The inceptive variation of the team began and ended as atag team consisting of Naomi and Tamina, but for most of its time was a trio also including Banks, who joined in July 2015 as part of theDivas Revolutionstoryline and left the team in February 2016. Both Naomi and Tamina are members of theAnoaʻi professional wrestling family.
In May 2015, Naomi aligned herself with her real life cousin-in-law Tamina Snuka, after having been outnumbered byThe Bella Twins (Brie andNikki Bella) on multiple occasions.[1] Tamina and Naomi went on to defeat The Bella Twins in a tag team match atPayback.[2]
AtBattleground, a triple threat match took place with Sasha Banks representing Team B.A.D. against Charlotte of Team Paige (later known as Team PCB), and Brie Bella for Team Bella in a losing effort while Charlotte picked up the victory.[4] The following night on the July 20 episode ofRaw, Naomi and Sasha Banks were victorious in atag team match against Paige and Becky Lynch.[5] Banks went on to defeat Paige again on the July 27 episode of Raw in a singles match. The three teams would ultimately face off atSummerSlam in athree team elimination match, where Team B.A.D. were the first team to be eliminated courtesy of Team Bella when Tamina waspinned by Brie, and Team PCB would win the match.[6]
After defeating then-WWE Divas Champion Nikki Bella by submission in a non-title match on the August 17 episode ofRaw,[7] Banks participated in the first ever Divas number one contender'sBeat the Clock challenge, in which she fought Paige to atime limit draw and Charlotte was named the number one contender.[8] AtNXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, Banks lost the NXT Women's Championship to Bayley, ending her reign at 192 days. The match won Match of the Year at theNXT Year-End Awards. Following this, Banks began a shortfeud with Paige and defeated her twice on the September 7 and 14 episodes ofRaw,[9][10] and fought to ano contest on the September 10 episode ofSmackDown.[11] Banks wrestled her final match in NXT atNXT TakeOver: Respect, losing to Bayley in WWE's first-ever women's 30-minuteIron Man match, with a score of two falls to three.
Although she lost in afatal four-way number one contender's match for Charlotte's Divas Championship in November,[12] Banks was not pinned and started a winning streak, defeating the likes of Brie Bella[13] Alicia Fox,[14] and Becky Lynch,[15][16] whom she again defeated after distractions by Naomi and Tamina on theTLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs kickoff show on December 13.[17]
Banks returned at theRoyal Rumblepay-per-view on January 24, 2016, after about a month off television,[18] attacking Charlotte and Becky Lynch after their Divas Championship match, showing her intentions to challenge for the championship.[19] Prior to a match with Lynch on the February 1 episode ofRaw, Banks claimed that she was "on her own", signaling that she had moved on from the group, at which Naomi and Tamina declared that there were no hard feelings; however, during Sasha's match with Lynch, the duo attacked Banks until she was saved by Lynch, turning Banks into aface in the process.[20] The feud between Banks, Naomi and Tamina would continue throughout February,[21][22][23][24] and would lead to a tag team match atFastlane on February 21, where Naomi and Tamina lost.[25]
Team B.A.D. & Blonde members, walking to the ring before their match at theWrestleMania 32 event in April 2016
After their feud with Banks, Team B.A.D. formed a brief alliance withLana,Emma andSummer Rae, and on the March 14 episode ofRaw, they defeated Alicia Fox and Brie Bella after a distraction by Lana. Team B.A.D. allied with her later in a segment backstage after confronting Paige,[26] and later allied with Emma and Rae the week after onMain Event.[27] The following week onRaw, they accompanied Emma to her match against Paige, where Emma won, after which they attacked Paige's allies (Alicia Fox, Brie Bella andNatalya) before they were saved by a returningEva Marie.[28] As a result, a10-Diva tag team match between the two newly dubbed alliances, "TeamTotal Divas" and "Team B.A.D. & Blonde", was announced for theWrestleMania 32's pay-per-view pre-show.[29] At the event on April 3, they were defeated by Team Total Divas after Naomisubmitted to Brie Bella.[30][31] After appearing sporadically since WrestleMania, Team B.A.D. disbanded in early May, when Tamina underwent knee surgery in order to repair torn ligaments, and Naomi began filmingThe Marine 5: Battleground, and was injured with a torn ankle tendon.[32][33] Both Naomi and Tamina would be drafted toSmackDown (Naomi during2016 WWE draft, and Tamina during the2017 WWE Superstar Shake-up).
On the February 25, 2022, edition ofSmackDown, Naomi announced that her and Sasha Banks were going to challenge for theWWE Women's Tag Team Championship, thus reuniting the team as a duo.[34] On the following episode ofRaw, reigning championsCarmella andQueen Zelina would accept their challenge, consequently setting up the bout forWrestleMania 38.[35][36] Over the following weeks, the respective teams ofRhea Ripley andLiv Morgan, and Natalya andShayna Baszler, would be added to the bout, thereby making it afatal four-waytag team match.[37] At the event, Banks and Naomi were successful in their pursuit, as Banks put an end to her streak of WrestleMania losing efforts and entered her record-tying third reign with the title.[38][39]During the May 16 episode ofRaw, Banks and Naomi reportedly walked out after a meeting withVince McMahon due to a creative dispute.[40] WWE released an official statement, in which the company stated Banks and Naomi "walked into WWE Head of Talent RelationsJohn Laurinaitis' office with their suitcases in hand, placed their tag team championship belts on his desk and walked out".[41] The two were originally booked for the show's main event, which had to be reworked.[40] On the following episode ofSmackDown, it was announced that Banks and Naomi had been suspended indefinitely, therefore the titles werevacated.[42] Banks subsequently left WWE in the summer and would later debut atWrestle Kingdom 17 under the name Mercedes Moné. Naomi confirmed she was no longer with WWE in March 2023 until she would return to the company in January 2024.
Only championships and accomplishments that were achieved while as a tag team are listed. For example, although Sasha Banks is a three-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion, only one of those reigns occurred while officially being in a tag team with Naomi.
