WWE SummerSlam 2017: 5 Reasons Sasha Banks Winning Was Correct

2. Alexa Bliss’s Reign Was Starting to Get Old

When she won the Raw Women’s Championship off of Bayley at Payback, Alexa Bliss injected excitement into the division with her captivating character work and enviable ability to work a live crowd. Not since Banks’s heel run in NXT has a female superstar destroyed crowds with verbal insults so easily, and Bliss carried the division for the first couple of months.

The problem is that heel champions always need to get their comeuppance, and that simply wasn’t happening with Bliss. She would berate the other superstars and defeat them in the ring. Bliss effectively buried Bayley at Extreme Rules, and she would weasel her way out of title defenses against Jax and Banks thereafter.

By losing to Banks, Bliss avoids becoming stale with the fans as a champion, and she finally receives her comeuppance by losing to someone who is portrayed as a superior competitor (as in, a wrestler who does not need to cheat to win). Now, Bliss can move on to a different program, perhaps something with old foe Mickie James or even a rivalry with current friend Nia Jax. They can also continue a feud between Banks and Bliss, since both showed good chemistry in the ring back at Great Balls of Fire (their match at SummerSlam was merely decent).