\u2019d guess that her peers would be less than enthused with her sense of entitlement and unwillingness to go through the grind as everyone has to in their careers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In wrestling speak, if this is a legitimate situation, then there\u2019s bound to be a lot of the mythical, heat, on both of them, but more on Sasha Banks.\u00a0 It might not sound like such a big deal, but heat has been known to have derailed even the most promising of careers throughout the history of the business.<\/span><\/p>\n By now, I\u2019ve heard all sorts of arguments from the endless rabbling scuttlebutt of the internet community, as well as random discussions with my circle of bros that I like to bullshit about wrestling with.\u00a0 Real or not, it\u2019s good that the perception is that both Sasha and Naomi both know their worth, which makes flexing on the company remotely possible, but when the day is over, if this really isn\u2019t a work, then Naomi is probably more critical to retain than Sasha is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Being an Anoa\u2019I by law as well as a good worker means she has influential backing within the company as well as a role in a storyline that will eventually require her.\u00a0 But as for Sasha, as much of a fan of the worker I am, if this is legitimate, then I kind of lose some respect for her, because I\u2019m feeling like she thinks she\u2019s a little too good for the business to not solely be in championship storylines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sasha might know her worth, but it\u2019s not like she isn\u2019t still ultimately replaceable; Charlotte and Becky Lynch are still the faces of the women\u2019s division.\u00a0 Bianca Bel Air is the present and future.\u00a0 \u00a0Bayley, Asuka and Rhea Ripley are strong workers, Alexa Bliss is still wildly popular, and there\u2019s a ton of women\u2019s talent out there that could be poached or developed, and no one talent will ever be bigger than the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that I still think this is a work, and it\u2019s only a matter of time in which both of them come back, with Naomi joining the Bloodline, and Sasha probably being a masked assailant of Ronda Rousey or something, after she decimates the division because she\u2019ll seemingly always booked to the moon.\u00a0 But if it isn\u2019t a work, then this\u2019ll probably be the beginning of the end for Sasha Banks, and hopefully Mercedes Varnado has made enough friends or can get hooked up through Snoop Dogg, to transition into a performing career.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As much as I wanted to just yell my two cents into the void and call it a day, the wrestling community has been incapable of letting go of the story of Sasha Banks and Naomi, the then-current WWE women\u2019s tag team champions, turning in their belts to management, citing a lack of respect for … Continue reading Sasha & Naomi: if this isn\u2019t a work, then Sasha\u2019s kind of 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