ESPN Confirms Finalists for Best WWE Moment ESPY Award

The 2021 ESPY Awards will take place this Saturday and will feature the return of the Best WWE Moment Award. The 16 nominations were announced back in mid-June as part of an online voting bracket, and this week the final four nominations were confirmed. They include Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks being the first black women to compete in a WrestleMania main event at WrestleMania 37, Belair's 2021 Women's Royal Rumble win, Edge's 2021 Men's Royal Rumble win from the No. 1 spot and Bad Bunny & Damian Priest's victory at WrestleMania. You can cast your vote ahead of Saturday's ceremony here.

Other moments from the past year that were nominated included Roman Reigns aligning with Paul Heyman, Banks and Bayley's Hell in a Cell match and The Undertaker's Final Farewell at Survivor Series. Reigns won the award during its first appearance back in 2019 to celebrate his return from battling leukemia.

Banks, who has not appeared on WWE programming since losing to Belair, talked about the importance of her match with "The EST" while on the Just Women's Sports Podcast back in June.

"It was, that whole month was such an exciting thing for me," Banks said. "We had no idea who was going to main event WrestleMania. The year before I was telling my best friend, Bayley, like 'I'm going to main event WrestleMania 37.' It was always my dream to main event a WrestleMania. So I was just putting it out there in the universe and really just striving and working towards it. So the month before WrestleMania, I really thought, I heard rumblings that it was going to be the guys. And I was like 'okay, what can I do? What can I do? What can I do? All I can do is be me and just keep doing my work as best I can and show Vince that if I'm not the main event, I don't know what main event you're going to have.'

"It was legit the Wednesday before WrestleMania I found out that we were the main event," she continued. "And I was again so nervous because I was asking around 'did you get the card? Did anyone tell you?' And they're like 'you're not the main event.' And I'm like 'nobody told me that!' I'm like 'okay, I still have time because Vince hasn't said anything. I'm going to go to rehearsals and if I find out, all I can do is maybe ask Vince and that's all I can do.' I went to rehearsals and TJ Wilson, who's our producer, he told me that I was the main event. And I just instantly started crying and was just like 'wow. No way!' Like I knew it, it's something that I wanted. Just to finally to hear the words that 'you're the main event.' It was so overwhelming, it's bringing back tears. It's crazy, it's crazy, because it's the biggest thing you can ever do in wrestling. My heroes haven't gotten to do what I've done. So not only that, and just being a woman and being an African American woman. We're checking off so many things. But the biggest thing that I got to check off was my biggest dream in my heart. Fully accomplishing that last checkmark on my list of everything I had written down since I was a kid. That was just last month and I am on vacation right now still soaking that in. I'm just ready for what's next."