Shayna Baszler is confident fans will see a new evolution to her on screen character.
Baszler doesn’t necessarily agree that she’s “back.” Instead, this current chapter of her career is a new evolution. In an interview with Rick Ucchino of the Bleav in Pro Wrestling Podcast, Baszler was asked to share her thoughts about fans who are saying she’s “back”, given the way she has showcased her dominance in recent weeks. In response, she stated that this is a new evolution, and fans will find out who she is becoming.
“I think the little bit you’ve seen, this is a totally different evolution of Shayna Baszler, so it took me a second to get my footing on Raw, and I think that’s not a big secret. Millions can see that, you can log into Peacock and watch all of that. But I think, being in the tag division, I know it’s not my thing, like my bread and butter’s the singles stuff, but I think it helped me kinda find my footing. Now, that gauntlet match that night, it’s like, you know what, like it’s go time. Let’s go. Now you see, here I am. But keep watching. Definitely I’m more comfortable like being where I’m at than I was before, but rather looking at it like Shayna’s back, it’s like, ‘What is Shayna becoming?’”
“I don’t know if I ever really thought the long game timeline in that sense. I’m always very hyper focused on what I’m doing. So I’m, okay, we make this agreement, I’m in the tag division, we’re gonna rule the tag division right now. Obviously the dream for anybody that gets into this business is win the title on a big show and have your moment. So it just so happens, there’s been, I don’t even think it’s as far back as 2020, but real recently, there’s been this, I don’t know, what am I doing right now? Then that gauntlet came about and it was like okay. It was like the perfect time of like, this change is about, change is in the air, this whole thing happens, and there’s a gauntlet match, and the women open SummerSlam and all this crazy stuff happened. Then like I think that very next Raw, the women were all over the show. I think they had like three matches and it was like okay, now’s the time to really get your poop in a group and get some stuff done. So yeah, regardless of how long it took, it’s happening now, and I’m not gonna waste it,“
Baszler on Bleav In Pro Wrestling Podcast
Baszler is set to take on Liv Morgan at WWE Clash At The Castle this weekend for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.
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