Asuka wants WWE star Bayley to stop accepting the disrespect
WWE star Asuka comes to Bayley’s aid following her recent comments.
Recently, Bayley had opened up on the Six Feet Under podcast about her omission from WrestleMania 41 before calling it a “rough situation”. Shortly after, one of her storyline rivals and real-life friends, Asuka addressed the incident and spoke on her behalf. The Women’s tag-team champion opened up and asked Bayley to stop accepting the disrespect.
“An interview with Bayley came up on my X feed. I just found out about her sadness, her struggle, and her pain. And it hit me. I remembered,” she noted. “The format of today’s women’s division – the value everyone treats as standard – that was built by the Four Horsewomen and by me.”
“We’ve got pride. Of course we do. And right now, the ones who can understand Bayley’s pain the most are probably Charlotte, Becky and me. Our era didn’t just raise the level. We flipped the entire idea of what a women’s division could be. We started a revolution.”
Further speaking on her YouTube channel KanaChan TV, Asuka said,
“Bayley, when you and I first met, you were the NXT Champion, and I was the challenger. And I took the title from you and I carried NXT on my back. Then you went to the main roster, and you became one of the pillars there too. After that, I arrived. We fought at the top. We survived at the top. We became the standard of the company. We are not just wrestlers. We are an era. We changed the division.”
“You’re accepting treatment that doesn’t match what you are. Don’t swallow it. This isn’t only your problem. It’s an insult to our pride – the pride of everyone who fought beside you and against you. It’s an insult to the status we built with our own hands.”
2025 has been a rough year for Bayley, with the former champion missing out on being a part of both WrestleMania 41 and SummerSlam.
Asuka wants Bayley to demand the respect she deserves
Also in the video, Asuka discussed how Bayley now needs to demand the respect and treatment she deserves from promotion. Asking her to not ‘play nice’, Asuka claimed,
“As someone who has shared that time with you, I can’t accept it. Bayley. Stop playing nice. Look at Kairi. Playing nice is boring. Playing safe is boring. Go off! Shout it. ‘Do you know who I am? I’m Bayley!’ Make them remember what you’ve done – what we’ve done. We changed this division. We made it.”
The Japanese wrestling veteran now wants Bayley to remind everyone of what she is capable of and the hardships they undertook to elevate the division.
“So remind them. Loudly. All of them. Get louder. Get sharper. Let that fire show in the ring. And make them feel it. The weight we built with our lives. The pain we paid to make this division what it is. Right now. Make them remember.”
Bayley is now involved in a tag-team championship feud alongside Lyra Valkyria against The Kabuki Warriors.
