Bayley looks back at the change in her character.
WWE is two months out from the 2025 Royal Rumble Premium Live Event at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Talents are making the media rounds to promote the forthcoming event and one of the names doing so is Bayley. She appeared on 8 News Now and spoke about the heel run that she was on for the last couple of years. Bayley shared that she feels she lost a genuine connection with the fans.
She added that sometimes she thinks about where she would be if she didn’t make the change. Bayley said what she was doing prior to that was not going to extend her career.
I don’t know. Sometimes I think about where I would be with the fans because when I became a bad guy, I felt like I lost a genuine connection with fans where it was like, oh, they don’t know how they feel about me or whether they still wanna like me or what it was. It was a genuine disconnection. So sometimes I still think about, man, I wonder if I never would’ve done that, where I would be? Or if I’d be better or if I’d be off worse but then, I think about times like during the pandemic, I don’t know if that character would have been able to last through the pandemic and have the type of success that I did then, you know? So, I always credit them allowing me to have that moment and them allowing me to explore my world. Because I didn’t feel that what I was doing at the time was gonna extend my career any longer so I knew I needed to turn that page and just make something different happen. As a fan, I wanted to do everything. I wanna be the bad guy, I wanna be the good guy, I wanna get married on WWE. I wanna have all the crazy storylines so, that was the first taste of doing something different for myself. I cater to a lot of fans coming in, but that was something I felt I needed for my career so, I don’t regret that at all.
In a separate interview, she chatted with FOX 2 Detroit and commented on the newly introduced WWE Women’s United States Championship.
I don’t know if everybody has seen it but we have a new U.S. Women’s Championship that just got introduced last week so that just means more opportunity for the women and it’s a really exciting time.
As of this writing, it was first reported by WrestleVotes that kicking off the 11/15 SmackDown will be a Women’s U.S. Title tournament match. It’ll be Bayley versus B-Fab versus Candice LeRae.
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