Bayley Expresses Excitement About Challenging AJ Lee For WWE Women’s Intercontinental Title

Bayley is amped up for the match.

Coming up on the March 16th edition of Monday Night Raw on Netflix, Bayley will be challenging AJ Lee for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

Bayley won a gauntlet match to earn the title shot, and going into the bout, she spoke to Fox News Digital and expressed her excitement.

“Man, it’s so weird. So weird to think, it’s just like the universe works in mysterious ways. I remember 13 years ago, getting that text that I would be wrestling AJ Lee for the Divas Title and I had just started my character stuff on NXT. I remember that seeming like, ‘What do you mean? What am I? Why? What? This can’t be possible,’ and that’s sort of what I feel like now, just because nobody thought that AJ was going to come back, let alone there be an Intercontinental Women’s Championship, let alone she’d be the champion or ever.

It just seems like one of those things where she would just come back as a one-time, dream match type thing, and even when she did come back, and I’ve told this to her, I was just happy to have her around. We’ve kept in touch these last 10 years and been actual friends outside of the business and just to think that now I get to be in the ring with her, I wasn’t like, ‘I need to have a match with you,’ because I got my match. I just wanted to have my friend around and the fact that we got to do this now, it just seems right. Now, I’m like, ‘Of course we’re supposed to have this match together.’ I would love, love, love to win this championship because I have to finish my grand slam role. I gotta get this one. I gotta get to the United States one, and I gotta get to WrestleMania. So, I have a lot of feelings going into this, and I kinda have to put aside the nostalgia feeling of it.”

It’ll be Lee’s first defense of the belt since capturing it at the Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event by defeating Becky Lynch.