8 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Aug 28)

2. "I Will Get My Vengeance"

Bayley Sasha Banks
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Those who are waking up in a cold sweat at the prospect of Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax working some sort of tense championship double act for the next month or so should be very worried. The look Sasha Banks shot Bayley on this week's SmackDown hints that the 'Golden Role Models' will be losing their Women's Tag Titles at Payback.

Aw sh*t.

So, why is this an 'Up'? Well, it's impossible to dislike the character work Sasha and Bayley are doing at the moment. The latter repeatedly put her foot in it by accidentally dissing Banks' abilities as a champion, then apologised for coming across as an ass. Sasha seemed to accept before shooting that glare visible in the pic above.

"I will get my vengeance", she said as she stared a hole through Bayley. Her co-champ didn't see it, presumably thinking Sasha was aiming her verbal volley at Baszler and Jax. This is, by quite some margin, one of the best slow-burn stories in wrestling.

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