Sasha Banks & Naomi WWE Futures In Limbo As Creative Has Nothing For Them
Fans of Sasha Banks and Naomi have been on a wild ride over the last week, and it's likely not coming to an end anytime soon as reports indicate that WWE creative has nothing in the works for the former women's tag-team champions. Banks and Naomi walked out on Monday Night Raw on May 16th, and they have since been stripped of their tag-team titles. This comes after their historic and emotional victory during WrestleMania 38, which has apparently led to a run that has generated a lot of frustration for The Boss and Glow.
It has been reported that Naomi and Banks left Raw due to issues with creative surrounding the six-pack challenge that was the advertised main event for the evening. Naomi was scheduled to win that bout and then subsequently go on to lose to WWE Raw Women's Champion Bianca Belair at the upcoming Hell In A Cell premium live event. Meanwhile, Banks supposedly would have been positioned to wrestle (and lose to) Ronda Rousey, leaving the tag-team titles and presumably the division as a whole on hold for several weeks. That didn't sit well with Banks and Naomi, and when Vince McMahon shot down the duo's pitch to work with Nikki A.S.H. and Doudrop at Hell In A Cell, they left Raw in protest.
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Any hope for a quick resolution seemingly went up in smoke on Friday Night SmackDown last week when it was revealed that the pair had been stripped of their tag-team titles and suspended indefinitely. That lack of a real path forward became even more evident when Bryan Alvarez, during the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Live, stated that "(t)here are at this point zero plans for them to return, there is zero talk whatsoever about the two of them
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