Saraya has praise for Sasha Banks (real name Mercedes Varnado) as Banks is about to enter the next chapter of her career following the decision to walk out of WWE last May alongside Naomi due to a creative dispute.
Neither woman has returned to the company, though Banks will reportedly be appearing at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 in some capacity. She became a free agent on Sunday.
While speaking to Alistair McGeorge of Metro, Saraya put over Banks for knowing her worth and going out to get the money she wants.
“I love the fact that she took her career into her own hands, and she knows her worth and she knows she wants to be treated a certain way, and she deserves to be treated that way because she’s done a lot for the wrestling business. She’s one of the girls that puts butts in seats, and you want to see wrestle and you wanna see main event. She deserves all those things. Wherever she ends up, I’m gonna be happy for her, and anyone that gets her is gonna be very, very lucky. I just selfishly hope that I get to wrestle her one day. I don’t know if she’d want to because she’d probably be scared to wrestle me again.”
As previously reported, Banks wanted the same kind of money as Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair, but WWE wasn’t willing to give that to her.
Saraya is set to team with a mystery partner against Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter on the January 11 episode of AEW Dynamite. There has been speculation that Banks could be the one to be revealed as the mystery partner, but it has yet to be confirmed.
