Summary

Bayley said she takes her locker room leader and mentor role in WWE seriously as more wrestlers come to her for advice and feedback.

She said that shift became clearer to her over the last few years, and it changed how she watches matches, moving from fan-style viewing to active evaluation.

Bayley also said she shares lessons she learned from Naomi, Natalya, and John Cena, while emphasizing that her guidance comes from passing along knowledge gathered from others.

Bayley leadership role can shape WWE's next wave through shared veteran habits

Bayley saying she now watches matches with coaching intent suggests her influence can extend beyond her own storylines, because she is actively helping wrestlers develop through direct feedback.

Her focus on passing down practical lessons from Naomi, Natalya, and John Cena also points to a mentorship chain that can keep core WWE fundamentals consistent across newer talent.

Quotes

Quote from Bayley

“I don’t take it lightly. It’s hard to feel like that. I feel like it’s come not naturally, obviously. I just started realizing it more within the last few years, where people are coming to me asking for feedback or advice or their opinion on something, and I’m like, ‘Okay, do they actually value what I have to say?’ It’s made me realize when I watch matches now, or if I’m watching my friends have a match, I need to pay attention, not just watch as a fan now. I don’t know everything, and I see things very different than a lot of people. Lyra and I don’t really see eye to eye on some wrestling stuff. It’s just I feel differently about things. I love being able to share what I’ve learned from Naomi about perseverance and about pushing through. I love what I’ve learned from Nattie about the same thing and how to treat people. I love passing on what I’ve learned from Cena with just storytelling, keeping it simple, how we overcomplicate things, and listening. I love being able to share that. It’s not all coming from me. I don’t know. I’ve just gathered all this information. The more that we could share that, and then they could pass that along. It just keeps going and going. I love this position.”

Sources

As reported by Fightful.