2. Will the Serious Bayley Please Stand Up
At last year’s TakeOver Brooklyn event, Bayley and Sasha banks stole the show with a historical women’s match that saw the underdog Bayley overcome the odds and win the NXT Women’s Championship for the first time.
Fast-forward a year and Bayley is back once again challenging for the title, this time against the champion Asuka. This match is going to have every opportunity to steal the show again. For it to surpass last year’s match though, we are going to need to see a different side of Bayley. The underdog story is over with her. It’s clear at this point that she simply isn’t an underdog, only one of the best women’s wrestlers on the planet today. In this match she needs to act like it.
On NXT TV, Bayley has shown elements of her serious side, which has been great for this feud. On Saturday in Brooklyn, she needs to carry on further down that road. It will give her character and the match added depth and make it different from last year’s title match. If done successfully, Bayley will be who we’re all talking about come Sunday morning.
