Shayna Baszler Snaps, Throws Away Women's Tag Team Championships
In a shocking turn of events, during the second match of Money in the Bank, Shayna Baszler inexplicably turned on her partner Ronda Rousey and abandoned her partner, ultimately leading to the loss of the Women's Tag Team Championships. Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez are now the new champions and Baszler will have some explaining to do as to why she turned on her best friend and simply walked away from being a champion. The development came as a total shock, simply because there was a ton of talk that Rousey had essentially demanded a run with her friend as the tag team champions so that she and Baszler could elevate the titles. Now, either Rousey and Baszler are set to work a singles program with Rousey essentially the babyface, or one of these two is potentially taking a break from WWE and the company needed a creative way to write one off the show.
The turn came after Baszler seemingly choked out one-half of her challengers and it looked like Rousey and Baszler had the match won. Rousey went to set up for her finisher on Morgan and Baszler leveled her from behind. She then choked out Rousey, walked out of the ring and Morgan was able to hit a finisher of her own and DDT The Baddest Woman on the Planet for the pin.
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Where Does Everyone Go From Here?
Morgan and Rodriguez will get another run as the tag team champions, their first run shortened by a Morgan injury. Rousey and Baszler's future is less clear. What does the company have in store for these two and will there be a program heading into SummerSlam?
Finally, what does this mean for an already depleted women's tag team division? These two were supposed to be the catalyst to finally build the division into something respectable. Now the most dangerous team is done.