WWE have dropped the ball so many times with Sasha Banks and Bayley now that it's genuinely surprising there's still any kind of campaign for Women's Tag Team Championships at all.
The duo symbolise how little WWE actually care about the entire women's division, if not the top storylines in the league. Because the NXT icons weren't in the title picture, their hostilities were reduced to silliness echoing the doldrums of the divas division rather than some of 2018's tremendous tussles. Between make-ups and break-ups, the pair were sent to soulless "counselling" sessions (as if competing against one another wasn't their actual job...) after a tacit tease of something beyond just friendship was hurriedly dropped.
They've just about stayed on track since making amends, but said track is headed nowhere in particular until another eventual crash.
Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett
