Shotzi was one of seven women who put their bodies on the line over the weekend during the Money in the Bank ladder match. The match was eventually won by Liv Morgan who went on to cash in and become SmackDown Women’s Champion by defeating Ronda Rousey later in the night.
Despite the good feelings received for Morgan’s first big win and her first title in the company, the match received much criticism from fans on social media. Shotzi in particular received the worst of the critiques calling her out for performance and even some saying she should be fired from the company.
Shotzi has taken to Twitter to address those who took it to the extreme with their reactions and comments and had the following to say:
“There are 3 things I care about at the end of a match. Is everyone safe? Did everyone have fun? Did the crowd react? Nobody got hurt. We all had a blast and the Vegas crowd was HotHotHot! I felt on top of the world after that match and was so excited to finally have my first hardcore match in over a year. I wouldn’t have done anything I didn’t practice or thought I couldn’t do safely. But I’m not a wrestle robot, I’m human and slips happen especially in a CHAOTIC UNPREDICTABLE ladder match! I can take a joke and laugh at myself (one of the first things I said was ‘I can’t wait to see that spot on botchamania”) but comments like ‘you should be fired’ and other terrible things admittedly hit hard. I had to have a few friends wipe my tears off my face and slap some sense into me and remind me WHO THE F I AM! That being said, all of my haters can SUCK MY BIG GIANT HAIRY MANGOS!”
A moment during that match that many fans criticized was a spot with Alexa Bliss where the two seemingly lost their balance and fell into a ladder with Bliss on the shoulders of Shotzi. Bliss reacted to Shotzi’s Twitter response with the following –
“This is why I don’t like Twitter most of the time – ppl are always to bash everything – if people only knew what all goes into what we do – & the chaos of that day haha everyone is safe & we all had fun.”
