Jade Cargill And Shayna Baszler Almost Had A Fight Backstage Last Year Over Tension Between Cargill And Women’s Locker Room
There appears to have been legitimate tension and backstage heat last year between Jade Cargill and the WWE Women’s Division, but Shayna Baszler in particularly.
According to a new report from Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there was a confrontation that took place a few months prior to Jade Cargill’s injury between her and Shayna Baszler. The report stated that a half dozen people had confirmed that last year Jade Cargill had rubbed people on the RAW Women’s Division the wrong way, and that it got to the point where Baszler was wanting to fight her. But, WWE management became aware of the situation and eventually calmed things down.
The reported timeframe for the ordeal was said to be when WWE was running the Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark vs. Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair program and matches. It wasn’t known exactly what had happened “other than it wasn’t just one thing.” It was added that the belief is that some of it stemmed from things that happened inside the ring during those series of matches, and that there was some stuff that happened outside the ring [backstage].
I was also noted that one Superstar on the Women’s roster said that they believed that the tension within the SmackDown roster was worse than it was backstage on RAW.
“There was a confrontation that took place a few months ago before the Cargill injury involving Cargill and Baszler.
It’s been confirmed by a half dozen people that it happened but nobody went into details past Cargill had rubbed enough people in the Raw women’s division the wrong way and Baszler was wanting to fight her until management found out and calmed the situation down.
The time frame was when they were doing Baszler & Stark vs. Belair & Cargill matches. I don’t know what in particular happened other than it wasn’t just one thing and the belief is that some of this stemmed from inside the ring in those matches and some didn’t.
Although one woman star said they believed the tension within the Smackdown side was worse than the Raw side.“
WWE wrote Jade Cargill off of TV back in November 2024 when she was attacked backstage by an unknown assailant. Cargill made her return on March 1st, 2025 at the Elimination Chamber PLE before the Women’s Chamber match started and attacked Naomi and took her out of the match.
We will keep you updated if we hear anything more about the backstage heat and altercation between Jade Cargill and Shayna Baszler, or any other information about tensions with Jade and the Women’s roster.
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