Bayley Shares Honest Thoughts On WWE Stars Who Didn’t Grow Up Watching Wrestling

WWE star Bayley has shared her honest thoughts on whether or not she believes wrestlers who grew up as fans are more passionate performers.

There are many paths to WWE, with the current roster including stars who cut their teeth on the independent scene for decades before signing, as well as former college athletes who were scouted for pro-wrestling from other sports.

Speaking on Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, Bayley commented on the level of passion that lifelong fans have compared to those who found wrestling through other means.

Discussing her real relationships with veteran wrestlers like Sami Zayn and Mercedes Mone, she explained:

“No it’s not there as much anymore (the passion from being a fan beforehand) but it is my connection to a lot of the girls or guys or whatever. It’s like a different kind of passion, Sami Zayn says it perfectly, ‘We’re the fans who took it too far’. We’re the biggest fans who took it too far because we’re actually doing it.

“That’s one of the reasons me and Mercedes (Moné) got super close was because we can relate, ‘Oh my god you were a 10-year-old who was obsessed with wrestling?’ So I have those relationships with a few of the girls in the locker room.”

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Comparing her relationship with Mercedes Mone with her bonds with Carmella and Bianca Belair, who both made their pro-wrestling debuts in WWE, Bayley continued:

“I think Carmella was the one who changed my mind on ‘you don’t need to be obsessed with it like I am to enjoy working with you or being in the locker room with you’.

“Some people truly fall in love with it like Bianca, she truly fell in love with this. And her and I get along great, we’re great friends. So you don’t have to grow up obsessed with it to be great or for me to have a great relationship with you, but I do find that it’s like another level.

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Commenting further on obsession, Bayley concluded:

“I also have this conversation with Cody all the time, we just have a sickness level of obsession, although it’s not so much fandom even though being here with you guys is such an honor, and being able to talk with Rey and Randy Orton, Cena and having those relationships with them is such an honor but its two different levels. AJ coming back, it’s like a different level.

“I love that I still feel this way about it and I love that there’s still a fan in me, but also the professionalism and the passion, the whole other side of that, I’m just grateful I still feel all that.

“Sometimes when you’re doing this for a while it becomes such business minded and I hate when people lose that part, because to me that’s what makes it so fun and makes it so worth it is if we still feel that way about it, especially if we grew up like that.”

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