Bayley Talks Being Bumped Off Of WrestleMania Card: “It Was Rough”

Bayley was deliberate to be in a match at WrestleMania 41 this yr, however plans had modified. She was set to workforce with Lyra Valkyria to face The Judgment Day for the WWE Ladies’s Tag Workforce Championships. As a newly fashioned workforce, they even defeated 5 different groups in a gauntlet match to get the Mania spot.

Inventive had different concepts and had Bayley “attacked” backstage and Becky Lynch changed her within the match at Mania. This was a shock return for Lynch who was on a hiatus. Lynch would go on to win the titles with Valkyria solely to show heel the subsequent night time after they dropped the belts again to The Judgment Day.

Whereas talking with The Undertaker and Michelle McCool on the Six Toes Below podcast, Bayley shared her emotions throughout this time.

“That was an fascinating… I really feel like each time I get thrown stuff, it’s like I’m simply being examined — not by the corporate, the universe and the world is making an attempt to check me. It was tough. It was somewhat bittersweet. I turned actually shut with Lyra in actual life, and so I used to be tremendous excited for her to have her first WrestleMania.

We’re like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna be in a storyline and a tag workforce with this lady that I don’t even know.’ I keep in mind first telling her, ‘That is what we’re doing,’ and I’m simply speaking about going to WrestleMania as a tag workforce. Like, don’t you assume that’s type of unusual? You’re the Intercontinental Champion, and we don’t even know one another. So I felt bizarre about it. However all through the time, we had a number of matches. I’m like, ‘Rattling, we now have good chemistry.’ Then we had this Tag Workforce Gauntlet Match to get to WrestleMania. We had like 5 matches in a single night time. It was like an hour of wrestling. And I used to be like, ‘We’re like a superb workforce.’ I felt genuinely linked along with her.

Once I was informed what was occurring, I used to be like, ‘Oh, now I’m bummed.’ For one, I’m not at WrestleMania, however for 2, we put all this work in and I actually tried to make us seem like a workforce in order that it’s plausible after we get to WrestleMania. So it was tough.”