Bayley was recently a guest on E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness hosted by Edge & Christian. She spoke on a wide variety of topics about her career so far in WWE. One of these topics was about being the only one of the Four Horsewomen to not be called up to the WWE main roster.
Charlotte, Becky Lynch, and Sasha Banks made their debuts together on the WWE main roster back in July of 2015. Bayley’s original idea for the group was for them to be called up together as a faction:
“Well, at first, I was a little bummed out because I always thought that myself, Becky, Charlotte, and Sasha would have gone up together and kind of be, in a perfect world, we were going to be this cool faction and then takeover and whatever, change things and stuff like that, but [WWE officials] had a different plan”
Bayley says that she was bummed at first but learned to enjoy her time in NXT and being a locker room leader:
“At first, I was like, ‘oh, this kind of sucks. This is bad and I’m going to miss them.’ They were the ones I was working with all the time, so it was a little hard at first, but once I was like, ‘okay, I’m the champion now, and all these girls are either brand new or they’ve just started, just got signed. Asuka was just getting started, so I took it as, they told me, like, I’m there to kind of help out the younger talent and just kind of lead the women’s division for a bit, which I was so excited to do because, as I was there, I was there just as long as the other girls, a little bit shorter than, like, Charlotte and Sasha, but, like, they were always the leaders, or, like, Paige, was the locker room leader and I never really had my chance to be the one, so after a while, I started taking a huge liking to it and I just enjoyed teaching people and helping the girls. I was like, ‘I’m going to prove I don’t need Sasha or Becky or Charlotte to have good matches or we don’t need them to carry the division anymore”
Bayley also opened up about feeling like the weaker link of the Four Horsewomen:
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“Like, I wanted to prove that I can do it on my own because, in my eyes, I was always kind of seen as the weaker link of the four, so I always wanted to prove to everybody, like, ‘I can do this too and I can help people, lead people, and carry the division,’ so it was a huge honor and I was so happy to be able to, like, carry the championship for that amount of time and then to pass it on to Asuka when it was time and all that. So it was a great [time]. I still think that was probably my most valuable time of my career. I just learned so much in that time.”
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