It was booked as a six-pack challenge, so it would see the tag team breaking up each other's pinfall attempts which makes even less sense if you're not going to immediately split the team.
It makes sense when you realise that Vince hates tag teams and prefers the break up angle. Plus the ego of the two women involved.
Supposedly Naomi was supposed to pin Sasha setting up a break up angle and that's what lit the fuse on the drama bomb. There's a pretty detailed twitter thread from someone connected to Naomi that fills in some of the backstage drama with a lot of the blame going towards producers being unwilling to budge. If the bit in WWE's statement about them being uncomfortable working with certain people for safety reasons is bullshit, and the rest of the talent knows it, then this could end up being a hilarious dumpster fire.
Hard to sympathize with Naomi and Sasha here. We all know what WWE is. You take the WWE money, you have to put up with the WWE bullshit.
I agree, especially the ones that were already unhappy but sign new multi-year deals anyway like Ali. The interesting thing is that Naomi has never been one to cause public drama over WWE creative in the past. Is it outside influence (Sasha/social media) or has WWE reached a level of backstage dysfunction so untenable that even the quiet ones are acting out?
just older and slower rhyming
taking your ball and going home is always a cunt move no excuses only Austin ever had anything close to a good reason
I'm surprised at that. Sasha to me always seemed pretty good in highly rehearsed matches where there are a bunch of spots planned and they only have to work from one spot to another, but doesn't seem to be able to call anything in the ring. In the matches I've seen, whenever there was a botch or someone went off script she looked lost. I didn't think and old hand like Regal who can call entire matches in the ring would be into that kind of thing.
I'm surprised they didn't pull the ol' move of just not doing the spot. "Oops, I forgot." Instead they tried to pull the old Hulk Hogan "that's doesn't work for me, brother" move, not realizing that they weren't Hulk Hogan.
That's my impression of all the top American women: can have great matches if thoroughly rehearsed but can't improvise for shit. I think I've heard Ronda and Charlotte say that too: they "rehearsed a big PPV match for several weeks at the Performance Center." The Joshi women at least usually just forearm the shit out of each other until they remember their spots. And in New Japan, every match is five minutes of "fighting spirit" anyway.
I mean, her husband drinking himself stupid every other week likely isn't helping her I imagine. Also didn't she play a part in some of the hashtags to get her noticed a few mania's back?
I believe so, she was still upset that she lost the Women's title without getting a chance to win it back. Like the belt means anything. It's just a prop to fuel a story between one of the big four women. She'll never be part of that even if she joins Roman.
Oh, so it was just Sasha having another shitfit.
You put one of my pet peeves into words. That guy had his cronies beat the shit out of me/ tipped an ambulance on top of me/ used his Satanist woo woo bullshit to make me throw up black stuff/ pulled out my eye... but I need to follow my entrance's musical cues and pose!
It's possible. I know guys like the Bucks do. If guys like Danielson, FTR, Punk, Moxley and MJF are doing it, they sure do a good job of making it look natural. Wrestlers like Sasha come off as the wrestling equivalent of an actor that just remembers their lines and waits for their turn to talk as opposed to the kind of actor that internalizes the character and focuses on reacting to the other person's line.
