Bianca Belair’s newest run is a peculiar one. The three-time girls’s world champion was chosen No. 1 total within the 2024 WWE Draft. Her reserving over the next 10 months doesn’t scream main lady, regardless of two reigns as WWE girls’s tag group champion. That might frustrate some superstars in a enterprise rife with huge personalities. For Belair, nonetheless, taking a break from the world title scene was transformative.
“I’ve discovered that you must take the ego out of issues when it involves WWE,” Belair instructed CBS Sports activities forward of the Elimination Chamber on Saturday. “I discovered it is vital that the division must evolve. It is the entire level of this.
“I do know ultimately I’ll return to the singles image, however I really feel like it was a pleasant break for me. It does not all the time need to be about you so that you can be happy with it. And I am very happy with the work that I’ve put in, the work that I’ve finished on this tag group division.”
Belair can reinsert herself into the singles title image in brief order. “The EST of WWE” is considered one of six superstars competing in Saturday’s girls’s Elimination Chamber match. At stake is a chance to problem girls’s world champion Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 41.
Such alternatives usually are not overseas to Belair. She received the 2021 Royal Rumble in her rookie yr, final eliminating Ripley en path to headlining night time considered one of WrestleMania 37 with Sasha Banks — the primary time two Black superstars headlined WrestleMania. Most superstars work their means up the ladder. Belair was thrown into the deep finish from the beginning.
“I received the Royal Rumble and fundamental evented WrestleMania my very first yr. However I used to be used to being led,” Belair mentioned. “My very first WrestleMania, I am within the ring with a vet like Sasha Banks. Then I am in the ring with somebody like Becky Lynch, Bayley and Asuka. I wished to take in and soak up as a lot as I may from them.
“I keep in mind after I grew to become Uncooked girls’s champion, all of a sudden I believed, ‘Oh! I am not within the ring with them anymore. I need to lead.’ I acquired somewhat bit uncomfortable as a result of I used to be so used to feeling protected. I felt so protected with them within the ring. Not within the sense of bodily, I knew we would have a terrific match. I’ve nice chemistry with them they usually’re main me. We’re good. So the one half I might say I used to be uncomfortable with was now being on this new position the place I am checked out because the vet, however I nonetheless felt like I used to be studying.”
Try the total interview with Bianca Belair beneath.
Belair has loved shedding the stress of being girls’s world champion. She will once more study from a extra skilled skilled wrestler, her tag group companion Naomi. The Triple Crown champion additionally sees the fruits of her labor constructing the comparatively new girls’s tag group division as an alternative of dwelling as much as the WWE girls’s title’s legacy.
However she should not get snug for too lengthy. Many contemplate Belair a favourite heading into the Elimination Chamber. Her first fundamental roster singles match towards Ripley is lengthy overdue, and Belair is fast to remind others that she’s undefeated at WrestleMania.
