Ariel Helwani Meets:

[Dale]

Gonna use this thread to post his sit-down interviews with WWE talent. This time, Bayley.

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[Chris]

Here's some quotes from that interview:

The 33-year-old spoke with Ariel Helwani for an interview released on Sunday. During the conversation, Bayley was asked about traveling to Japan to witness Mone's appearance in the Tokyo Dome at Wrestle Kingdom. Bayley responded:

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 was asked about the potential of Mone returning to WWE.

I'll never give up hope that she'll come back.

When asked if she believes that will happen, Bayley responded:

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.

Earlier in the conversation, Bayley spoke about the creation of Damage CTRL. She said her original idea was a group with four or five members. She also commented on conversations she's had with Paul "Triple H" Levesque about the faction.

Bayley said of Damage CTRL:

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.

She would continue to say that many of the wrestlers she originally wanted in the faction were released or called up.

Later in the conversation, Bayley said she wanted five wrestlers in the group. She has people in mind but didn't "want to give it away" in case they are added in the future.

Bayley continued to talk about names she envisioned for the faction.

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.

When asked why the group was given the name, Bayley responded, "There's a show called The Now or something like that."

 

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Undertaker one coming Sunday

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[Deezy]

Ariel Shilwani.....the man who took down half the rasslin "journalists" with a few tweets and a segment on his show.

 

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15 minute one with GUNTHER​

 

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