Shayna Baszler: We Want To Defend The Titles Every Week, And We Want More Than Four Weeks Of Work

Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler are ready to legitimize the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship scene. 

Ronda Rousey is one of the most legitimized names in women’s combat sports. Although Shayna Baszler took a path differing from Rousey’s to WWE, she takes pride in adding legitimacy to everything she does. Currently, Baszler and Ronda Rousey are the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, but it is not lost on them that the division needs new life breathed into it. 

Baszler and Rousey look to establish their dominance further when they unify the WWE and NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship in a match with Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre on June 23.

Appearing on Busted Open Radio, Baszler spoke about her history with the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship and acknowledged that Dawn & Fyre are a great team. Still, the pressure falls on her and Ronda to make something of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships, and it’s a pressure they welcome having on their shoulders.

“The pressure is on me and Ronda. 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,” Baszler said. “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.”

Learn more about the upcoming unification match on June 23 here. 

Ronda Rousey actually pushed for this tag team run she is currently having alongside Shayna Baszler. Learn more about that at this link.

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