Inside months, it was overshadowed by scandal and one other backstage drama. However for some time in 2022, Sasha Banks & Naomi’s exit from WWE was the wrestling world’s massive behind-the-scenes story.
It finally appears to have labored out nicely for all concerned. Naomi had an excellent run in TNA beneath her actual first identify Trinity earlier than returning to WWE, the place girls’s wrestling continues to thrive (regardless of persevering with to really feel “cursed” for a very long time, one might argue that even the tag belts Banks & Naomi had been stripped of after strolling out are lastly in a greater place). Sasha took the identify Mercedes Moné, received paid by AEW’s Tony Khan, and after dropping a yr to damage appears poised to proceed wrestling everywhere in the globe.
However there would definitely be curiosity in Mercedes & Trinity’s detailed account of what occurred on that Could 16 night. Whereas selling AEW Forbidden Door on WFAN, Moné teased her model of the story. It’s not one thing we’ll get any time quickly, nevertheless:
“For thus a few years, everybody needs the tea on that drama. You’re not going to get it except you purchase the e book, possibly ten years later.”
Proper now, AEW’s TBS champion is continuous to place a optimistic spin on her WWE run & exit, whereas specializing in her current & futue:
“For me, I went from a Legit Boss to a CEO as a result of I needed to develop. There was one thing in my soul that mentioned, ‘You must develop.’ I needed to be the CEO of my very own life. There was a light-weight supply that got here into my coronary heart that day. ‘It’s a must to do what’s best for you. What’s occurring proper now at this second will not be proper. It’s a must to take your life in your palms and go make it occur. Go make your coronary heart joyful. Go allow them to know that what they’re doing proper now’s improper and present them.’ I did.
“I needed to allow them to know that I’m the proper one that you simply messed with that day, and now right here I’m in the present day, one of many highest-paid girls in girls’s wrestling historical past. The TBS Champion goes after the New Japan Sturdy Girls’s Championship this Sunday [in a Title for Title match at Sunday’s PPV on Long Island]. I get to take action a lot of my desires due to that day that I walked out and trusted my coronary heart.
“I’ve so many family and friends there, nonetheless in WWE. That place is at all times going to be a particular place in my coronary heart as a result of that’s what I grew up watching; that was my objective in life, and I received to perform and dwell out all my desires there. I can’t assume there can be sufficient for all the alternative that they gave me, however I’m right here to make extra. I’m right here to place girls’s wrestling on the map and make it globalized, so it’s not only one place for individuals to observe girls’s wrestling. I would like individuals to observe it everywhere in the world, and I would like followers to know that there’s so many superb, unbelievable girls performers in every single place.”
For extra, we’ll simply have to attend for that 2034 e book launch.
H/t WrestlingNews.co
