Earlier this month Jade Cargill made her big return to WWE programming when she attacked Naomi at the Elimination Chamber premium live event. Shortly after it was reported that Cargill had been involved in a confrontation with Shayna Baszler last year.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that there had been problems in the ring during the Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair vs. Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark matches. However, it was noted that it wouldn’t be an issue as botched spots happen, and the other talent knew that Jade Cargill was inexperienced with back and forth matches.
The backstage heat came from claims from other women that Cargill would blame the other women when there were problems in the ring, and she was disrespectful.
There was reportedly a specific confrontation where Jade Cargill pointed to a bruise on her arm and told Shayna Baszler she needed to learn how to work. Baszler allegedly responded by saying if she was shooting they would both know.
Shayna Baszler then later confronted Jade Cargill when she blamed others for problems in matches. It’s being said that this wasn’t a one person deal, but Baszler went to talk to her about it. That didn’t make the situation better because Cargill got in her face, and Baszler didn’t back down. Other talent and management diffused the situation and got them away from each other. After that nothing else of significance happened.
There was also a lack of understanding as Jade Cargill asked for the holiday tour off as she didn’t know that was considered to be the major tour of the year. She then got injured, and the timing of the injury led to stories claiming that the injury wasn’t real.
People internally noted that the injury was real from the start, but there were people who doubted it.