This past Monday on RAW, Alexa Bliss delivered an angle that wasn’t received well by the WWE Universe as she attempted to host a “This Is Your Life” segment for Bayley.
The angle featured some people from Bayley’s past, such as her ex-boyfriend and former best friend who ended up making out in the end. The crowd wasn’t really into it and the WWE was so ashamed with the segment that virtually all references to the segment were removed from their YouTube page, with the exception of Bliss’ attack on Bayley following the event:
WWE Hall Of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler took to his podcast, Dinner With The King, to comment on the angle and stated that the WWE needs to “move on” from it:
“Sometimes things happen that just don’t turn out like you envision it. I’m sure that’s exactly what happened there. Here’s the other thing: it’s live T.V. That’s a double-edged sword, believe me. When something doesn’t turn out the way you planned it, there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s there. It was live and everybody saw it. That was just one of those cases. You just gotta move on.”
Lawler also referenced what RAW commentator Booker T said during the ordeal, as his fellow Hall Of Famer said it was “hard to watch”:
“You know what, that could have well have been a Vince [McMahon] line. I’m not sure, because I wasn’t there. But either way, that was the right thing to say. It was probably conveying the thoughts of everybody watching it.”
One night after losing the Raw women’s championship in her hometown, Bayley will team up with Sasha Banks to take on Nia Jax, the newly crowned champion, Alexa Bliss.
The match was announced earlier today by a guy Chris Jericho thinks is Tom Phillips:
Raw’s women’s division grew deeper after the Superstar Shakeup. It now consists of: Alexa Bliss (c), Bayley, Sasha Banks, Nia Jax, Mickie James, Emma, Dana Brooke and Alicia Fox. On the roster but currently inactive: Summer Rae, Paige (might not return).
Despite the increased roster size, the division still only had 1 match on the PPV last night.
Tonight’s episode of Raw takes place inside the Golden 1 Centre in Sacramento, California.
Alexa Bliss made history at last night’s WWE Payback pay-per-view when she defeated hometown star Bayley for the RAW Women’s Championship. Bliss is now the first to hold both the SmackDown Women’s Championship (twice) and the RAW Women’s Championship.
It’s an impressive feat for Bliss, who was one of seven NXT Superstars drafted to the main roster last July. Of that group, a strong case could be made that Bliss has had the most success in WWE.
After her heartbreaking loss at Payback, Bayley was interviewed backstage and said it doesn’t matter that she dropped the title in front of her hometown crowd. The symbol of her long journey and her hard work now sits around the waist of Alexa Bliss, whom Bayley says has no respect for anybody. With a dejected tone, Bayley admitted, “I’m not happy and it sucks.”
Here’s a look at Alexa Bliss’ first photo shoot with the RAW Women’s Championship.
On the heels of her historic title win, Alexa Bliss will be Chris Jericho’s guest next week on the Talk is Jericho podcast.
This Sunday, Bayley defends the RAW Women’s Championship against Alexa Bliss at WWE Payback. Ahead of her title defense, Bayley appeared on The Other Guys Podcast to discuss her WrestleMania experience, her and Sasha Banks making history in NXT, the state of WWE’s Women’s Revolution and more. Here are some highlights of what she said about:
WWE Payback Taking Place in her Hometown:
“I’m really excited because I have watched WWE live events and Raw and Smackdown inside the arena where we are wrestling on Sunday. I kind of just grew up there, and it’s going to be so cool to be able to walk down the ramp and now have my family and friends watch me as the champion.”
Making History With Sasha Banks in NXT:
“We were both really emotional during all of it. That Brooklyn match won match of the year actually for NXT, and it was voted on by the fans so that was a huge accomplishment, and we still get questions about that match…The other day we even said it’s so crazy that we had that match, and that it had such an impact that years from now we can look back and just be proud of that one match if not anything else.”
The State of WWE’s Women’s Revolution:
“We are kind of still building each other on both Raw and Smackdown, but it’s definitely taken huge leaps and bounds where Sasha and Charlotte were able to main event PPVs like Hell In A Cell and first ever matches and do all this stuff…It’s taken huge steps, but obviously we all want the number one goal to be main eventing Wrestlemania. We are still working towards that, there’s always more work to be done, but I am so happy and proud to see how far it’s come.
