During a recent interview with Female First, WWE women’s wrestler Bayley discussed WWE NXT’s upcoming tour of the UK, which WWE Superstars she wants to work with and more. Here are some highlights:
On the highlight of her NXT Women’s Championship run: “The matches were incredible. The Ironman match with Sasha and everything was really cool, but I think just the fact I was able to carry the title and visit places for the first time being champion, like going to the UK for example, being champion. Not only with NXT but I also got to travel with WWE and, to be the NXT Women’s Champion and be on the WWE shows representing the company and the division in such a huge way was really cool for me. Going to places like Chicago and New York as the champion is what was really special for me. It was just being able to be the champion of such a great division and going to these places for the first time ever – it’s a huge honour.”
On whether the NXT women paved the way for WWE dropping the term ‘Diva’: “I think maybe NXT had a huge part in it. I know a lot of the girls in the WWE always wanted to go down that path, but it wasn’t really until Stephanie McMahon introduced Becky, Sasha and Charlotte that people started noticing the movement and noticing that these girls want to be not just Divas, they want to take the division to a different level. I don’t think the fans really knew how bad everybody else wanted it backstage like Paige and the Bellas, and Nattie especially. They all wanted that for so long so for us to be able to kinda help and for Sasha, Becky and Charlotte to be the ones to kind of push it and for Stephanie to introduce them in such a big way. It’s been such a good year and it’s really cool to see that NXT kinda had a little help to do with that!”
On which WWE talents would she like to work with: “Nattie is one of them. I’ve had plenty of matches with her but I’ve only been able to team with her, I’ve never been able to have a match one-on-one against her. That’s one of the matches I’ve always wanted and she’s kind of been saying the same thing for a while since she was in NXT for a little bit. I remember watching one of her matches from the independents when she was like, an ECCW Canadian SuperGirls Champion against Ivory. One day I wanna have at least one match against her. Nikki Bella as well, when she comes back from her surgery and everything. She’s the longest reigning Divas Champion, so I feel like she’s someone I can learn from. I know we would have a lot of fun in a match together.”
On wrestling at Download Festival: “I think that’s what I’m most excited for and it’s really cool that we’re going to be able to start it out like that because, we’ve done festivals here in the US but this is the first time NXT is going to the UK to do something like this. I can only imagine a mixture of music and wrestling and how insane the fans are gonna be. They’ve been really successful, the ones that we’ve done here in the US, so I’m just so excited to get over there and be able to experience something that is just gonna be 10 times bigger and better, I feel.”
