Bayley’s fall from grace since her call up to the main roster from NXT has been remarkable — from a titleholder at WrestleMania 33 to being squashed by Nia Jax on Raw last night and being totally dominated by Alexa Bliss in a recent feud, which frankly did neither lady any favors.
Cue an appearance on The Steve Austin show where the Hugger revealed she isn’t sure what to make of her current WWE position and discussed that if there is a change of direction for her character, she would take inspiration from the late great Eddie Guerrero on how to play bad girl Bayley:
As far as wrestling and stuff, and him being amazing and being able to do it all, literally one of the guys that can do it all, I remember watching him — this was like a couple years ago, so I was already here — and I was watching his old matches in WCW when he was just a heel coming out with his hair soaking wet. He looked miserable!
You don’t get that anymore out of heels being like coming out like they’re completely miserable and that makes you like… “Gah, dude, if you don’t want to be here just don’t come then!” That’s how I felt watching him. It’s like “Why are you even doing this if you don’t even want to do it?”
And then he’d get into the ring and be so nasty and just have that look of like disgust and he was too good for it all. I don’t know, it was something about that, like, I always told myself too if I were to ever be heel I want to make myself so miserable because that’s one of the most hateable things, I think.
For obvious reasons, Bayley is also questioning her position on Raw and acknowledged there is big difference between doing what she did in NXT and taking that to the main roster:
With NXT I felt I can do anything. I knew exactly what they wanted and how they were going to react to me and my opponent, no matter who it was. I knew what they can do to get a reaction and what I can do to get sympathy or anything. But with this crowd I’m still kind of figuring them out with WWE.
I think it has a lot to do with, I don’t know, in this day and age the crowds are… it’s so different than back then and they all want to cheer for the wrong person or they’re on their Twitter. That can mess with your head too, just reading tweets and people telling you this and you start to believe it. And you’re like ‘wait…’ I’ve had to stay off Twitter before for a while because that can definitely mess with your head. I’ve seen it happen to people and I hear people talk about it. It shouldn’t matter because we’re doing our job and what we’re told to do and what we love.
But I’m still kind of figuring them out. I feel right now I’m kind of in a weird spot with my career. So when I first came I felt like “Alright, I’m still from NXT.” I felt like I knew exactly what I was doing. But now I’m just… you know how we were talking a couple months ago and you were helping me out with matches and stuff and how I need to go about certain things, I’m still figuring it out.
I’m at a weird spot right now.
So are you guys still Huggers after hearing Bayley? What would you guys like to see happen with her character.
