10 Things We Learned From WWE Chronicle: Sasha Banks

3. Megaboss

Sasha Banks
WWE

This bus craic, man, have WWE ever been more paranoid about whomever lurks backstage feeding wrestling journalists?

On several of these specials, we've now seen stars sent stir crazy over the course of one long day stewing on a tour bus with just a television pointed at Monday Night Raw, a select few confidants and the documentary camera crew for company.

More than just a way to keep comebacks and shocks a secret until they air live, has this strategy now become part of the pressure process for WWE? There must be something so incredibly euphoric about breaking out of such a confined space, not least in front of an adoring crowd popping like f*ck for something they hadn't previously expected.

Banks wears the scars here like every other talent forced into such stressful surrounds - she's nervous, apprehensive, impatient, excited and ultimately itching to return. For a performer who'd otherwise been desperate to disappear, this build-up had to incite everything within her WWE couldn't wait to see explode back out.

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