Shayna Baszler is in her third reign as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion. This time with Ronda Rousey (previously with Nia Jax). The team became champs a couple of weeks ago in a Fatal Four Way match after the belts had to be relinquished due to Liv Morgan’s injury.
While speaking on WWE’s The Bump on Wednesday, Baszler has the same sentiment as Rousey – both women are tired of the tag titles taking a backseat.
“I want the same thing she [Ronda] wants. We want to put more women on the scene. There’s are important. They’re titles, we’re champions. It’s long enough that it’s happened where it’s like, ‘Oh man, a PPV’s coming up, I better find someone in the locker room to team up with. Like, get some friends! Be a team! Ronda and I have been friends for 10 years. Why is it not looked down on that everyone in the locker room only suddenly wants to work with someone when it’s a pay per view opportunity? That’s so opportunistic. We want to put these at the forefront. I think it gets looked past the work that I did when I held these the first time. Worked all three shows. I’m pretty sure we defended these more than anyone had in the past up to that point. But, you know, all everyone talks about is Bayley‘s reign with these titles and blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. Like, I’ve done some work with these too, and it’s not stopping. We immediately defended, we immediately went after the NXT Tag Champions. There’s no break in the storm that we’re causing,” she said. (Fightful)
Baszler and Rousey are now set to face Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn to unify the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships. With more teams on the main roster than there have been for years and many in NXT forming, who will step up to whomever becomes the unified champs?
That match is set to take place on the June 23 SmackDown.
