Bayley on Hope for Mercedes Mone’s Future Return to WWE & Creation of Damage CTRL

BT Sport’s Ariel Helwani held a recent interview with Bayley. One of the topics discussed included Bayley’s thoughts on traveling to Japan this past January and being in attendance backstage for Mercedes Mone’s official debut for New Japan Pro Wrestling at their Wrestle Kingdom 17 event.

“I went there on my own. There was a few of us that flew out there just because she’s been there for all my big moments. Even as she hasn’t been part of the company and I’ve made my return and I’ve had my big matches, like, she’s there for me. So, of course, I want to be there for her. We’ve done so much together in WWE.

She means so much to me and so much to the wrestling world, like, I have to be there for this moment.

I literally flew out right after Raw, got to Japan two hours before the show started and raced over there and made it. Met everybody there and sat in the crowd, kind of, incognito. It was so magical to be there for her and I just knew how important it was to her. She just loves this. Everybody knows how much she loves this and how much wrestling means to her and how much WWE means to her and she wouldn’t be there without WWE. So, I think it meant a lot to her that I was able to go.” 

Bayley also gave her thoughts about being hopeful that Mone, former Sasha Banks, will one day return to WWE.

“I’ll never give up hope that she’ll come back.”

Bayley expanded on her comment stating:

“I’ll say yes because this is her home, this is her dream. I love to see what she’s doing and what’s she going to be doing over the next few months. She’s going to literally take over the world, take the world by storm but I know this is her home and where her heart is. And by her heart, I mean me, she needs to come back to me. I need her, I need my travel partner.”

Bayley also gave her thoughts about the creation of Damage CTRL and the talks she has had with WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque over the group’s creative direction.

“That is something that I thought about for a couple of years before it actually happened.

It had a different group of people as the time went on. Peyton Royce was someone that I really wanted in there and Tegan Nox was someone that I wanted in there. There was a lot of people that it kind of changed throughout time as people left the company and things like that. But Dakota was always, she’s one of the OGs who I always envisioned in this group.

I just thought, there’s no women’s factions. There’s been trios and to me, if it were up to me right now, there would be more of us but we’ll see. There’s been trios but there’s never been like a big faction where there is four or five of us and that’s what I wanted.

I talked to Hunter about this a couple of WrestleManias ago and he told me, ‘Well, you need to know why are you guys together. Oh yeah, you guys are cool together but find the reason why. Me and DX for this, me and Evolution were this, and explain those things.’ Then I was like, ‘Maybe I need to think about it more.’ So, when I was injured I thought about it more and shot stuff at the Performance Center while I was there with a group of girls that I really wanted …

My first original one, I wanted to be called The Now cause to me, I didn’t care about the championships I won in the past, I don’t care about what happens next, these girls right here and what were about to do, the present is all that matters.”

Bayley also stated that the reason why her group was not called The Now was due to issues over the name already being in use for a show.

“There’s a show called The Now or something like that.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com