The road to WrestleMania was interesting this year as it was full of twists and turns. In the weeks leading up to the event it was determined that Bayley & Lyra Valkyria would be challenging Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles, but Bayley was pulled from the match and ultimately replaced by Becky Lynch.
During a recent appearance on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast Bayley discussed what was going through her mind when she found out she was getting pulled from WrestleMania, and she admitted that it was a rough situation.
“That was an interesting… I feel like every time I get thrown stuff, it’s like I’m just being tested — not by the company, the universe and the world is trying to test me. It was rough. It was a little bittersweet. I became really close with Lyra in real life, and so I was super excited for her to have her first WrestleMania.
We’re like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna be in a storyline and a tag team with this girl that I don’t even know.’ I remember first telling her, ‘This is what we’re doing,’ and I’m just talking about going to WrestleMania as a tag team. Like, don’t you think that’s kind of strange? You’re the Intercontinental Champion, and we don’t even know each other. So I felt weird about it. But throughout the time, we had a few matches. I’m like, ‘Damn, we have good chemistry.’ Then we had this Tag Team Gauntlet Match to get to WrestleMania. We had like five matches in one night. It was like an hour of wrestling. And I was like, ‘We’re like a good team.’ I felt genuinely connected with her.
When I was told what was happening, I was like, ‘Oh, now I’m bummed.’ For one, I’m not at WrestleMania, but for two, we put all this work in and I really tried to make us look like a team so that it’s believable when we get to WrestleMania. So it was rough.”
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