Bayley Appreciation (Don't open if you don't like her!!)

It's been more than a month since you beat Sasha Banks at TakeOver: Brooklyn to win the NXT Women's Championship.
Have you had a chance to look back on the match, and if so, what sticks out the most from it?

It was really everything. That match was so emotional. My first matches here were against Sasha, and they were just whatever matches, house show matches; I had a practice match with her just so coaches could see how I worked. So it goes that far back, to my first time in Florida Championship Wrestling, and then we get to NXT and we both weren't really doing anything in storylines, and they'd put us in these matches, like a go-to filler match, and they'd give us five minutes or something, and I'd just kind of joke, "Well, I've got Sasha again." And we both grew up loving wrestling and wanting to be the best; deep down, we're the same person – but when it comes to wrestling, we're really competitive.

We had a dark match at the first TakeOver, and as we started getting a little more known with the crowd, we started trying to one-up each other – who can have the better match, who can get the better reaction, whatever. I want to be better than her, and she wants to be better than me. And then when it got to Brooklyn, we knew how special it was. We were going to be able to do this in front of 16,000 people, in the co-main event, and me knowing she cared so much made me emotional, and her knowing I cared made her emotional. And the thought that, if I were to win, it would be one of the last times I'd get to work with her, it was a bittersweet moment. She's definitely my favorite to work with. It's a chemistry that you don't really get with everybody.

If you're able to retain your title at TakeOver: Respect, who would you like to put the Women's Championship on the line against next?

I mean; if I can beat Sasha, there's so many. Nia Jax, I've worked house shows with her, and she always gets such a great reaction – she's so unique, and she's going to be a good thing for NXT as a whole. Fans have never seen anybody like her. It would be exciting to be able to do something with her, and Asuka as well. I was on Shimmer with her; I never got to have a match with her, but watching her matches with Sara Del Rey, or working with a few Japanese girls, to get a little taste of that style, I'd like to get into that to grow as a wrestler. And this might sound bad, but I really want to work with Eva Marie, just because it seems like that's what people want.

Why would that sound bad?

[Laughs] My fans don't like her, so I don't want them to be like, "Oh, why do you want to work with her?" But the reason is because she's a different competitor and I think we'd have an interesting dynamic. I get a lot of tweets about Eva, and I can't blame the fans, because all they really know is what they see on Total Divas, and they base their cheers on that, I guess. I've never personally had a problem with her; I don't see her much, but the shows that she has done, I've seen her progressing each match, each show, each training session. I know that the drive is there to get better, so it's up to her to see how far she can go.

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