I believe this because with the current angle going on, you can trace it all the way to last Summer or even before that. Everything that happened then, ties into what's currently going on now despite the players involved somewhat rotating. This whole Charlotte/Bayley versus Sasha/Becky thing is a continuation of something Summer Rae and Paige started.
Let's go over eveything that has happened in the Women's divsion of NXT thus far:
Summer Rae debuts and tries to end Paige's career in her pursuit to dominate the divsion and that results in Summer Rae losing to Paige:
Plot 1: Paige and Emma vs Summer Rae
As they continue to feud, A Divas tournament happens for the NXT Women's Championship and the girls that make it through are Paige, Emma, and Summer Rae (amusingly so she eliminated Sasha Banks to proceed in the tournament)...This leads into a match between Emma and Summer Rae where Summer Rae gets eliminated and Emma and Paige are left fighting for the Divas title.
Summer Rae manages to weasel her way into a Number One spot by injuring Emma after losing a Dance off:
Despite Summer Rae losing that title match that she weaseled her way into, She ends up once again getting the upper hand on Emma out of jealousy:
In one promo around this time, Emma said that her destiny to win the belt would have to wait until she rectifies the situation with Summer Rae being a thorn in her side but I cant quite remember if it was before or after the above match.
Meanwhile.......as all of this was going on:
Subplot 1: Charlotte/Bayley/Sasha Banks - The planting of the Seeds
Charlotte and Ric Flair make it known that she's coming to NXT and the first person to befriend her is...Bayley, when she gleefully obliges to be Charlotte's opponent in this debut match:
Charlotte would then beat Sasha Banks in a friendly contest during a time when all 3 of these girls were faces:
The Plots Start to Interwine:
After Summer Rae blinded Emma with her own bubble solution in the last video link of Plot 1, Sasha Banks decides to call Summer out on her cowardly actions but Summer decides to try to get inside her head so she can have her bases covered when she ignites her next set of fires:
Which is amusing because the last matches Sasha had on NXT were losses to Charlotte and Summer Rae yet she decides to tell Sasha to "get it together" and it doesnt end there. She gets inside her head again the next week by trying to tell Sasha that Paige sees the NXT divas as being beneath her due to calling herself the Anti-Diva:
That same night, Renee Young brings this up to Paige in an interview segment regarding their planned match and of course Paige gives a reply regarding the definition of "Anti-Diva":
Paige and Sasha then have their match the next week and it leads to Sasha becoming a sore loser due to Summer Rae getting more and more inside her head:
So Sasha and Summer would not only become thorns in the side of Paige but also Emma's when she returned to NXT to get revenge on Summer:
They also would start to ignite issues with Charlotte/Bayley after picking on her by breaking her headband.
So it seemed that Sasha and Summer were going to try manipulating Bayley into being their ally and that Charlotte would be the one to stand up to them in this particular segment:
However that turned out to NOT be in the case after what took place here:
So it turned out that Charlotte would be the one to double cross Bayley and join Summer/Sasha to form the BFFs and Bayley wanted an explanation:
Meanwhile Paige and Emma would gradually become more and more sidetracked and focus on their brewing hostilities toward each other due to incidents caused in their feud with the BFFs:
During this time, periodically Natalya would come down to help Bayley and Emma in their feud with the BFFs by either managing them during their matches or appearing in tag matches.
As time would go on Summer Rae would be gradually less involved in the affairs of the BFFs and it would become more about Charlotte/Sasha Banks during her absence.
Anyway, Summer Rae would periodically return to assist Charlotte and Sasha in their feud with Bayley by distracting her and causing her to lose to Charlotte.
With the exception of one 6 person tag match with the help of Paige and Emma, Bayley would mostly go on to be assisted by the likes of Becky Lynch and Natalya in Paige and Emma's absence.
This would lead to a feud between Charlotte and Natalya teased here that ended up culminating in a match at NXT Takeover:
Subplot 2: Becky Lynch
As mentioned before, Becky in her previous Riverdancer gimmick would go on to assist Bayley in fending off the BFFs as a lighthearted kindred Spirit but first she'd debut in a match against Summer Rae during one of her sporadic assists to the BFFs:
Even though the clip is short, the match was mostly Becky dominating Summer Rae with no help from Charlotte and Sasha. Which was an early sign of dissension in the BFFs.
After a while of tension building between Charlotte, Sasha and Summer Rae, the BFFs would essentially end after this tag match:
It's not shown in the clip but after the match, Charlotte would let Bayley attack Sasha and after that she would go on to disband the BFFs. Becky Lynch, not long after, would go on to take time off for a repackaging
Plot 2: Charlotte/Bayley's feud and reconciliation
So not long after the group disbanded, Summer Rae would go on to defeat Bayley in a #1 Contendership match for a shot at Charlotte's title in a losing effort that would mark the end of Summer Rae in NXT permanently.
While Sasha and Bayley both ended up in pursuit of the title, it resulted in Bayley finally beating Sasha Banks in a #1 Contender's match for a shot at NXT Takeover: Fatal 4 Way.
