On the most recent episode of WWE legend, Stone Cold Steve Austin’s: Unleashed podcast, Austin spoke on why he believes that the SmackDown Live Women’s Championship deserves better as well as its current holder, Naomi.
Here’s what Austin had to say regarding the topic:
“I don’t know how this match came to be; I’ll fight you, hey you want a shot at me I’ll fight you, no title on the line because you didn’t do anything to deserve it. But since I’m a fighting champion, I’ll fight you but you don’t deserve a shot at the title so that is not on the line.’”
“So then it’s back onto Lana, ‘okay yeah I’ll accept that because I wanna go in there with the best of the best because you have the belt and so let’s tangle.’ But the title is not on the line, so with putting words into Naomi’s mouth with ‘hey I’m a fighting champion’ to give reason for this match to happen and there by some logic; Naomi deserves better, the title deserves better. Lana wasn’t up for this task at hand at this point in her career. I thought [Lana] had much more mystique as the valet, whatever the term is, with Rusev. They kinda killed her gimmick off and reinvented her and I just liked her the way she was, so if she wants to be in the ring that’s more power to her.”
