The current WWE Women’s Champion Bayley who is heading into SummerSlam on Saturday against Nia Jax, gave her opponent some kudos. She talks about the change and growth that Nia has had since returning to WWE, but Bayley wants Nia to know that it works both ways.
While speaking on the Hall of Fame podcast, she had the following to say:
“This Nia Jax is different. I’ve known Nia for the past ten years, and she’s always been strong, she’s always been dominant. But I think that time away from WWE really got her mind going in a different way, and it’s got her firing on different cylinders. When she came back, it was like there was no time to mess around. She wasn’t gonna just be happy to be here. She was gonna come here, and she was gonna make a change, and she was gonna put people on notice.
She was gonna make people notice her because you see fans talk about it, this is her greatest run, and she proved that with the Queen of the Ring. She had some amazing matches, and I know she’s kind of just firing on that momentum. So that is a little nerve-wracking, aside from her strength alone. But I’m on a different level too. I’m different than [when] she’s seen me the last time, and now I have created the longest women’s faction in history. I’ve won Royal Rumble, I’ve done a few things since I’ve come back from injury, and the pandemic era alone, I think I was able to grow so much. So she needs to realize, I know she won Queen of the Ring, but I’ve also changed so much and I’ve also grown so much. So my experience I think is what I’m gonna have to put up against someone like her.” (Fightful)
In this same interview, Bayley spoke about another topic and that is the idea of adding another championship belt into the women’s division.
Her sentiments on this were –
“Of course, yeah. They’re doing that in NXT right now with the NXT Women’s North American Title. I would love for us to have something like that. I think that would be great. But I always say this, as proud as I am of the Women’s Tag Team Titles, they also don’t always get that time. They don’t always get those matches. So first, I would love to see those take off, and I would love to see the women’s tag division kind of be put on the map and be on these pay-per-views with us. I just feel like they need a little more T.L.C., a little more love because so women have been able to hold them, but we haven’t been able to have that match yet where it’s like, okay, we’ve solidified the women’s tag team division. Now let’s bring in another one. But when that does happen, and I believe will, I know that it’s gonna help a lot of other women shine.” (Fightful)
Bayley will be taking on Nia Jax tonight at SummerSlam. Diva Dirt will have up its discussion posts and results after the show.