In the build up for the match, Bayley would gradually go on to show more courage while Charlotte would constantly talk down to her and make it known that she doesnt take her seriously because she's too nice.
Charlotte would go on to defeat Bayley in both the match at Takeover and a rematch two weeks later on NXT but she would go on to respect and befriend Bayley due to seeing just how courageous she is in their matches.
Subplot 3: The return of Becky Lynch
Meanwhile during the feud between Bayley and Charlotte, Becky Lynch would return repackaged in a more "Rocker" persona with a serious presentation and go on to lose matches like this to Charlotte:
This however was just yet another seed being planted for the future
The Stories Once Again Intertwine:
As Sasha makes her way into a number one contendership spot for the NXT Women's title, she also gains a new ally in Becky Lynch.
The seeds were ironically planted after Becky Lynch lost to Sasha in this match:
In a repeating of history after Sasha attacked Bayley, Becky would go on to call Sasha on her actions and Sasha would get inside her head the same way Summer Rae did to her.
So after Sasha beat Bayley in a match, this happens:
Becky would then turn heel on Bayley and her reasoning would be that she's decided to align herself with people that are successful instead of constantly losing matches like she was against Charlotte and Sasha.
This would also become another cog in the feud between Charlotte and Sasha's feud as Charlotte and Bayley would go against them in tag matches. Becky and Sasha would also continue to either attack Bayley or defeat her in matches over the course of several episodes.
Charlotte during her feud with Sasha would once warn Bayley to stay away from those two while she's gone but Bayley ends up getting herself crippled by Becky and Sasha in the go home shows for NXT Takeover: (R) Evolution.
Charlotte would then defeat Sasha Banks at R:Evolution on the same night of yet another ambush on Bayley by Becky and Sasha, which would lead to Bayley losing yet again to Becky and Sasha losing again to Charlotte...which is where we are currently in the story.
Final thoughts: If you look at this plot from beginning to now, It comes off as Paige and Emma only being able to fend off the BFFs but Charlotte seemingly destroyed them from the inside and it's possibly her only reason for double crossing Bayley to join them. I've yet to see a feud with this much attention to detail and layers to it because of how much this has went on but with different players involved.
Has anyone noticed how much continuity the NXT divas division has had in their feuds and if so, what are your thoughts on all this? I personally think it's a real shame that this kind of detail or even half of it doesnt go into anything on the main roster
Also, who do you think will get involved in this feud next? I predict Alexa Bliss due her constantly losing to Charlotte and Sasha and last being seen getting pulverized by Sasha in a short match
Let's go over eveything that has happened in the Women's divsion of NXT thus far:
Summer Rae debuts and tries to end Paige's career in her pursuit to dominate the divsion and that results in Summer Rae losing to Paige:
Plot 1: Paige and Emma vs Summer Rae
As they continue to feud, A Divas tournament happens for the NXT Women's Championship and the girls that make it through are Paige, Emma, and Summer Rae (amusingly so she eliminated Sasha Banks to proceed in the tournament)...This leads into a match between Emma and Summer Rae where Summer Rae gets eliminated and Emma and Paige are left fighting for the Divas title.
Summer Rae manages to weasel her way into a Number One spot by injuring Emma after losing a Dance off:
Despite Summer Rae losing that title match that she weaseled her way into, She ends up once again getting the upper hand on Emma out of jealousy:
In one promo around this time, Emma said that her destiny to win the belt would have to wait until she rectifies the situation with Summer Rae being a thorn in her side but I cant quite remember if it was before or after the above match.
Meanwhile.......as all of this was going on:
Subplot 1: Charlotte/Bayley/Sasha Banks - The planting of the Seeds
Charlotte and Ric Flair make it known that she's coming to NXT and the first person to befriend her is...Bayley, when she gleefully obliges to be Charlotte's opponent in this debut match:
Charlotte would then beat Sasha Banks in a friendly contest during a time when all 3 of these girls were faces:
The Plots Start to Interwine:
After Summer Rae blinded Emma with her own bubble solution in the last video link of Plot 1, Sasha Banks decides to call Summer out on her cowardly actions but Summer decides to try to get inside her head so she can have her bases covered when she ignites her next set of fires:
Which is amusing because the last matches Sasha had on NXT were losses to Charlotte and Summer Rae yet she decides to tell Sasha to "get it together" and it doesnt end there. She gets inside her head again the next week by trying to tell Sasha that Paige sees the NXT divas as being beneath her due to calling herself the Anti-Diva:
That same night, Renee Young brings this up to Paige in an interview segment regarding their planned match and of course Paige gives a reply regarding the definition of "Anti-Diva":
Paige and Sasha then have their match the next week and it leads to Sasha becoming a sore loser due to Summer Rae getting more and more inside her head:
So Sasha and Summer would not only become thorns in the side of Paige but also Emma's when she returned to NXT to get revenge on Summer:
They also would start to ignite issues with Charlotte/Bayley after picking on her by breaking her headband.
