WWE Booked Jade Cargill, Bianca Belair & Naomi As Bad Blood Hosts Due To Black Representation Criticism

WWE have come under fire in recent weeks over the company's booking of black male talent, with it emerging that a male black wrestler hasn't won a singles match on a main roster WWE pay-per-view since Bobby Lashley at Elimination Chamber 2023. Bad Blood was also the third straight WWE premium live event/pay-per-view without a black male talent featured in a match.

The criticism did lead to a Bad Blood change, though, with Dave Meltzer reporting in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE booked Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, and Naomi as hosts of the PLE due to the show being in Atlanta and no black wrestlers being booked to wrestle on the show.

Belair, Cargill, and Naomi were shown throughout Bad Blood, primarily in a corporate box inside State Farm Arena with various WWE Hall of Famers.

Triple H was asked about black representation in WWE in the post-Bad Blood press conference, with the WWE Chief Content Officer replying that he doesn't see colour.

Triple H said: “I see everybody gets the opportunity. I don’t see the difference in anybody. I don’t see the color, I don’t see the nationality or any of that. I just see talent. I don’t see the difference between men and women, I see talent. We tell stories with those talent, how they can handle those stories and how they can represent those stories, and how we can bring those stories forward. I don’t keep track of any of that. I do what’s relevant and what is best in the storytelling and what’s being delivered the best and that’s what goes. No different than the men and women who main events whatever, whatever the biggest stories are, that’s where we go.”