When I see a career like Sasha has been having, all I can think of is..... does she have heat or something, because none of what we're seeing makes ANY sense. I feel like she has/had all the check marks the WWE would want, as a top female of a company. She's hot, she can wrestle, she sells to many different demographics, and she's perfect for the PC-PG era WWE. So what gives? Look at this timeline.
a) She debuts red hot. One of the most over debuts in quite sometime. They put her in a faction, TEAM BAD. Okay....that's fine. I think Tamina and Naomi suck, but that's fine. She can be the ROCK of team bad (like he was for NoD). But they did NOTHING with Team Bad. You see how they're doing stuff with Fashion Police....like that's the sort of vignettes/segments Team BAD should've had. But they did NOTHING!! I think wwe.com exclusive stuff and that's it. It's a shame because this was the time to let Heel Sasha shine. Show the world at what she does best.
b) They break up TEAM Bad, RANDOMLY. This was the first real big blow to her career. For no reason, other than 'because', Sasha turns face. Unceremoniously too might I add. They break up and she's in the triple threat match. Why not keep her heel AND part of TEAM Bad. This was rough because now she's asked to cut face promos, where it's one of those things she can't do well. She starts to say "I'm the boss" as her ONLY go to.
c) She loses at wrestlemania. Interesting. Not a big problem if you ask me, because they wanted her to chase a bit more, and they wanted to get more out of the charlotte character...that's fine. No issues there. From April-Summerslam, the idea should have been to get Sasha as over as possible as a character. Squash matches, small feuds... hell my idea was to have her join NEW DAY. I think putting her as the female of NEw DAy would've been amazing. Let the New Day cut the promos, she stands there looking confident, and everyone wins. But they don't do ANYTHING. Just a bunch of 'eh' face stuff. you can blame the lack of depth of the womens roster at the time, but it shuld not have mattered because all you wanted to do was get sasha's CHARACTER over.
d) She loses at Summerslam. Haha what? The WWE must've thought her momentum died (yeah because of WWE's lack of effort) so they said summerslam...nah. Ooooookay?
e) Now we begin to 6 month feud with Charlotte, filled with "historic" matches, and the belt switching hand a milllion times. I didn't mind that part of it, becuase it showed that the two of them were equall...but they KEPT having her lose on PPV. The Raw wins are great, but the PPV wins ALWAYS mean more. Especially when one of those matches was HiAC and...
f) SHE LOSES THE IRON MAN MATCH IN THE MOST EMBARSSING WAY POSSIBLE! Okay here we go. This is where all the crap is washed away and she wins the feud on top by winning the first iron man women match. Oh...she taps out with 3 seconds left, while looking right at the clock? haha so not only does she lose...she looks like a fucking moron. She loses and in really rare form...the HEEL wins the feud TOTALLY CLEAN. That's right. It's forever determined that Charlotte is better than Sasha. Ouch
g) Does she get her moentum back from that? Nope. The following 6 months is loss...loss...loss...loss...loss..and losss. She loses to Nia. She loses early at wrestlemania. And is now going toe to toe with Alicia Fox!? Her feuding with Fox is great, it kills time...but she's losing CLEAN to Alicia Fox!? dear lord.
So my question is...why is this happening? What is it about Sasha that the WWE doesnt' like...OR is there something she's done backstage to cause heat?
Now look, I realize that her promo skills aren't great...but, so what? If that's her big weakness, don't expose it, and let her other strengths shine through (charisma and wrestling skills).
The only possibility is that they're playing the long game here. They know they'll have her around for a long time, so they're saving all the good Sasha stuff for later?
It's really bizarre. If she gets serverely injured and they never get to utilize her potential....that would be a shame
a) She debuts red hot. One of the most over debuts in quite sometime. They put her in a faction, TEAM BAD. Okay....that's fine. I think Tamina and Naomi suck, but that's fine. She can be the ROCK of team bad (like he was for NoD). But they did NOTHING with Team Bad. You see how they're doing stuff with Fashion Police....like that's the sort of vignettes/segments Team BAD should've had. But they did NOTHING!! I think wwe.com exclusive stuff and that's it. It's a shame because this was the time to let Heel Sasha shine. Show the world at what she does best.
b) They break up TEAM Bad, RANDOMLY. This was the first real big blow to her career. For no reason, other than 'because', Sasha turns face. Unceremoniously too might I add. They break up and she's in the triple threat match. Why not keep her heel AND part of TEAM Bad. This was rough because now she's asked to cut face promos, where it's one of those things she can't do well. She starts to say "I'm the boss" as her ONLY go to.
c) She loses at wrestlemania. Interesting. Not a big problem if you ask me, because they wanted her to chase a bit more, and they wanted to get more out of the charlotte character...that's fine. No issues there. From April-Summerslam, the idea should have been to get Sasha as over as possible as a character. Squash matches, small feuds... hell my idea was to have her join NEW DAY. I think putting her as the female of NEw DAy would've been amazing. Let the New Day cut the promos, she stands there looking confident, and everyone wins. But they don't do ANYTHING. Just a bunch of 'eh' face stuff. you can blame the lack of depth of the womens roster at the time, but it shuld not have mattered because all you wanted to do was get sasha's CHARACTER over.
d) She loses at Summerslam. Haha what? The WWE must've thought her momentum died (yeah because of WWE's lack of effort) so they said summerslam...nah. Ooooookay?
e) Now we begin to 6 month feud with Charlotte, filled with "historic" matches, and the belt switching hand a milllion times. I didn't mind that part of it, becuase it showed that the two of them were equall...but they KEPT having her lose on PPV. The Raw wins are great, but the PPV wins ALWAYS mean more. Especially when one of those matches was HiAC and...
f) SHE LOSES THE IRON MAN MATCH IN THE MOST EMBARSSING WAY POSSIBLE! Okay here we go. This is where all the crap is washed away and she wins the feud on top by winning the first iron man women match. Oh...she taps out with 3 seconds left, while looking right at the clock? haha so not only does she lose...she looks like a fucking moron. She loses and in really rare form...the HEEL wins the feud TOTALLY CLEAN. That's right. It's forever determined that Charlotte is better than Sasha. Ouch
g) Does she get her moentum back from that? Nope. The following 6 months is loss...loss...loss...loss...loss..and losss. She loses to Nia. She loses early at wrestlemania. And is now going toe to toe with Alicia Fox!? Her feuding with Fox is great, it kills time...but she's losing CLEAN to Alicia Fox!? dear lord.
So my question is...why is this happening? What is it about Sasha that the WWE doesnt' like...OR is there something she's done backstage to cause heat?
Now look, I realize that her promo skills aren't great...but, so what? If that's her big weakness, don't expose it, and let her other strengths shine through (charisma and wrestling skills).
The only possibility is that they're playing the long game here. They know they'll have her around for a long time, so they're saving all the good Sasha stuff for later?
It's really bizarre. If she gets serverely injured and they never get to utilize her potential....that would be a shame