Bayley says the vision is clear when it comes to her road to WrestleMania 40.
Bayley won the 2024 Women's Royal Rumble, so she has earned a title shot of her choosing at WrestleMania 40. Bayley previously made it clear that she intended to challenge Women's World Champion Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania, as her Damage CTRL IYO SKY holds the WWE Women's Championship. But on the January 29 episode of WWE Raw, Nia Jax attacked Ripley, confronted Bayley, and told her that Ripley would not make it to WrestleMania.
Speaking on WWE's The Bump, Bayley was asked how much Nia Jax may have changed her game plans.
“First of all, what would you do if Nia Jax was walking towards you? You would run for your life, okay? Damage CTRL saw that I can handle myself against 29 other women at the Royal Rumble, so they weren’t worried about me. I’ve dealt with Nia so many times. I’ve beaten her in the past, okay. I knew she wasn’t there for me, she was there for Rhea Ripley. To me, my goal stays the same. Like I said on Monday, you’ve never seen anything like Damage CTRL before, you’ve never seen a lineage of all these champions in the ring at once, a Royal Rumble winner in the ring at once. This handful of talent, it’s never been done before. That’s gonna continue. When I make my decision on Friday, it’s gonna continue at WrestleMania when we’re all champions, when we’re all holding gold, and nobody can deny us because we’re on top of the world," Bayley said.
Bayley was then asked whether there was really a decision to be made, given what Bayley has said about facing Ripley. She responded by stating that she gave everyone the scoop weeks ago, as she talked about facing Ripley weeks ago. She praised Ripley and Judgment Day but made it clear that Rhea did not have her experience or her stablemates.
"I don’t know why everybody’s like, ‘So, what’s gonna be your decision? Can we have the scoop?’ You guys had the scoop weeks ago. I said it from the beginning that I was going to win the Royal Rumble. I said it even before they won the tag yeah titles, I said I want all these things, that I can beat Rhea. Look, props to Rhea, she’s younger than me, she’s stronger than me, she’s faster than me, she sells more merch than me. I haven’t had a freaking shirt in a year. But she’s not Damage CTRL. Yeah, Judgment Day won faction of the year. Good for them, they have worked their butts off. They are on every single show, they’re all over the place, and I would have done the same thing to R-Truth, so props to them. But they’re not Damage CTRL, and Rhea Ripley is not Bayley. She doesn’t have my experience, she doesn’t have my vision, she doesn’t have my girls. But yeah, there’s no decision to be made. The vision is clear," Bayley said.
Ripley has said that Bayley should not throw away her title shot by choosing to face her at WrestleMania. Check out her comments here.
Click here to see what Bayley had to say about winning the Royal Rumble.
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