4 Reasons why Sasha Banks and Bayley won the WWE Women's Tag-Team Championships at WWE Elimination Chamber 2019

WWE Elimination Chamber began with history being made as 12 WWE Superstars competed to win the first ever WWE Women's tag-team championship. The match went down to the wire with Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose and the team of Sasha and Bayley were the last women standing.

For a few seconds, it looked like Deville and Rose would pull off the upset. Rose hit Banks with her finisher but The Boss kicked out at the last second. Sasha then sidestepped a Spear from Deville who took out her own teammate by mistake.

The Boss used her experience to her advantage and quickly locking in a modified version of the Banks Statement, getting Deville to tap out and win the titles for her team,

In this article we look at why WWE went with Sasha Banks and Bayley as the first WWE Women's Tag-Team Champions:

#4 Out of the title picture for too long

Both Sasha Banks and Bayley have been out of the singles titles picture for most of 2018. This changed for Banks when she challenged Ronda Rousey for the RAW Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble (more on that later), that seemed more like a one-off for now than the norm.

Sasha Banks is a former 4-time RAW Women's Champion and Bayley is a former holder of the title two.

Banks and Bayley are top tier talent and the only reason they haven't been given a spotlight as singles stars in the last year is because of how deep WWE's women's division is right now, and heading into WrestleMania 35, the RAW women's division is even more crowded than usual. Instead, Sasha and Bayley get to spearhead the women's tag division.