Summary

Lyra Valkyria spoke warmly about Bayley while looking ahead to WrestleMania 42, reflecting on how Bayley handled last year's sudden change in plans without showing any bitterness.

Bayley and Valkyria had been scheduled to challenge Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez for the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles at WrestleMania 41. Instead, Bayley was attacked the day before the show and removed from the match, with Becky Lynch stepping in before later revealing she had been the attacker.

Now Bayley is back in the WrestleMania mix, with she and Valkyria set for a four-team WWE Women's Tag Team Title match. That bout comes after Bayley and Lyra Valkyria were also booked for a SmackDown tag match against Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair as the WrestleMania build continued.

Quote from Lyra Valkyria

Valkyria said Bayley's support stood out even more because of everything that happened around WrestleMania 41.

"She was just so supportive of me at that time, and she's done so much. You really don't know the value that Bayley has. Everyone knows she's a Grand Slam champion. Everyone knows how she is with the fans, she has such a great rapport with everyone publicly, but that doesn't begin to scrape the surface of what she actually does for the people in the back."

Valkyria later went on to say:

"It's never to get anything back. She really is the most pure person that I've ever met. Even outside of work, she really makes me want to be better as a human being. I felt very guilty last year, even though it was outside both of our control. But looking at how she handled that and how it would've been so easy for her to feel bitter towards me, there was just not an ounce of it. Anytime anything like that happens, she's always still so positive, so encouraging and so helpful to everyone around her."

Bayley and Lyra Valkyria heading back into the title picture

Bayley's return to a WrestleMania tag title match immediately restores the partnership that was interrupted a year ago, and that gives their team a ready-made emotional thread going into WrestleMania 42. Valkyria's comments also underline how Bayley is still positioned as an important locker room figure, which adds extra weight to any major match or storyline involving her on the WWE women's side.

Sources

Lyra Valkyria while speaking with Rick Ucchino of Sports Illustrated