Latest On Sasha Banks & Naomi Confirms If WWE Raw Walkout Was A Work
If WWE fans were hanging onto hope that the Sasha Banks and Naomi walkout on Monday Night Raw was a work, they will likely be let down by the most recent reports surrounding the incident. During the May 16th episode of Raw, news began to surface that the women's tag-team champions had left the building despite being booked in the show's main event. The fallout was quick, and fans still aren't sure exactly where Banks and Naomi stand with WWE, as neither has made a statement as of this writing.
Asuka went on to win the reconfigured main event against Becky Lynch and will now take on a prominent role at the Hell In A Cell premium live event. The pair were reportedly upset about the creative for the Raw main event before this shift, while some speculation has surfaced that Naomi's contract situation could also have played a part in the walkout. Naomi was booked to win the main event on Raw and then face Raw women's champion, Bianca Belair, at Hell In A Cell, where she'd presumably lose. Banks was also supposedly being set up to fight Ronda Rousey, a feud she'd likely be on the losing end of as well. This apparently led to concerns about the direction of the tag-team division on the whole.
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Fans of Banks and Naomi may have been anticipating news that this all has been an elaborate work, but a recent report from Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com indicates that those hopes are in vain. WWE SmackDown is in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this evening, but Naomi didn't travel alongside her husband, Jimmy Uso, according to Johnson's company sources. He also wrote that "Sasha Banks has not been seen in Michigan, and a long-time Elite subscriber sent word last night
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