Dusty Rhodes’ Influence on Her Career:
“When I first got to FCW…I was going nowhere. I had no personality, no character. He put me in extra promo classes with like 5 other people, and this was aside from the promo class that we already had to do because he knew I needed work…I would cry in front of the camera, but he would calm me down, and just say talk from your heart, talk from your heart, be who you are, and I didn’t think that was good enough, but he told me it was. So I kept going with who I was, and it kind of formed into what it is now…He just really found that something special inside you that you didn’t even knew that you had.”
You can listen to the full interview below. H/T to PWPodcasts.com for the transcribed quotes.
A user on reddit has posted a video of AJ Lee promoting her new book, Crazy Is My Superpower at Book Revue in Huntington, New York. Lee stated that she hasn’t really kept up with WWE recently. Lee also said that Bayley is like her little sister and feels that she is continuing her legacy.
Orlando Fans Sing Nakamura’s Theme
Shinsuke Nakamura made his main roster debut Tuesday night on Smackdown. After the show, fans filed out of the arena and started to sing Nakamura’s theme music.
Minor Mishap During Bayley’s Wrestlemania 33 Entrance
Raw Women’s Champion Bayley tripped over one of the inflatable tubes in her entrance during Wrestlemania 33. Bayley responded to a fan about the incident on Twitter:
WWE uploaded a preview of Raw Women’s Championship Fatal 4-Way Elimination Match that is taking place tomorrow night at Wrestlemania 33. Bayley will defend her title against Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Nia Jax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcz1d_bJp6Q
The WWE has also uploaded a video of Bayley leading up to her match at Wrestlemania 33. In the video, Bayley informs Asuka that she has a signing during NXT TakeOver: Orlando and will unable to watch the event. Bayley assured Asuka that she will be rooting for her and will watch the event on her phone. Also in the video, footage was shown of Bayley announcing the 32-competitor Women’s Tournament that will air on the WWE Network this summer.
The WWE has posted a new video of 2017 Hall of Famers Teddy Long, Beth Phoenix, Rock ‘n’ Roll Express, Diamond Dallas Page and Kurt Angle receiving their rings from Triple H and Vince McMahon. Rick Rude’s family also received a Hall of Fame ring.
The WWE also uploaded a new 360 interview with Daniel Bryan and Kurt Angle. Bryan and Angle debated what would happen if a dream match were to take place between the two.
Bayley posted a photo of her and Scott Hall earlier today. Bayley was wearing a classic Razor Ramon jacket.
Bayley recently had an interview with Fox Sports and discussed her recent Snickers commercial and Wrestlemania 33 taking place in Orlando.
Bayley on her Snickers commercial:
“I had to mess it up a few times. Dude, it was so fun. They had a script for me, and as it was going on they were like ‘oh it would be cool if you did this,’ or ‘it would be cool if you do this!’ And I would sometimes not say the right line and they’d be like ’it’s cool, let’s try that one!’ Yeah, I had to mess up the room a few times. I threw so many cups at the assistant. We were using red cups before and they were like ‘nah, those don’t fly as good.’ I’m actually kind of sad because at the end we had the shot of me kicking the table… and we actually shot one where I was dropping an elbow onto the couch and I was kind of hoping they’d keep that. one, but it was so much fun.”
Wrestlemania 33 in Orlando:
“Totally, it’s considered a home to me. We really just started there. We had a million matches there in Orlando, trained for hours at the Performance Center every single day. And I know a lot of the Orlando fans are going to be there – the ones who were there when nobody else was when we weren’t traveling out to all these states and to different countries and everything. They were always there to support us. So it’s nice to bring all of WWE there and be able to experience that with them. Hoping to see a bunch of them at Axxess.”
Bayley is the star of a new Snickers advertisement. In the ad, Bayley is very upset that she was bumped from a talk show. Bayley replaces the “F” word with “hug” and proceeds to flip out at the assistant and the camera man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgO3uHXwYdw
The WWE uploaded a video of the Top 10 Wrestlemania betrayals.
Bayley’s win over Charlotte last night at Fastlane was significant for a few reasons. It guarantees that Bayley will be part of the Raw women’s title match at WrestleMania, and it also ends Charlotte’s PPV winning streak.
Her journey to the women’s championship wasn’t a long one. She’s only been on the roster since last summer. Below I take a look at her match statistics since her debut on the main roster. None of the statistics below include results from house shows.
Bayley’s Main Roster Match Stats
Singles Matches: 11-5 3-Way Matches 0-2 Tag Team Matches 6-3 Total: 17W-10L
No real trends developed when putting together these numbers, other than she wins more than she loses. They don’t completely protect her however, as she’s been beaten by both Charlotte and Nia Jax multiple times.
