10 Wrestlers Who Will Change The Business Over The Next 10 Years
2. Sasha Banks
Sasha Banks has earned the trust of WWE management.
This is a real process through which the company affords creative control and a regular key spot. The time taken to earn it - and the weird machinations that drive it - often stigmatises the talent before they can benefit. But that's by the by. Banks, and Bayley, have both after a farcical 2018 in particular established themselves, essentially, as workers who know what the f*ck it is they are doing. This was obvious five years ago, but again: by the by.
She has also earned their fear.
It used to be that, whenever a WWE star was remotely in the orbit of legitimate mainstream media, that WWE star was yet more glorified. It's telling that WWE has done little to promote Sasha's turn on the Mandalorian. They are sh*t-scared of losing her, just like they lost The Rock, John Cena and Batista.
All of which is to state that Banks - the fashionable and very popular act capable of delivering exceptional, frenetic scraps who only turns 29 this year - will do one of two things over the next decade:
1) Excel within the WWE system and make it better, extorting her cachet into the top heel role at which she excels, in the process making the Women's Revolution more than a fading marketing tactic.
2) Make the move to Hollywood and revolutionise a new career path as the Rock of women's wrestling.