Last week during SummerSlam weekend, we had a chance to attend the WWE 2K18 launch party in New York City. SEScoops correspondent Jason Solomon of the popular Solomonster Sounds Off podcast got a chance to speak with Bayley about her shoulder injury, when she expects to be back in the ring, her favorites in the Mae Young Classic tournament and the possibility of Ronda Rousey in WWE.
Regarding her shoulder injury, Bayley said she’s currently undergoing physical therapy. She admitted the process is painful, but she’s thankful she didn’t need surgery.
“I just had my second day of physical therapy today (8/18), which is amazing because you can see the the bruising [on her shoulder], [the doctor] did the scraping which breaks down all the tissues and the muscles, so it’s been nice to actually move my arm. I haven’t been able to put my own hair up or work out or anything, so it’s kind of nice to do that.”
“I know I have a long road ahead but I’m lucky there is no surgery or anything like that. But it’s pretty painful going through the physical therapy. I wasn’t expecting it to be. It’s mentally messing with me, but I’ll be ok, I’ll get through it.
As for when she’ll return, it sounds like “a couple months” is an optimistic time table.
“I’m not sure. They told me it could be a couple months, I’m getting reevaluated in a month or so and will see where I’m at. I’m hoping there I can get the green light but I don’t know.”
When asked about her favorites for the Mae Young Clasic tournament, Bayley has a few picks and she said the tapings she attended exceeded her expectations.
Yeah, I have tons of favorites. I have a lot of friends in there so it was cool to watch. There’s a few people that I didn’t know before, there’s a chick named Piper who just blew my mind. She was amazing, so definitely look out for her. I love Dakotah KAI, Kay Lee Ray, Serena Deeb was one of my mentors coming in from the independents. Everybody, it’s really exceeded all of my expectations.
Bayley also spoke about the possibility of WWE’s Four Horsewomen (herself, Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch) mixing it up with MMA/Ronda Rousey’s Four Horsewomen in a WWE ring one day.
“They were there [at the Mae Young Classic tapings] and we were there, well, Sasha Wasn’t, I know Shayna [Blazer] was in the tournament, she was impressive, so we’ll see what happens, if something were to happen, I would accept it, I’m not scared.”
Check out the full video below, which also includes interviews with WWE Champion Jinder Mahal, Braun Strowman, RAW General Manager Kurt Angle, former RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss and former NXT Champion Bobby Roode.
