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Bayley’s WWE future was covered on the post-AEW Dynamite edition of Wrestling Observer Radio.
Our own Dave Meltzer noted on the show that the only thing he has been told about Bayley’s situation is that she has “a big decision to make.”
Meltzer: “The only thing that I was told is that she has a big decision to make.”
Alvarez: “Well, that tells you everything you need to know then. Her deal’s coming up.”
Meltzer: “Well, it’s not coming up for months, but I mean, again, I watched that show on Saturday and watching that show, I thought it was a blowoff. The stuff that Lyra Valkyria has said since makes it sound like a blowoff. Maybe she’s gonna come back in two weeks and attack Lyra and keep the thing going.“
Meltzer and Alvarez then compared Bayley’s situation to Ricochet’s, who was written off of WWE programming in June 2024 after an attack from Bron Breakker.
Meltzer: “With Ricochet, he had not signed his new deal, and when he kept not signing his deal, they started assuming he was gone. There were even stories out that he was gone before he decided he was gone. But he was leaning toward being gone, and in the end he was gone. But if you remember that last angle that they did with him, it was done in a way where, if he signed his contract, it was gonna lead to a return based on that angle.”
Alvarez: “I think this is the exact same thing. If (Bayley) ends up re-signing, then there’s a built-in angle with Lyra. And if she doesn’t re-sign, Lyra destroyed her and sent her out of the company. So I think that’s exactly what’s going on.”
Bayley first signed with WWE in December 2012 and debuted on NXT programming in early 2013.
During her 13-and-a-half years with the company, she has become a two-time WWE Women’s Champion, a two-time SmackDown Women’s Champion, a one-time NXT Women’s Champion and a two-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion alongside Mercedes Moné, then known as Sasha Banks.
She won the women’s Money in the Bank ladder match in 2019 and the women’s Royal Rumble in 2024.
Bayley was also voted Most Improved in the 2015 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards and Women’s Wrestling MVP in the 2020 awards.
The full July 22 edition of Wrestling Observer Radio is available here for subscribers.
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