Bayley On Why She Wants To Feud With Eva Marie, How She Feels About The Term ‘Diva’ And More

NXT Women’s Champion Bayley recently did a Q&A with Rolling Stone while promoting her match with Sasha Banks at NXT Takeover: Respect. During the interview she talked about who wants to feud with in the future and more. You can check out the interview here and read some highlights below.

If you’re able to retain your title at TakeOver: Respect, who would you like to put the Women’s Championship on the line against next?

“I mean; if I can beat Sasha, there’s so many. Nia Jax, I’ve worked house shows with her, and she always gets such a great reaction – she’s so unique, and she’s going to be a good thing for NXT as a whole. Fans have never seen anybody like her. It would be exciting to be able to do something with her, and Asuka as well. I was on Shimmer with her; I never got to have a match with her, but watching her matches with Sara Del Rey, or working with a few Japanese girls, to get a little taste of that style, I’d like to get into that to grow as a wrestler. And this might sound bad, but I really want to work with Eva Marie, just because it seems like that’s what people want.”

Why would that sound bad?

“[Laughs] My fans don’t like her, so I don’t want them to be like, “Oh, why do you want to work with her?” But the reason is because she’s a different competitor and I think we’d have an interesting dynamic. I get a lot of tweets about Eva, and I can’t blame the fans, because all they really know is what they see on Total Divas, and they base their cheers on that, I guess. I’ve never personally had a problem with her; I don’t see her much, but the shows that she has done, I’ve seen her progressing each match, each show, each training session. I know that the drive is there to get better, so it’s up to her to see how far she can go.”

In the build to TakeOver: Respect, you’ve been promoting your match with Sasha using the hashtag #WomensWrestling – what do you think of the term ‘Diva?‘

“Well, I’m obviously part of the Divas now, working here. I don’t really see the difference – sometimes when someone uses the term “Diva,” or you see it on TV or in a movie, it’s like, “Oh, she’s just being a Diva,” which sounds really bad and really prissy. But I think that’s just a title here; none of the girls up on the main roster are prissy or have attitudes or anything like that. So I think it gets a bad rap from TV and movies, but I just use “Women’s Wrestling” because that’s what I grew up on, that’s what drove me to get to this point and that’s what I want to push. And, technically, I am the NXT Women’s Champion, so until I’m the Divas Champion, I’m going to keep using that.”