Bayley has always had passionate fans dating back to her time in NXT. Now, it seems some of her fans have taken offence to Britt Baker using a role model gimmick. Admittedly, the gimmicks are still quite different.
Baker discussed the attention she is getting from the fans on Talk is Jericho. Here is the full quote, courtesy of Cageside Seats:
“No, we did not steal the role model gimmick from Bayley…the inspiration came from you, from Chris Jericho, for the role model gimmick. I don’t want to say I don’t know totally what’s going on with Raw and SmackDown, because I try to stay in touch with it, but at the same time, I’m a dentist and a professional wrestler. I don’t know every single storyline going on each week.
So it wasn’t until I actually said the word ‘role model’ on TV, and then I’ve got the Bayley army coming at me – ‘You’re stealing her gimmick!’, that I even knew that she was calling herself that too. Granted, totally different uses of the words, totally different gimmicks, as we call it. But I want to set the record straight, that no we didn’t steal that from anybody. Well I stole it from you, not from her.”
Jericho also chimed in on the subject, saying Bayley and Sasha likely took the idea from him anyway.
“Yeah and she probably stole it from me too, because I think her and Sasha watch a lot of my stuff and Eddie’s stuff…and I probably stole it from somebody too, so I wouldn’t worry about it. I never saw it as a Bayley thing, I just saw it as a great idea for you to do.”
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