Out of Naomi and Sasha Banks, who y'all think had a better wrestling career outside of WWE?

Who y'all got?

  • Naomi Impact/TNA run

    Votes: 9 37.5%
  • Sasha Banks AEW run

    Votes: 15 62.5%

  • Total voters
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Norrin Radd

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I need a Rico shirt with the quote saying “You can’t win” when it comes to the majority of the IWC. Dude was on point with that.
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I can only imagine if she came in and won the title within a month. Brehs would be screaming in protest :russ:
maybe.
but at least people would care

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We have mountains of evidence that Khan cannot elevate someone above where the fans decide they are on the card once they're locked in on it. Roster full of people with world title potential who have been booked into 'who cares'

they at least could have gotten mileage out of the fear of a Mercedes Mone Reign of Terror.

Instead she's where everyone else in AEW is: wrestling great, great matches in front of increasingly dwindling crowds of people who care less with every show, because 3 hours of workrate gets exhausting when you don't give a shyt about the people doing them.

They honestly don't even need better booking. They need better character writing. The matches are whatever. Everything that happens around the matches is honestly what's torpedoing this company.
 

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And like I said, if she won the belt right now they’d bytch when she’s going after the midcard belt later on. :skip:

Giving her the TBS belt early on was a smart move because it saves her for the main event title picture as her career in the company moves on. And who knows, maybe this was HER IDEA to win the TBS belt. Reports said she has creative control, right? Why would she want a midcard belt if she can work her way into the main title picture right off the bat? :dead:
 

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There’s no comparison. Mone is an established talent who has earned her spot by proving it in the ring and as a character, and deserving of accolades she’s earned. Jade is still fresh.

But if you wanna go that way, Jade’s first year in AEW has been better than her first year in WWE.
in aew she hasn’t earned shyt
 

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Tony paid her a lot of money and brought in her own writer. She is doing everything she couldn't do in WWE. Cody came back and at least lost to Roman at WM 39. Has Mercedes been pinned in AEW yet?

She's a "star" in the sense she came from WWE. She isn't really over like that with the core AEW fanbase. I hope eventually she starts putting some other women over.
For what?
 

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I hate to interject myself into this kerfuffle. But someone explain to me how Mercedes mone my baby girl is the most popular star, literally, in pro wrestling

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In fairness to Ms 1 Milly, is that chart only counting searches for her shoot name? Bc that’s not really a good comparison considering Rhea Ripley has had 1 name her whole career whereas Sasha was a bigger star under a different name, so that could split the search totals up
 

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In fairness to Ms 1 Milly, is that chart only counting searches for her shoot name? Bc that’s not really a good comparison considering Rhea Ripley has had 1 name her whole career whereas Sasha was a bigger star under a different name, so that could split the search totals up

you right. But I searched for Sasha banks and the trend was even lower, so I went with the most recent name haha
 
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