WWE: Celebrating African-American Wrestlers Who Impacted Us

Sasha Banks

Candice Tinnon– I love Sasha Banks! I really do! She’s done so much for wrestling as a whole and she’s just getting started. She’s helped to elevate women’s wrestling, and she’s been excellent in representing Black wrestlers worldwide regardless of wrestling promotion.

You can’t deny her talent even if she was booked in a way that didn’t properly showcase her talent. Sure, it took her a while to find her style. When she did though, it shook the game up! Being apart of one of greatest group of ground breakers in WWE’s modern era, The Four Horsewomen, hasn’t hurt either.

I really started watching WWE NXT right around the time Bayley challenged Sasha Banks for the NXT Women’s Championship at TakeOver: Brooklyn. Banks lost that match, but she still won! I – and viewers all around the world – had the privilege of watching one of the best, if not the best, women’s match in the history of WWE. I got chills just minutes into that match because I just knew I was watching history. I was watching greatness—Black excellence, if you will. I still get chills, and that match was years ago.

Sasha and Bayley killed the game again at NXT TakeOver: Respect in the first ever Women’s Ironman Match. Epic! She’s main evented Monday Night Raw and Hell In A Cell (with Charlotte Flair). She’s a four-time WWE Raw Women’s Champion (short reigns aside), and she’s one half of the inaugural WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions with her former rival Bayley – The Boss N Hug Connection.

And Sasha Banks is just getting started.