Bayley Appreciation (Don't open if you don't like her!!)
Oct 6, 2015 14:23:59 GMT -5
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Post by Bandit on Oct 6, 2015 14:23:59 GMT -5
I've always been amazed by the connection you have with your fans – particularly young girls. Is being a role model important to you?
It's hugely important, especially now. Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches, or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory. She was showing what she could do in the ring – how athletic she was, and how serious she was about the sport – and not all that other stuff that used to go on. She was the first wrestler I ever met. When I was 13, she shook my hand and she was like, "I'm going to see you in the ring one day, aren't I?" She was so nice to me and I was just a kid, and that stuck with me. That's something that I really want to carry on. We all do – Sasha and Becky and Charlotte, we've had so many conversations about it, about how we want the division respected, and not just what we're doing in the ring, but how we carry ourselves outside the ring, how we relate to fans.
Did you have a Bayley when you were a young fan?
Lita made me realize it was possible to just be myself and be able to achieve my dreams. I would watch every interview with her, read every interview, I had her DVD – or back then, it was VHS – but I remember she would say that fans would come up to her at autograph sessions and be like, "Man, I feel like we would be friends if you weren't on TV." And that always stuck with me. Lita was the one who made me realize that I didn't have to change who I was to be where I wanted.
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/bayley-nxts-womens-champion-leads-a-wrestling-revolution-20151006#ixzz3nok2YPSl
It's hugely important, especially now. Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches, or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory. She was showing what she could do in the ring – how athletic she was, and how serious she was about the sport – and not all that other stuff that used to go on. She was the first wrestler I ever met. When I was 13, she shook my hand and she was like, "I'm going to see you in the ring one day, aren't I?" She was so nice to me and I was just a kid, and that stuck with me. That's something that I really want to carry on. We all do – Sasha and Becky and Charlotte, we've had so many conversations about it, about how we want the division respected, and not just what we're doing in the ring, but how we carry ourselves outside the ring, how we relate to fans.
Did you have a Bayley when you were a young fan?
Lita made me realize it was possible to just be myself and be able to achieve my dreams. I would watch every interview with her, read every interview, I had her DVD – or back then, it was VHS – but I remember she would say that fans would come up to her at autograph sessions and be like, "Man, I feel like we would be friends if you weren't on TV." And that always stuck with me. Lita was the one who made me realize that I didn't have to change who I was to be where I wanted.
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/bayley-nxts-womens-champion-leads-a-wrestling-revolution-20151006#ixzz3nok2YPSl
