Bayley describes how Nia Jax has changed.
WWE released Nia Jax in November 2021. She returned to the company in September 2023, and she has been on a remarkable run ever since. Jax won the Queen of the Ring tournament, and she will challenge Bayley for the WWE Women's Championship at WWE SummerSlam.
Speaking on The Hall of Fame podcast with Booker T and Brad Gilmore, Bayley discussed her upcoming match against Nia Jax.
"This Nia Jax is different. I’ve known Nia for the past ten years, and she’s always been strong, she’s always been dominant. But I think that time away from WWE really got her mind going in a different way, and it’s got her firing on different cylinders. When she came back, it was like there was no time to mess around. She wasn’t gonna just be happy to be here. She was gonna come here, and she was gonna make a change, and she was gonna put people on notice. She was gonna make people notice her because you see fans talk about it, this is her greatest run, and she proved that with the Queen of the Ring. She had some amazing matches, and I know she’s kind of just firing on that momentum. So that is a little nerve-wracking, aside from her strength alone. But I’m on a different level too. I’m different than [when] she’s seen me the last time, and now I have created the longest women’s faction in history. I’ve won Royal Rumble, I’ve done a few things since I’ve come back from injury, and the pandemic era alone, I think I was able to grow so much. So she needs to realize, I know she won Queen of the Ring, but I’ve also changed so much and I’ve also grown so much. So my experience I think is what I’m gonna have to put up against someone like her," Bayley said.
During the interview, Bayley commented on WWE potentially adding another title to the women's division. Click here to see what she had to say.
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