Sasha Banks’ Latest WWE Raw Title Win Should Lead to Heel Turn

On this week’s Monday Night Raw we saw Sasha Banks win the Women’s Championship for the third time, we look at why it should be the impetus for a heel turn.

Sometimes it seems like Sasha Banks and Charlotte are the only two women on Monday Night Raw. They have traded the Raw Women’s Championship between themselves, with both women holding three title reigns. They are in fact the only women to hold the title, since it was re-branded at WrestleMania back in April. This may be a feud that may very well go on for a little while yet, but it has to lead to a heel turn for Sasha Banks.

Having spent her entire tenure on Raw looking for, and receiving, the cheers of the crowd, Sasha is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. She’ll never hit the heights of fan adulation that Bayley does, very few people could ever hope to do that.

Charlotte is currently the number one heel in the Raw Women’s Division. Sasha is high in the baby face stakes, second in line to Bayley. Back in NXT Sasha used her “The Boss” moniker to become the top dog in the women’s division and that is exactly what she should do now, with exactly the same opponent at the top of the division against her.

Charlotte Flair vs Sasha Banks cannot go on forever, we may end up with Charlotte getting her rematch at RoadBlock in a few weeks time. If that match does happen, it needs to be the final match in the feud, for the time being anyway. The match at RoadBlock should be used to properly turn Sasha heel and potentially turn Charlotte towards the face side of things.

We saw on Raw how Sasha was defensive of Charlotte’s father Ric Flair, saying how if she won the title she would dedicate the win to the Nature Boy. After winning the title Ric came out to raise the hand of Sasha in his North Carolina stomping ground, and give her a massive endorsement in the center of the ring. Charlotte should, by all rights, should be furious at that move.

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In the build up to RoadBlock, Charlotte should be doing everything she can to reconcile with her father. Ric can accept the apology from his daughter and promise to be in her corner on the night. With everyone talking about how the father-daughter combo is back together, then comes the end of the match. When it looks like Ric will help Charlotte get the win, and get the title back, he turns on her and sides with Sasha.

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The Dirtiest Player in the Game is back and can help Sasha become the female version of the “Jet Flying, Limousine Riding, Wheeling Dealing” character that Flair made so famous. It doesn’t have to be a long-standing relationship, just long enough to give Sasha the rub and have her pushed to the next rung on the heel ladder.

With Charlotte out of the picture, you can have Bayley pushed into the opponent slot opposite the champion. The massively over Bayley, vs the massive heel champion Sasha. The match that made both mega stars in their NXT days. The match that saw women main event a WWE event for the first time back at TakeOver: Respect, could be the perfect feud to push the Raw Women’s Division onto the same level as the main men’s titles.

Sasha is one of the best female performers in the entire WWE. She can be the standard bearer in WWE. “The Boss” character is screaming out for her to be a cocky and brash champion who looks and acts like the mega star that she thinks she is. Sasha may get the cheers right now, but in only a few short weeks she could be the woman that draws the ire of the crowd. The woman that runs down Bayley at every occasion and stops the crowd favorite in her tracks.

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Raw Women’s Champion Sasha Banks, with Bayley as the woman chasing her title, could be a masterstroke for WWE. Even a one on one match worthy of main eventing a WWE ppv. It may have been done already inside the Hell in a Cell cage, but Sasha vs Bayley truly could be a mega money match in the waiting for WWE. Book it Vince.