Sasha Banks is considered to be one of the top female WWE Superstars in the history of the company. Many also consider her the greatest technical female wrestler of this generation. She has already solidified her legacy in the WWE by competing in some of the best matches in the company’s history.
But for those who have noticed, Sasha Banks is also one of those superstars who opt to take a break from the WWE schedule at regular intervals. For example, she was pulled from the 2021 WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view and was absent for a few weeks.
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However, she made her shocking return to WWE television at Extreme Rules and since then she became one of the mainstays of WWE television once again. This appears to be a strategic timeout for her from the hectic WWE schedule that once forced her into depression.
Sasha Banks’ struggles in the aftermath of WrestleMania 35 have been documented several times in the past. She was so devastated at that point that she went ahead and asked for her WWE release.
At that point, the former Smackdown Women’s Champion was also dealing with a separated shoulder injury that occurred in January but she still performed at Wrestlemania 35 in April. She talked all about the struggles in an interview with The Athletic.
“I had a Make-A-Wish the next day and I couldn’t move, couldn’t put my clothes on, couldn’t do my hair,” Sasha Banks said. “Bayley had to come into my room and do that. I didn’t want to tell anybody. Those titles meant so much to me.”
Sasha Banks detailed her issues in the past in the WWE
Sasha Banks proceeded to talk about her issues with depression at that time which led her to contact Vince McMahon for her release from the WWE. The pledge was obviously denied by the WWE owner and chairman. This experience led to Banks realizing the fact that she needed to take time off from wrestling in order to figure out what she wanted from her life outside wrestling.
“I felt so sad every day and I didn’t know why,” Sasha Banks said. “I had to take myself away from a situation and such a fast world where I had to stop and realize who Mercedes was and who Sasha Banks was. I had no time off. I never got to see myself, my family. I took that time to figure out what I loved besides wrestling.”
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Ultimately, Sasha Banks did find something to keep balance in wrestling as well as family life. The top WWE Star also appeared in season two of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian to kick off her Hollywood stint. Now she wants to do even bigger things in movies where people would know her as the female equivalent to The Rock and John Cena.
