Shayna Baszler Was Told She Would Be Winning 2020 WWE Women’s Money In The Bank Ladder Match

Baszler thought the company had lost faith in her.

Highlights from Shayna Baszler’s time in WWE were delved into when she appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet.

One of the notables was Baszler, revealing that she was told she would be winning the 2020 women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match to continue her program with then-Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch.

At the time, it was not publicly known that Lynch and Seth Rollins were expecting a child. When the women’s Money in the Bank field arrived at WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecitcut to film the match, it was relayed to them that Asuka would be winning. Baszler, unaware that the change of plans happened because of Lynch’s pregnancy, began to think WWE lost faith in her, and she beat herself up about it.

“Funny story about that by the way. I’ll tell this. Nobody knows this story, alright? You get the juice. So, COVID happens and they’re like, ‘Yeah, not in front of no audience. What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna shoot cinematic Money in the Bank –’ up the tower, right? Remember that one? And they’re like, ‘You’re gonna win that and then carry your feud on with Becky as the Money in the Bank winner.’ ‘Okay, great, cool. Whatever you need.’ We fly in, which was really weird because everything was shut down so it was like ghost town at the airport and everything. That was really weird but, we get there, and they’re reading us the general idea for Money in the Bank in Titan Tower… ‘And Asuka climbs and wins.’ But they had told me, ‘Oh, you’re gonna win Money in the Bank.’ So, my newly called-up NXT fresh meat is going, oh my God, they’ve lost faith in me, they hate me, they don’t want me to be in this, they’re taking me out of the thing. I don’t know, this is so bad. Crap, and so I’m just beating myself up, and then it was totally kayfabe to the locker room and everyone, Becky (Lynch) comes out and announces this whole thing about being pregnant, the winner of the Money in the Bank won the title and I was like, ‘You guys couldn’t have told me? Because I’ve been thinking this whole time that I’m the worst, and you guys hate me. But you couldn’t have been like, hey, it’s not you. We can’t tell you why. You’ll find out. You just were like, ‘And then you’re gonna win Money in the Bank.’ No, you’re gonna win — come on, guys. You have no idea I was beating myself up, like, ‘Oh crap, it’s the end of my career.’”

That women’s Money in the Bank field consisted of Baszler, Nia Jax, Dana Brooke (Ash by Elegance), Carmella, Lacey Evans, and Asuka.

Asuka won the match and went on to be crowned champion after Lynch relinquished the championship.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.