Shayna Baszler wants to be a fighting champion.
Baszler and Ronda Rousey won the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship on the May 29 episode of WWE RAW. They have since picked up an impressive win against former NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Katana Chance and Kayden Carter. Baszler and Rousey will battle NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre in a title unification match on the June 23 episode of WWE SmackDown.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Baszler shared her thoughts ahead of the match and stated that she and Rousey want to defend the titles every week. (H/t Jeremy Lambert of Fightful for the transcription)
“The pressure is on me and Ronda,” Baszler said. “If you were to take a poll, no one thinks anyone can beat me and Ronda. We have everything to prove, they have nothing to lose. On top of that, the meaning of those titles, if people don’t remember, I had [the WWE Women’s Title] before, and we were wrecking shop across all three brands during the COVID era, even though nobody remembers that. For whatever reason, they’re like, ‘Oh man, Bayley was the workhorse. She worked on all three…’ we did it too. All three brands. Went to NXT, beat the snot out of them so bad they were like, ‘we want tag titles too,’ and made their own. The titles live and die with me,.
“They are only there because we decided to make NXT viable with a tag team and division, and now full circle, me and Ronda set out from day one, talking about this journey, we want to defend these every week, all the time. Let’s get some tag teams going and get a real division. We want to do this every week, and we want more than four weeks of work. That’s why Ronda said in that promo, we were going to wreck shop too much so we had to look towards NXT. There is no taking away that they are a great tag team, obviously. They work well together, they are the champions, but me and Ronda have been a team since 2013.”
Baszler previously described how she and Rousey fought for their tag team title win. Check out her comments here.
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