1. Bayley and Sasha Banks defeated Charlotte and Dana Brooke – Battleground 2016
2. Bayley defeated Dana Brooke – Raw August 22nd 2016
3. Bayley and New Day defeated Dana Brooke and the Club – Raw August 29th 2016
4. Bayley defeated Charlotte – Raw September 5th 2016
5. Sasha Banks defeated Bayley and Dana Brooke – 3way for #1 Contenders spot- Raw Sept. 12
6. Charlotte and Dana Brooke defeated Bayley and Sasha Banks – Raw Sept. 19th 2016
7. Charlotte defeats Bayley and Sasha Banks- 3-way for Raw women’s championship – Clash of Champions 2016
8. Bayley defeated Anna Fields- Raw Sept 26th 2016
9. Bayley defeated Came Fields – Raw October 10th 2016
10. Dana Brooke defeated Bayley – Raw October 17th 2016
11. Bayley defeated Dana Brooke – Hell in a Cell 2016
12. Nia Jax defeated Bayley – Raw October 31st 2016
13. Alicia Fox, Bayley, and Sasha Banks defeated Charlotte, Dana Brooke and Nia Jax – Raw November 7th 2016
14. Team Raw Defeated Team Smackdown – Survivor Series 2016
15. Bayley and Sasha Banks defeated Charlotte Flair and Nia Jax – Raw November 21st 2016
16. Bayley defeated Alicia Fox – Raw December 5th 2016
17. Bayley defeated Dana Brooke – Tribute to the Troops 2016
18. Bayley defeated Charlotte Flair – Raw December 19th 2016
19. Charlotte Flair defeated Bayley – Raw December 26th 2016
20. Bayley defeated Nia Jax – Raw January 2nd 2017
21. Charlotte and Nia Jax defeated Bayley and Sasha Banks – Raw January 9th 2017
22. Charlotte defeated Bayley – women’s championship match- Royal Rumble 2017
23. Bayley, Cesaro and Sheamus defeated Charlotte and the Club – Raw January 30th 2017
24. Nia Jax defeated Bayley – Raw February 6th 2017
25. Bayley defeated Charlotte Flair – wins women’s championship – Raw February 13th 2017
26. Charlotte and Nia Jax defeated Bayley and Sasha Banks- Raw February 27th 2017
27. Bayley defeated Charlotte Flair – retains women’s championship – Fastlane 2017
Posted March 6th, 2017 in WWE, News. Tagged: Bayley.
– John Cena hosts this year’s Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards, which take place on Saturday, March 11th. Cena is featured in this promo video rapping a “remix” of his entrance theme to promote the event.
– A sitdown interview with Seth Rollins has been announced for next week’s RAW from Green Bay, the final show before Fastlane on 3/5. Rollins will discuss his injury, Samoa Joe, Triple H and more. Rollins was not backstage this week as he was in Alabama where he continues rehabbing the knee injury. Goldberg has also been announced for next week’s RAW.
WWE announced on tonight’s RAW that Charlotte will get her RAW Women’s Championship rematch from Bayley at the 3/5 Fastlane PPV from Milwaukee.
Enzo and Cass vs. RAW Tag Team Champions Gallows and Anderson is also official for Fastlane. Enzo and Cass defeated Cesaro and Sheamus in a #1 contender’s match on RAW to earn the match.
Here is the updated Fastlane card:
– Kevin Owens defends the WWE Universal Championship against Goldberg
– Neville defends the WWE Cruiserweight Championship against Jack Gallagher
– Charlotte gets her rematch from RAW Women’s Champion Bayley
– Gallows and Anderson defend the RAW Tag Team Championships against Enzo and Cass
Bayley defeated Charlotte in the main event of Monday’s RAW from Las Vegas to capture the RAW Women’s Championship. This marks her first main roster title reign and the 8th title reign for the RAW Women’s Championship, which was introduced last year at WrestleMania.
Bayley is a former NXT Wonen’s Champion and made her main roster debut last summer. Based on this victory, it appears she’s going to have a big role at WrestleMania 33. You can be sure that Charlotte will expect a rematch sooner than later, with Sasha Banks and Nia Jax also in the title picture.
Discussion: Do you think it was the right time for Bayley to win the RAW Women’s Championship, or should WWE have built this up longer, with her coming up short many times before finally reaching the top of the mountain?
