Str8Shooter wrote:They won't turn her heel because they have no good babyfaces on Raw, especially after they completely fucked up Bayley's character to the point she was getting booed. I firmly believe Sasha was going to turn heel on Bayley but they figured Sasha would get cheered over her so they changed plans.
The fans are beginning to turn on Sasha too though. So I'm not sure her getting cheered against Bayley is such a big concern. Also, they've been bottling the Sasha/Bayley thing since before Bayley started getting a negative reaction. Any fan or booker or wrestler in the world would have said at the start of the year that Bayley should win the title at Wrestlemania from Charlotte, and then Sasha would turn on Bayley at or before their match at Summerslam in Brooklyn - the rematch of their MOTY in the same city two years ago. It was the best kind of predictable story. It was obvious, but only because it was what everyone wanted to see.
Despite this being what everyone predicted, WWE has never shown interest in going that direction. Bayley won the title prematurely in a way that made her seem heelish, they had a nothing fatal fourway title match at Wrestlemania and then Bayley lost the title to Bliss almost immediately. That Bayley/Banks collision that everyone was predicting never seemed to be on their radar. I have no idea why either. I guess they just wanted to put all their focus on Bliss because she's a good talker (and I like Bliss, but her run should have waited) and Nia Jax because she's big.
They actually couldn't have done a better job of destroying the Raw women's division if they had been trying. The only female wrestler there who hasn't gone down in people's estimation in 2017 is Bliss. At this point, I say bring Asuka up as the badass babyface and let her destroy everyone for the foreseeable future. There's nobody else there I care about by now.