As more and more is coming out about Sasha Banks and Naomi walking out of Raw, it’s starting to look more like they were being professionals and were met with unprofessionalism.
Of course, this is pure speculation as the complete facts haven’t come out, but from the look of things early reports about Banks and Naomi trying to keep respect for themselves, the tag titles, and women’s division look to be legitimate.
In short, they were protecting themselves and the credibility they’re trying to bring the tag titles. One of those reports came from a twitter user called @Adidas_Head8.
You are approached in February as being put in a tag team, after both being promised big feuds at WM.
You bite the bullet and put everything you got into being a tag team. It works, you get over, win the titles at WM and become merch pushers.
— Security at Joseline's Cabaret (@Adidas_Head88) May 17, 2022
Giving answers
While he hasn’t (as of this writing) established what his relationship is with Naomi, many have speculated that he’s one of her friends.
He’s said repeatedly he just asked someone the question and got an answer along with permission to share a side of the story.
Here is what he had to say:
“You request a meeting with your boss to discuss it. Your boss takes the meeting and everything is actually going well. He understands your concerns.
“The meeting ends well and the match is told to be reconstructed. For some reason producers get mad about it.
“You then ask with one of your members going over, what happens to your titles? You are told basically that you will just be carrying the belts. They want to use you both to help both women’s champions get more over.
“Bianca vs. Naomi
“Neither one of you will win the solo titles, and you won’t defend your tag titles until MITB.
“You ask for another meeting with your boss, but this time you are being called spoiled. A producer walks away screaming.
“He comes back and tell both of you to fix your attitudes.
“Y’all have a brief meeting amongst yourselves and decide to stand up for yourselves. You go to another boss, and make it clear you just have concerns.
“You ask why are we even in the match and why aren’t other women in it? You ask why your titles have no stories for two months?
“Again you are met with fix your attitudes.
“So after one final meeting with yourselves and asking others, you make the ultimate decision as a team.
“It’s sad how oneside is trying to create a fucked up narrative.
“Also, it was asked why were Nikki ASH and Doudrop in the match instead of starting their program tonight.
“Naomi nor Sasha talked down about being in the ring with either one. Idk how that got flipped.”
Sadly, he’s been dealing with tons of notifications from fans trying to discredit and insult him, so we ask if anyone goes to his account to please do so with respect.
Validation
There’s been plenty of corroboration to what was shared by another account that reported on what insiders are allegedly said about it here (https://twitter.com/bnkslynch/status/1526419007879921669).
Plus, Dave Meltzer has weighed in about Banks and Naomi were meant to put Ronda Rousey and Bianca Belair over at Hell in a Cell.
By all accounts, it looks like they were defending the tag titles and division instead of being used as fodder for the singles. But that’s what Vince McMahon and the WWE have used their tag divisions for for decades.
And now it’s been reported Banks is facing serious heat backstage for walking out, but as Meltzer said, it’s coming from people that are hearing things and not anyone in management.
At the moment, all we can do is speculate about what’s happening and wait for the everything to eventually be explained.
We’ve mentioned this several times and it bears repeating: WWE seems to be reacting like they did with Steve Austin when he refused to work due to creative differences.
The only way to know for sure is to wait and see what comes out.
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