Charlotte is already focused on getting her title back. Charlotte tweeted this message after losing the championship:
I've succeeded and failed throughout my life based on one person and one person only. ME. This isn't done. #Raw#RoadTo5x
There is so much content packed into a three hour episode of Monday Night Raw, sometimes it takes a bit for things to register. Last night, Nia Jax demolished Sasha Banks for the second night in a row. The crowd didn’t care. They didn’t really boo when Nia Jax went after Sasha’s injured knee. There was mass confusion in this match because the timekeeper rang the bell too early and the referee had called for the bell yet. Moving past that, the goal of this segment was clearly to get heat on Nia Jax and make the WWE Universe dislike her. Sure, there may have been a smattering of boos but I think this segment was a huge failure. It didn’t help anyone. The WWE has tried to get people invested in this storyline but it just hasn’t worked. When they aired that video of Nia Jax attacking Sasha Banks while she was getting evaluated, did you care? I know I didn’t.
That was two weeks ago and here we are doing the same thing. Sasha Banks is playing up an injury and Nia Jax is taking advantage of it. Bayley begged Sasha to not fight Nia Jax last night on Raw. Sasha dismissed Bayley and ignored her suggestion. She wound up getting her ass kicked by Nia Jax for the second night in a row. After the match, Bayley helped Sasha Banks to the trainer’s room. The WWE clearly laid the groundwork for something between Bayley and Sasha Banks last night. It just got lost in the shuffle.
Nia Jax has been a failure to this point. On the main roster, she has not connected at all. Say what you want about Charlotte, at least she generates a reaction. I enjoy Charlotte’s work as a heel and I think she is terrific at cutting promos that piss people off. Her feud/storyline with Bayley has been very lame so far but that is another rant for another day. Nia Jax doesn’t matter right now. That is because she was off TV way too long and to be honest, she hasn’t had a good match on the main roster. Everything she has been a part of since joining Raw has been forgettable.
This article was supposed to be about Sasha Banks, so why did I bring up Nia Jax? I think Sasha Banks is 10x the heel that Nia Jax is. She is just playing the role of a face right now and it is not working. If it was working, people would have cared that Nia Jax was targeting her injured knee. Nobody cared. Nia Jax just isn’t connecting with the WWE Universe whatsoever and the audience has completely lost interest in Sasha Banks.
Sasha Banks needs to turn heel. If Bayley defeats Charlotte and wins the Raw Women’s Championship, she will need someone to feud with. I’m not sure if Nia Jax is the answer anymore. That hasn’t exactly panned out the way I thought it would. Banks had a particular tone with Bayley and said that “unlike some people, I am not okay with coming up short.” I took that as a direct jab at Bayley for having a smile on her face the night after losing a match for the Raw Women’s Championship against Charlotte. We’ll see what happens but I think it is time to turn Sasha Banks heel. The audience simply does not care about her right now and they do not care about Nia Jax either. Hopefully this interaction with Bayley last night is a sign of things to come for Sasha Banks.
The current plan for WrestleMania 33 has Bayley winning the RAW Women’s Championship from Charlotte, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. The build for the big title change is supposed to mirror Daniel Bryan’s storyline for WrestleMania 33. Stephanie McMahon ran Bayley down on last night’s RAW, and is expected to feud with Bayley more as we get closer to WrestleMania.
As reported earlier, Bayley defeated Nia Jax last night on RAW to become the new #1 contender. She will get her first championship shot at the 1/29 Royal Rumble PPV but she isn’t expected to win there.
Bayley vs. Charlotte for the RAW Women’s Championship is now official for the 1/29 Royal Rumble PPV from San Antonio, TX. Bayley defeated Nia Jax on tonight’s RAW to become the new #1 contender.
Also on tonight’s RAW, The New Day entered their names into the thirty-man Rumble main event.
Below is the updated card for Royal Rumble:
– AJ Styles defends the WWE Championship against John Cena
– Kevin Owens defends the WWE Universal Championship against Roman Reigns while Chris Jericho hangs above the ring in a shark cage
– Charlotte defends the RAW Women’s Championship against Bayley
– The 30 Man Royal Rumble match with Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, Big E, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and others
– Luke Harper vs. Dean Ambrose has been announced for tonight’s SmackDown main event. Ambrose will have to deal with The Wyatt Family at ringside. WWE posted this ad for tonight’s show:
– Bayley wants her RAW Women’s Championship shot after pinning Charlotte in a non-title match last night on RAW. She calls on Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley to grant her the shot in this backstage Fallout video:
– Paige is receiving all sorts of interesting comments from fans after she posted a sappy love tweet about her relationship with Alberto Del Rio last night. You can read the full tweet below, where she says she might “steal” Del Rio’s wrestling moves when he returns to the ring:
RAW Superstar Bayley has been dating independent wrestler Aaron Solow and Women’s wrestling news site SquaredCircleSirens reports the couple was engaged early last week.
