So. Rewatched the match cause duh. There's a moment where Sasha just stops and stands in the corner and looks just fucking devastated. She takes a second to mourn the friendship in the middle of a blood bath. And then at the end after she's won, she stares at Bayley broken on the mat and ignores the championship entirely. And its not a haha fuck you I won kind of look. Its a why did you make me do this kind of look. Sasha spent months eyeing that belt and in the end, she stops to mourn Bayley and the connection between them, proving her case that she really had cared the whole time. Then she stands over the ashes of that bond with the belt in hand because she's still the Boss.
On the flip side, Bayley spends the entire match trying to find new and creative ways to decapitate Sasha. Her transformation from lovable underdog to delusional paranoid sociopath has been ridiculously compelling but this match just shows all the ways she's lost touch with her humanity. The heel turn began with her trading her soul for Sasha. Yes she felt overshadowed, yes she felt overlooked, but her loyalty to Sasha was the linchpin. And once she decided she only cared about the championship and Sasha, everything else became null and void. Until her own paranoia convinced her that she needed to choose one over the other. Sasha chose Bayley over and over. Bayley chose the gold. And now she's left without either one.
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