On-screen, they have been fierce enemies. Additionally they made historical past as the primary ever WWE Ladies’s Tag Workforce Champions. No matter their standing on tv, although, Mercedes Mone and Bayley have all the time maintained a supportive friendship behind-the-scenes. In a latest version of the “Mone Magazine” publication, Mone opened up about their friendship, which started over a decade in the past.
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“From the second I met Bayley, we had an immediate connection,” Mone wrote. “I KNEW she was similar to me. We cherished wrestling in the identical real method and have become greatest associates immediately. I feel she is my biggest opponent of all time as a result of we’re greatest associates. Once I get to attempt the strikes that I’ve needed to attempt, Bayley will get it. Her love, ardour, and drive for wrestling, like mine, has us making an attempt to deliver out the most effective in each other.
“We each additionally need the identical for girls’s wrestling. I by no means felt a draw back to wrestling her, both. If we did not like how one thing went in a match, we might focus on it and attempt to repair it for the subsequent one. As well as, I all the time knew I might be protected within the ring together with her and t we might be artistic in placing our match collectively.”
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Whereas Mone and Bayley first got here collectively beneath the banner of WWE, they now reside in separate corporations. Bayley stays an everyday fixture on the “WWE SmackDown” model after shedding the WWE Ladies’s Championship at this yr’s WWE SummerSlam occasion. Mone, alternatively, has shredded her Sasha Banks ring title and develop into a twin champion with the NJPW STRONG Ladies’s and AEW TBS Championships sitting on her shoulders.
