Posted on 4/22/125 by Colin Vassallo
Bayley appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet to talk
about a variety of subjects, including her current WWE deal.
Bayley revealed that she has a year and a half left on her
current WWE contract and is unsure what will happen after
that.
“I think I’ve done everything I really want to do, not
everything,” she said. “There’s still a lot I want to get
done, but done so much with WWE and I’ve been here for
already 12 years.”
Bayley was left off the WrestleMania card after she was
supposed to team up with Lyra Valkyria, only to be replaced
by Becky Lynch.
She said that there’s a huge wave of women coming who are
ready to take over the spots people like her are in right
now.
Other highlights below.
On the Bayley Buddies:
“I think that was supposed to be Adam Rose’s. I don’t know
what exactly happened or why it didn’t work for him, maybe
he didn’t want it. But I literally showed up at TV that day
and they’re like hey, we want to go through your entrance
real quick. I was like, okay. At that point I was like, they
never do that to me, I’m just freaking loser, I just walk
out and I wave to people. I already had the character, but I
think that I was maybe a month into the character.
Then they surprised me with it, came out and they popped up.
This is awesome! Everybody watching, talent and stuff were
like, Dude, that looks so cool and, yeah, it became a thing.
I think it was supposed to be for Adam Rose though, because
he had a whole, crazy character stuff. But I was so happy
even having that. I remember sometimes at entrances for big
matches, whenever they would pop up it would get a second
pop. I would get a good reaction, but then the tube men got
a big pop. It was like oh sh*t, they’re here.”
On whether the Bayley Buddies will return:
“I cut them up and then they sold them. They sold the cut
ones. They sliced them into pieces, and then they sold them.
I think it’s like a picture of me slicing them, or something
like that. I don’t know.”
On her pandemic injury:
“This will be a story for another day, because I’m not ready
to share it yet, but my injury ended up being more than what
everybody knows. It was a bigger injury than anybody knows.
There’s a few people that are aware of it, and obviously the
office and stuff. But that’s the reason, wasn’t just an ACL
thing, it was a bigger injury, and that’s the reason why it
kept me out longer. It still bugs me to this day. I can’t do
certain things, it’s hard for me to run, it’s hard for me to
do leg curls. There’s a lot of things that I can’t do
because of that injury.
So there was a time, maybe in PT doing stuff where I was
like I can’t even walk, I can’t jump. How am I supposed to
wrestle in like three months or something? So there was that
little doubt which I’m sure everybody goes through with
injuries, but I always knew that I was going to come back.
Because, I mean, it wasn’t that crazy of an injury. It was
just like where am I going to fit in kind of thing. My whole
idea behind Damage CTRL was like alright, I’ve won my
championships. I’ve had my Mania moments. Now as a character
and as a bad guy, I could be like I don’t even want anything
for myself, I want it for them. They’re gonna reap all the
benefits of my experience, and they’re gonna get all the
championships, and they’re gonna get everything. Then when
the time is right, I’m gonna steal it right from them, I’m
gonna take the spotlight right back when I’m ready. But
while I’m still recovering and finding my ways, they’re
gonna do all the work for me. That was my idea behind it.”
On her original pitch for Damage CTRL:
“I had a whole [plan], there’s five of us, my pitch for
Damage CTRL. I also had Raquel [Rodriguez] in it. I also had
Alba Fyre in it. I had so many other girls in mind too. I
had Toni Storm. I wanted Toni Storm in it. But when I
actually sat at the PC and shot stuff, it was with Raquel
and Alba, and all five of us. I had reasons why I wanted
them. Raquel was obviously our muscle, but she was teaming
with Dakota at the time, I believe. So they worked out
perfectly. Alba and IYO I think were teaming a little bit
there, so they worked out perfectly. But in my mind, it was
there’s two tag teams and then IYO was my champion; she was
going to be the champion.
I just want to do everything in wrestling. That’s how I
always thought. I want to be a bad guy. I want to be a good
guy. I want to be in a faction. I want to be in a tag team.
I want to be a singles wrestler. I want to be in a romantic
love angle someday. I want to be able to do everything,
because there’s so many different things that we could do in
this crazy world to not try different avenues and work with
as many people as possible. I just want to do it all.”