Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey are two established WWE veterans.
With their star power and veteran experience, the two are on a mission.
A mission to help bring more women talent up to the big time.
Ahead of their WWE and NXT Women’s Tag-Team Championship unification, “The Queen of Spades” spoke on WWE’s The Bump about how she and “Rowdy” Ronda are out to try and help bring more women to the scene in WWE.
“I want the same thing she [Ronda] wants. We want to put more women on the scene,” she said, before talking about the difference between the titles she and Rousey hold and those that NXT Women’s Tag-Team Champions Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn hold. “There’s are important. They’re titles, we’re champions.”
Baszler continued, “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.”
Check out the complete interview via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
