Why Sasha Banks Vs Bayley Means So Much To So Many

Reports emerged after the pay-per-view and the only-okay Monday Night Raw follow-up that Vince McMahon was at the centre of a finish that saw Bayley assume the role of referee to gift Sasha Banks Asuka's belt. Up to that point, it had been an incredibly hard-fought battle engineered entirely to continue Banks' gradual and elegant babyface turn.

The same beats were present in her ratings-gobbling NXT Great American Bash main event with Io Shirai weeks earlier, and had been features of the Tag Team Championship defences by the Golden Role Models since defeating Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross last month. Banks is turning with her actions rather than words. Out-front, she supports Bayley, nurturing their dominance in the process. Between the ropes, she's reminding everybody who the f*cking 'Boss' really is. If there were actual crowds in the buildings at present, enough objective evidence from the areas we can actually gather it suggest they'd be itching to cheer her.

The company that almost never crafts excellent longterm stories anymore has managed it, and one act from the increasingly unreliable Chairman has dented it. It took for this first major blunder in the current version Sasha Banks and Bayley's relationship to really explore what sentiment is attached to it.

For years (and because of the same increasingly unreliable Chairman), the emotion designed to sell tickets and t-shirts had been beaten out of the pair's loyalest supporters.

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