WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler lost to Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez at the WWE Money in the Bank premium live event from the o2 Arena in London, England.
The finish saw Shayna attack Rousey from behind then choke her out, leading to Morgan and Raquel winning the bout after they hit their finisher.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that Rousey has a hard-out on her deal. Meltzer noted that Rousey wants to give back to Shayna for getting her into the business but doesn’t know how many matches they will do.
“This was always the plan….The thing was that I was saying Ronda and Shayna were winning the tag team titles, and then Ronda got hurt. The thing is that I don’t know the date and it might be Summer Slam, it might be a little bit after. But the deal is Ronda has a hard-out, you know, I mean she gave a date, “This is my last date,” because I remember talking to somebody there and it’s like, well, you know, I know they’re gonna do this. And it’s like, I guess make the big match for WrestleMania. And it’s like, no, it’s like her hard-out is long. They didn’t give me the date, but it’s like, it’s long before WrestleMania. So the point is, is that whatever it is that they’re planning to do. They’ve always, the whole tag team was to set up Ronda and Shayna doing a feud. Ronda wanted to do this feed with Shayna. She got what she wanted. She’s always wanted to do it because Shayna’s the one who got her basically into pro wrestling. You know, Ronda was someone who watched it and sort of knew a little bit about it, but not, she wasn’t like a big pro wrestling fan.”
Meltzer added that WWE wanted to do little teases of a split, but because of Ronda’s broken arm earlier this year, they had to move things up.
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