The story continues to develop regarding the walkout of Naomi and Sasha Banks.
Naomi and Sasha Banks walked out of the arena last night at RAW tapings, citing they had not been treated fairly as champions. They handed in their titles and left the arena and WWE were forced to put together a main event at the last minute changing a six pack challenge to a one on one match within an hour of the beginning of the broadcast. WWE released a statement regarding the incident condemning the champions behavior.
Mike Johnson of PW Insider pieced together the narrative of what went down backstage last night.
The original plan was for the six-pack challenge to determine a new #1 contender for the Raw Women’s Championship. Naomi was set to win (whether she was supposed to pin Sasha is up for debate) and challenge Bianca Belair at Hell in a Cell.
An angle was supposed to be shot for SmackDown that would set up a match between Sasha Banks and Ronda Rousey for the SmackDown championship. Both Naomi and Banks were planned to lose to the respective champions. Sasha Banks and Naomi didn’t like the idea and voiced their concerns to the powers that be.
At one point, a tag team match was pitched between Banks and Naomi and Nikki A.S.H. and Doudrop. That has not been confirmed 100% but seems likely. WWE Producer Molly Holly then informed Sasha and Naomi that the six-pack challenge was the direction, with Naomi winning the match.
Shortly after Banks and Naomi were told of the plan, they visited John Laurinaitis to tell him they were leaving. That is when they left the women’s tag titles behind. Vince McMahon found out just after the show went on the air, and the plan was pitched to change the main event to Becky Lynch vs Asuka. That idea may have been pitched by Becky herself.
PW Insider
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H/T PW Insider
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