Vince Mcmahon Pushed Sasha Banks-Bianca Belair Triple Threat for WrestleMania 37
Reginald says vince mcmahon wanted to turn Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair’s WrestleMania 37 match into a triple threat with him. The former WWE wrestler said the idea surfaced around a bout that made Banks and Belair the first Black women to headline WrestleMania in 2021.
Reginald’s office meeting
“Just one that’s ridiculous off the bat, I almost main evented WrestleMania. It was an intergender match… If I would have been in this match, I would have got so much heat from everyone because this match had such — like, this was a huge match. This was a first… Vince wanted a triple threat between Sasha, Bianca, and myself,” Reginald said while describing the pitch. He added that McMahon told him, Sasha Banks, and Bianca Belair, “This is what I’m thinking, Reggie, you buy her a dog, she loves you, and you’re playing every week in the middle, but the thing is you have an endgame. You will come out and announce that this is no longer a singles. This is a triple threat.”
Reginald said McMahon also told him, “Because Sasha and Reginald, you guys have great chemistry.” Banks pushed back in the room, asking, “What do you mean? What is this chemistry?” Reginald said the reaction in the meeting left him thinking, “I don’t know what the hell is happening right now. I’m not going to look at anyone, I’m not going to say anything.”
WrestleMania 37 fallout
That pitch would have changed the match that Banks and Belair ultimately wrestled at WrestleMania 37 in 2021. Reginald said the timing made the idea harder to imagine because he had already worked a singles match against Banks earlier in the year and had been part of a storyline with Banks, Belair, and Carmella around the event.
Reginald said the proposed change never got past the conversation. He later called it “stupid” to put him in that match, after laying out how big the spot already was for Banks and Belair.
COVID on the day
Reginald said he then got COVID the day of WrestleMania and could not appear as planned alongside Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler for their WWE Women’s Tag Team title defense against Natalya and Tamina. “I was supposed to debut in front of a live crowd that WrestleMania with Nia & Shayna, but I got COVID the day of,” he said.
He said he drove to Tampa, tested, got bad news, and had to drive back home. For WWE, that left one more wrinkle in a week already built around a main event that carried historical weight and a creative idea that could have pulled it in a different direction.
