{"id":139655,"date":"2022-05-17T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=139655"},"modified":"2022-05-17T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:34:34","slug":"creative-issues-that-led-to-sasha-banks-and-naomi-walkout-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/17\/creative-issues-that-led-to-sasha-banks-and-naomi-walkout-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative issues that led to Sasha Banks and Naomi walkout revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-315779270\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>The creative issues that led to Sasha Banks and Naomi walking out of Monday Night Raw this week were rooted in their direction as a tag team and the direction of the WWE women&#8217;s division as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/\">Fightful<\/a> is reporting that recent creative pitches from Banks and Naomi were not green lit. The duo wanted to work with Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H at the Hell in a Cell PPV event for the Women&#8217;s Tag Team Championship. Banks and Naomi reportedly pitched that Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H. interfere in the Naomi vs. Bianca Belair match that WWE officials wanted at Hell in a Cell, but that pitch was shot down too.<\/p>\n<p>The report indicates that the WWE wanted to to go with Naomi vs. Belair for the Raw Women&#8217;s Championship and Sasha Banks vs. Ronda Rousey for the Smackdown Women&#8217;s Championship at Hell in a Cell.<\/p>\n<p>WWE released a statement Monday night that confirmed the walkout and revealed that Banks and Naomi didn&#8217;t want to work with certain talent in the match because they were unsafe. WWE apologized for not being able to deliver on the advertised main event.<\/p>\n<p>Banks and Naomi have been the WWE Women&#8217;s Tag Team Champions since WrestleMania 38. They joined together as a team in the weeks leading up WrestleMania, but also have history together and were a team upon Banks&#8217; arrival to the WWE main roster in 2015.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/16\/monday-night-raw-main-event-changed-due-to-talent-walkout\/\">Monday Night Raw main event changed due to talent walkout<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1419602018\"><div id=\"pwtor-2288397732\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The creative issues that led to Sasha Banks and Naomi walking out of Monday Night Raw this week were rooted in their direction as a tag team and the direction of the WWE women&#8217;s division <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/17\/creative-issues-that-led-to-sasha-banks-and-naomi-walkout-revealed\/\" title=\"Creative issues that led to Sasha Banks and Naomi walkout revealed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":139656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[240,321,96,213,71],"class_list":["post-139655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-monday-night-raw","tag-naomi","tag-raw","tag-sasha-banks","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/05\/Sasha-Banks-and-Naomi.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139657,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139655\/revisions\/139657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}