A couple of years ago, Sasha Banks said on a podcast appearance that she rarely talks to Vince because she was intimidated by him. A few years later, that relationship has changed in a big way.
Sasha was recently interviewed by Al Arabiya English’s William Mullally. Here is what she said in the interview about her relationship with Vince:
“It is [different]. It comes with growing up, becoming more mature and becoming a woman. You have this more comfortable feeling of, ‘ok, you work for the boss, you work for the man, a legend, Vince McMahon, but hey, you’re the Legit Boss, so you better go through that door, tell him what you’d like to do and what you’d like to have.
Honestly, that’s the biggest thing—not being afraid to stand up for yourself. If you’re very passionate about something, he’s the man to talk to. I’ve learned that it’s actually very easy to talk to him, and it’s so much better for me to talk to him than to talk to writers, because you get the right answer, and you get the answer right away. You kind of understand what he wants from you as a performer. It’s been so much easier talking to him, and I feel less intimidated,”
She also says that going to him directly has made things easier:
“A lot of times, when it comes to whether we’re handed a promo that I’m not really feeling, or trying to figure out what the story—if we don’t know what we’re doing, it’s hard to perform. Recently we asked him, ‘hey, where are we going with this storyline? Can you tell me what direction you’d like to see me go?’ Getting the answer right from him straight up makes it so much easier.”
Speaking of Sasha, she has a chance to make history at Wrestlemania 34. Check that out here.
Also, here are some more backstage stories from wrestlers meeting Vince McMahon for the first time.
