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Sasha Banks and Naomi are yet to publicly speak on their WWE walkout that occurred over a week ago.
While the company has spoken plenty since last Monday regarding Sasha Banks and Naomi, the former WWE Women's Tag Team Champions have gone silent on social media.
On a recent episode of Unlocking the Cage, WWE RAW commentator Jimmy Smith continued to address the ongoing controversy surrounding Banks and Naomi. Smith said that WWE wanted to get out ahead of The Boss and Glow Connection in order to control the narrative of their walkout from Monday Night RAW.
"The rumor I have heard is that in the days of social media, the performers themselves can spin their own narrative," Jimmy Smith said. "Nowadays, if the Ultimate Warrior got cut, and people know the story at SummerSlam that he ran to the back and was immediately fired by Vince McMahon because he made all his demands, but Ultimate Warrior would have picked up his phone and recorded something on Instagram and said ‘F’ Vince McMahon, whatever. The superstars themselves are able to get their own story out and get their own narrative out in the public in ways they couldn’t 20, 10, or 15 years ago." [H/T: WrestlingNews.Co]
Sasha Banks and Naomi have yet to speak publicly about their WWE walkout
While WWE hasn't confirmed to Jimmy Smith that this is what they're doing, he believes that Vince McMahon is getting ahead of the talent to control the narrative.
"So what it feels like the WWE is doing, and I don’t know, they haven’t discussed it with me, is they’re getting ahead of the ability of Sasha Banks and Naomi to put out their own narrative," Jimmy Smith continued. "If you don’t say why, they’ll say why. The WWE wants their perspective out there. They’re going to go out and say something, so WWE wanted to get ahead of it and did it first. That’s what it seems like to me." [H/T: WrestlingNews.Co]
While Banks and Naomi continue to remain quiet, you can expect an explosion on Twitter if one of them chooses to present their side of the story soon.