Solow is a high-flyer that served as as an “alternate” stand-by wrestler during this summer’s Cruiserweight Classic tournament. He participated in the ‘CWC Combine’ at the Performance Center, but did not compete in the actual tournament.
Congratulations to the couple.
Posted November 29th, 2016 in News, WWE. Tagged: Bayley.
– Last week’s Total Divas viewership is in after being delayed due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The show drew 461,000 viewers, down from the season six premiere that drew 632,000 viewers. Total Divas ranked #46 on the Cable Top 150 last Wednesday night, down from the previous week’s #22 ranking.
– WWE officials are moving forward with plans for the early-2017 all-women’s tournament on the WWE Network, according to PWInsider. No word yet on exactly when the tourney will be taped but there is interest in Heidi Lovelace, Nixon Newell, Evie and Kimber Lee, among other indy wrestlers. There’s also talk of using NXT enhancement talents Rachael Ellering and Deonna Purrazzo.
– SmackDown GM General Manager is not letting up as he tries to bring RAW Superstars Cesaro and Sami Zayn to Tuesday nights. After Sami’s heated segment with RAW GM Mick Foley last night, Bryan tweeted the following to Zayn:
The following are highlights from Bayley’s recent appearance on the Card Subject To Change podcast:
Getting Frustrated In NXT Before Getting Called Up: “There were times yes, but I think I was very lucky to just be there. Even when Sasha,Charlotte and Becky were call to WWE I spent another year there, but I think looking back now that’s the year where I learnt the most.”
Her Reaction To Finally Getting Called Up: “It’s tough but it’s all worth it. It’s been a long road for me coming from NXT. I was in NXT for almost 4 years, and just getting to the WWE and now being able to travel with them and kind of have to make new friends, get hotel rooms, travel to different cities every single night. It’s very different and so much fun. All the hard work in NXT that prepared me for this has been worth so valuable.”
Sasha and Charlotte’s Hell in a Cell Match: “They exceeded all my expectations. I knew it was going to be amazing and scary and dangerous. They were going to do whatever it took to steal the show but I just didn’t expect to see the things that I saw.”
Her Relationship With Sasha: “It’s amazing. It’s really helpful. She’s been here for a year before me so she’s able to help me along, I know where to be, when to be where I have to be….She’s one of the few people that will be a friend after this.”
The Biggest Lesson She’s Learned From Wrestling: “I would say just to stay true to what I believe in and stay true to myself. That was something I learned from the very beginning when I first got to NXT. I had a long conversation with AJ Lee when I just felt a little bit lost…She told me just to be able to meet them half way. Obviously you have to do what they want but you also have to stay true to yourself and you have to feel comfortable doing what you’re doing.”
You can subscribe to the Card Subject To Change podcast on iTunes.
Posted November 13th, 2016 in News, WWE. Tagged: Bayley.
Not only does WWE have some loud “ICW” chants they may have to edit from tonight’s RAW broadcast, they also have an entire women’s segment that was hijacked by Bayley chants.
Below is video from the segment with Women’s Champion Charlotte and others, which does contain spoilers for Team RAW at Survivor Series.
– Bayley will join Jonathan Coachman this Wednesday on ESPN’s SportsCenter for the weekly Off The Top Rope segment.
– WWE taped Curtis Axel vs. Darren Young and Golden Truth vs. Jinder Mahal & Titus O’Neil last night in Memphis for this week’s WWE Superstars episode.
– Steve Austin and his “Stunner” are featured in this new WWE Network promo:
– Cesaro is featured in this backstage video from last night’s RAW after tying the Best of 7 Series with Sheamus at 3-3. Cesaro talks about the Cesaro Section being behind him wherever he goes and the special connection they have, calling it a connection that other people don’t understand.
RAW GM Mick Foley announced on tonight’s RAW that Sunday’s Women’s Championship Match at Clash of Champions will now be a Triple Threat with Bayley added to the match due a double pin in last week’s #1 contenders match.
Below is the updated card for The Clash:
WWE Universal Championship Match: Kevin Owens (c) vs. Seth Rollins
RAW Women’s Championship Triple Threat: Charlotte (c) vs. Sasha Banks vs. Bayley
RAW Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day (c) vs. Gallows & Anderson
WWE US Championship Match: Rusev (c) vs. Roman Reigns