So it seemed that Sasha and Summer were going to try manipulating Bayley into being their ally and that Charlotte would be the one to stand up to them in this particular segment:
However that turned out to NOT be in the case after what took place here:
So it turned out that Charlotte would be the one to double cross Bayley and join Summer/Sasha to form the BFFs and Bayley wanted an explanation:
Meanwhile Paige and Emma would gradually become more and more sidetracked and focus on their brewing hostilities toward each other due to incidents caused in their feud with the BFFs:
During this time, periodically Natalya would come down to help Bayley and Emma in their feud with the BFFs by either managing them during their matches or appearing in tag matches.
As time would go on Summer Rae would be gradually less involved in the affairs of the BFFs and it would become more about Charlotte/Sasha Banks during her absence.
Anyway, Summer Rae would periodically return to assist Charlotte and Sasha in their feud with Bayley by distracting her and causing her to lose to Charlotte.
With the exception of one 6 person tag match with the help of Paige and Emma, Bayley would mostly go on to be assisted by the likes of Becky Lynch and Natalya in Paige and Emma's absence.
This would lead to a feud between Charlotte and Natalya teased here that ended up culminating in a match at NXT Takeover:
Subplot 2: Becky Lynch
As mentioned before, Becky in her previous Riverdancer gimmick would go on to assist Bayley in fending off the BFFs as a lighthearted kindred Spirit but first she'd debut in a match against Summer Rae during one of her sporadic assists to the BFFs:
Even though the clip is short, the match was mostly Becky dominating Summer Rae with no help from Charlotte and Sasha. Which was an early sign of dissension in the BFFs.
After a while of tension building between Charlotte, Sasha and Summer Rae, the BFFs would essentially end after this tag match:
It's not shown in the clip but after the match, Charlotte would let Bayley attack Sasha and after that she would go on to disband the BFFs. Becky Lynch, not long after, would go on to take time off for a repackaging
Plot 2: Charlotte/Bayley's feud and reconciliation
So not long after the group disbanded, Summer Rae would go on to defeat Bayley in a #1 Contendership match for a shot at Charlotte's title in a losing effort that would mark the end of Summer Rae in NXT permanently.
While Sasha and Bayley both ended up in pursuit of the title, it resulted in Bayley finally beating Sasha Banks in a #1 Contender's match for a shot at NXT Takeover: Fatal 4 Way.
In the build up for the match, Bayley would gradually go on to show more courage while Charlotte would constantly talk down to her and make it known that she doesnt take her seriously because she's too nice.
Charlotte would go on to defeat Bayley in both the match at Takeover and a rematch two weeks later on NXT but she would go on to respect and befriend Bayley due to seeing just how courageous she is in their matches.
Subplot 3: The return of Becky Lynch
Meanwhile during the feud between Bayley and Charlotte, Becky Lynch would return repackaged in a more "Rocker" persona with a serious presentation and go on to lose matches like this to Charlotte:
This however was just yet another seed being planted for the future
The Stories Once Again Intertwine:
As Sasha makes her way into a number one contendership spot for the NXT Women's title, she also gains a new ally in Becky Lynch.
The seeds were ironically planted after Becky Lynch lost to Sasha in this match:
In a repeating of history after Sasha attacked Bayley, Becky would go on to call Sasha on her actions and Sasha would get inside her head the same way Summer Rae did to her.
So after Sasha beat Bayley in a match, this happens:
Becky would then turn heel on Bayley and her reasoning would be that she's decided to align herself with people that are successful instead of constantly losing matches like she was against Charlotte and Sasha.
This would also become another cog in the feud between Charlotte and Sasha's feud as Charlotte and Bayley would go against them in tag matches. Becky and Sasha would also continue to either attack Bayley or defeat her in matches over the course of several episodes.
Charlotte during her feud with Sasha would once warn Bayley to stay away from those two while she's gone but Bayley ends up getting herself crippled by Becky and Sasha in the go home shows for NXT Takeover: (R) Evolution.
Charlotte would then defeat Sasha Banks at R:Evolution on the same night of yet another ambush on Bayley by Becky and Sasha, which would lead to Bayley losing yet again to Becky and Sasha losing again to Charlotte...which is where we are currently in the story.
Final thoughts: If you look at this plot from beginning to now, It comes off as Paige and Emma only being able to fend off the BFFs but Charlotte seemingly destroyed them from the inside and it's possibly her only reason for double crossing Bayley to join them. I've yet to see a feud with this much attention to detail and layers to it because of how much this has went on but with different players involved.
Has anyone noticed how much continuity the NXT divas division has had in their feuds and if so, what are your thoughts on all this? I personally think it's a real shame that this kind of detail or even half of it doesnt go into anything on the main roster
Also, who do you think will get involved in this feud next? I predict Alexa Bliss due her constantly losing to Charlotte and Sasha and last being seen getting pulverized by Sasha in a short match