Bayley On WrestleMania, Damage CTRL, Life After Wrestling, Mercedes Moné

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Bayley (@itsBayleyWWE) is a professional wrestler currently signed to WWE. She sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Las Vegas to discuss getting started with WWE and developing her Hugger persona, destroying the Bayley Buddies as part of her heel turn and if they might return, the injury that happened during the pandemic, the original plan for Damage CTRL, fans not liking her finisher, being left off the WrestleMania 40 press conference, her relationship with Michael Cole, life after wrestling and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:19.3	Welcome back to another one here on Inside. I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet. Thank you for being with us on this one.
0:29.1	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet. Hit a crossbody on that follow button on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
0:40.3	And don't forget to leave a big five star frog splash of a rating if you are listening on Spotify.
0:47.5	What a WrestleMania weekend.
0:49.7	Wow.
0:50.4	Night one, night two, we will talk about the good and the not so good and everything in
0:57.1	between on Fridays, Ask CVV episodes. So if you've got a question for the Jerry Rice edition,
1:04.0	number 80 on Friday, leave a comment on Spotify or send it in using the hashtag Ask CVV on social media.
1:13.6	But today, we've got a conversation that has been in the making for a long time.
1:18.9	Bailey is on the show for the first time ever.
1:22.9	And when you look at her career in WWE, she's done it all.
1:26.3	The first ever women's Grand Slam champion,
1:28.6	Royal Rumble winner, Money in the Bank winner, the longest reigning Smackdown women's
1:33.3	champion of all time. She's a first ballot hallfamer. There's no question about that. And it was
1:40.2	great to dive into her story and also to see how her approach to wrestling and just the business as a whole has changed since she debuted.
1:49.8	To snap a screenshot, tag us. Let us know that you're listening. She is at It's Me Bailey on Instagram.
1:56.9	She's at It's Bailey WWE on Twitter slash X.
2:02.5	Tag me.
2:03.3	I'm at Chris Van Vleet
2:04.9	and here we go.
2:05.9	Let's dive into this one.
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