Rejected WWE Ring Name For Bayley Revealed

Former WWE Women’s Champion Bayley has revealed a ring name she could’ve chosen ahead of her WWE debut, but ultimately rejected.

With Bayley being a women’s Grand Slam Champion, “here is your winner, Bayley” is a phrase WWE fans have gotten used to hearing over the past decade.

Speaking on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, Bayley revealed that “Davia” was a WWE-approved name which Bayley could’ve chosen to compete under, with the Role Model having previously wrestled as Davina Rose outside of the company.

Explaining how she ultimately landed on Bayley, she explained:

“I didn’t choose Bayley, I remember in NXT, you have to give a list of names. I wanted to use a unisex name because I felt nobody was really doing that. So I gave a list of unisex names, I don’t believe I chose Bayley, I don’t think that was on there.

“But when they gave me my names back there was like a list of three different names. One was Bailey, one was Davia, no N, not Davina, just Davia. I was like ‘That’s not even a name.’ They were trying to help me out and get me close to my indie name.

“Rob Naylor who used to work with us, he was like Dusty’s right hand man, I said ‘I don’t really care for these, can I send in another list?’ He’s like ‘I’m not supposed to tell you but they want to put you on TV this week, so you need to choose one of these or you have to wait,’ so I was like ‘Okay, I choose Bailey!’

“They spelled it B-A-I, so I said ‘Can I just have B-A-Y because I’m from the Bay Area. Lyra (Valkyria) makes fun of me, I don’t know why she thinks that’s so funny.”

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Elsewhere in the interview, Bayley shared her honest thoughts on WWE stars who didn’t grow up watching wrestling, which you can read more about right here.

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