WWE RAW Notes: Bayley Makes Return & Brings Back Hugger Persona, Bayley Still Hears Voices in Her Head, Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes for Undisputed WWE Title Set for Wrestlepalooza, Cody Rhodes Appearance Set for 9/19 SmackDown Show

Sep 15, 2025

Bayley Makes Return & Brings Back Hugger Persona, Bayley Still Hears Voices in Her Head

Monday’s WWE RAW show at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts featured Bayley making her surprise return to RAW.

Following Lyra Valkyria’s victory over Roxanne Perez in a singles match, Raquel Rodriguez came out and attacked Valkyria to cut short her celebration. This led to Rodriguez and Perez attacking Valkyria until Bayley’s music played and she ran out to the ring. Bayley proceeded to lay out the Judgement Day duo and cleared them out of the ring.

BAYLEY IS BACK! BAYLEY IS BACK! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/mfrjiVL7ZI
— WWE (@WWE) September 15, 2025

As Valkyria looked on puzzled over Bayley showing up, Bayley’s demeanor suddenly changed and she grabbed her head as if she was hearing voices again before going back to normal. A very happy Bayley then proceeded to get out of the ring and gave everyone hugs that she could get her hands on, including Joe Tessitore, Corey Graves, RAW ring announcer Alicia Taylor, the referee, a few fans at ringside, and a security guard before running to the back.

BAYLEY'S HUGGING EVERYBODY!!!!

We missed THIS Bayley! ☺️ pic.twitter.com/587APOuUX8
— WWE (@WWE) September 15, 2025

In a follow-up segment, Valkyria was seen walking backstage and started hearing a commotion coming from Bayley’s locker room. This was Bayley loudly arguing with herself before a loud slamming sound was heard. A concerned Valkyria opened the door and walked in only to see Bayley seated on the couch being all calm and normal. Valkyria asked Bayley who she was talking to leading to Bayley responding with a “huh?” Valkyria then thanked Bayley for helping her against Judgement Day only for Bayley’s mood to suddenly change and berated her for showing up and talked about how she could have been changing her clothes.

Is this the same Bayley that was hugging everybody earlier? 👀 pic.twitter.com/q8XveGDe9v
— WWE (@WWE) September 16, 2025

Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes for Undisputed WWE Title Set for Wrestlepalooz

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured one new match announced for the card of Wrestlepalooza, which takes place on September 20th at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

This new match announced was an Undisputed WWE Championship match of Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes (c).

This new match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over McIntyre and Rhodes’ bad blood issues with each other and Rhodes issuing a challenge to McIntyre at last week’s SmackDown show. During tonight’s show, this match was made official during the card rundown segment for Wrestlepalooza.

WRESTLEPALOOZA is going to be 🔥

Stream ESPN’s inaugural Premium Live Event THIS SATURDAY at 7PM ET on the ESPN app! https://t.co/kzS0cxoAzD pic.twitter.com/mrcVwsfHAb
— WWE (@WWE) September 16, 2025

Current card for WWE Wrestlepalooza:

Undisputed WWE Championship – Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes (c)
Vacant WWE Women’s World Championship – Stephanie Vaquer vs. IYO SKY
The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) vs. “Big” Bronson Reed & Bron Breakker
Mixed Tag Team match – Becky Lynch & Seth Rollins vs. AJ Lee & CM Punk
John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar

Current Card for This Week’s WWE SmackDown Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured one new segment announced for the card of this week’s WWE SmackDown show on September 19th at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.

This new segment announced was Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes to make an appearance on the show.

Current card for September 19th WWE SmackDown show:

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes to appear