WWE star and a former six times WWE Women’s champion Sasha Banks who is a former NXT Women’s champion and also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently pointed out the differences between WWE and the independent circuit wrestling.
A lot of professional wrestling fans are not aware of the fact that Sasha Banks spent two years of her early career on the independent circuit. In 2012 she was selected by WWE and she started working in the new WWE development territory which was WWE NXT.
Sasha Banks Discusses The Difference Between WWE And Indies
She worked in the NXT for three years before joining the main roster in 2015. She was one of the most popular stars of the NXT and she was destined to be a big star on the main roster as well. It was just a matter of time before WWE actually started to push her to be one of the faces of the promotion.
She won her first WWE women’s Championship back in 2016 when she defeated the then WWE Women’s champion Charlotte Flair in a episode of Monday night RAW. Later the WWE SmackDown women’s championship was created and the title Sasha was holding became WWE Raw Women’s championship for the first time.
Slowly she became one of the faces of the promotion and she featured in some of the first-ever stipulated women’s matches WWE history including the first ever women’s Hell in a Cell match along with Charlotte Flair. She performed quite excellently in all of her matches.
Currently she is working in WWE SmackDown even though she is not in the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship picture. Right now she is not involved in any feud but we hope she would get involved in storyline before Wrestlemania. She must feature in the grandest stage of them all.
Sasha Banks who is a former NXT Women’s champion and also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Mark Andrews: My Love Letter to Wrestling where she pointed out the differences between WWE and the independent circuit wrestling. She said;
“It was so hard because I came in like, ‘I know how to wrestle.’ Then I got slapped in the face and I said, ‘No you don’t. Not WWE style.
“There is so much more to it. We are a television show, so number one, we have to understand the audience that we are performing in front of the camera. It’s scary when you have to be in such a zone where you have thousands of fans yelling at you. You have the red light looking at you. You have people on the floor going, ‘Go, go, go.’ You have the referee. You have the new person in the ring.
“It’s so much coming from the independent scene where it was like, ‘Do whatever.’ There was no psychology. No time cues. It was like, ‘Let me do a superkick because I’m doing my favorite moves from my favorite wrestlers.’ When you come to WWE, it’s a whole different ball game going from the independents to NXT.
“That was a whole different level as well, but WWE RAW/SmackDown, there’s no comparison.”
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