WWE: Bayley on Origin of Her Ring Name, John Cena on Vince McMahon Being His Biggest WWE Mentor, CM Punk on Talk With Bray Wyatt After New Nexus Split of “Someday, Me And You Are Gonna Main Event WrestleMania”

Dec 5, 2025

Bayley Comments on Origin of Her Ring Name in WWE

A recent episode of the Six Feet Under with The Undertaker podcast featured Bayley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Bayley’s thoughts about the origin of her ring name in WWE and if it came from the Bay Area as a way of her representing San Fransisco.

“I didn’t choose Bayley. In NXT, you have to give a list of your names. I wanted to use a unisex name because I felt like nobody was really doing that. I gave a list of unisex names. I don’t believe I chose Bayley. I don’t think that was on there. When they gave me my names back, it was a list of three different names. One was Bayley. One was Davia. Not Davina. I was like, ‘That’s not even a name.’ They were trying to get it close to my indie name. Rob Naylor, he was Dusty’s right hand man, I told him, ‘I don’t care for these, can I send in another list?’ He’s like, ‘I’m not supposed to tell you, but they want to put you on TV this week. You need to choose one of these or else you have to wait.’ ‘Okay, I’ll do Bayley.’ It was spelled BAI and I said, ‘Can I do BAY because I’m from the Bay Area?’ Lyra (Valkyria) makes fun of me. I don’t know why she thinks it’s so funny.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

John Cena Comments on Vince McMahon Being His Biggest WWE Mentor

A recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast featured John Cena as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Cena’s thoughts about Vince McMahon being his biggest mentor when he was starting out his wrestling career in WWE.

“Vince, without a doubt. He was just really kind with his time. He would explain things. Here is a person making a lot of, if not all, the choices. I am always in search for a good explanation — and he would always give one. And in giving the good explanation, you would get a nugget. And because Vince had such fluency in every avenue of the business, a lot of performers are worried about the stunts. I think one of the benefits of doing 220 shows a year is pace. And if you obsess over the physical aspect of the business, you might get exhausted. You might burn out. I love the technical aspect, but then I also became obsessed with the theatrical aspect.
And then I also became obsessed… I became interested in the business. And not my business, [not] like, ‘How can I take from this place to make as much as I can?’ The business. How do we get more people in the arena? And the only person it seemed like that had a good explanation for a lot of those questions was Vince. And that allowed just a wealth of information to be dumped on me.
I had full faith and trust in him. I think he had full faith and trust in me. He wasn’t afraid to try, which is another thing I learned from him. Like, do not be afraid to swing big. And do not be afraid to fail. Be accountable for your failures.”

Cena also gave his thoughts about if WWE could ever survive and thrive without McMahon following McMahon’s second resignation from the company after Janel Grant’s sex trafficking and abuse lawsuit against him.

“Of all the things he did and of all the things he taught me, one piece that was very important is that no one is irreplaceable.And that’s the truth. The one thing that needs to stand firm is the consumer’s belief in what we do. And Vince has so much knowledge.
I think what’s happened is unfortunate because you have this individual with so much depth of field who can still offer things, and we no longer can pull from that well, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have able-bodied folks who can’t put on creative programming.
I never wanted Vince to go, because I love him and I know how much he loves the business. But he taught me, like, ‘We’re all going to go.’ All of us. And he taught me that not only through saying, through his actions. I was there the day he fired ‘Stone Cold.’ Missed a date, got to go. His biggest attraction. ‘I got to let people know this isn’t okay.’ So, things happen. ‘We got to let people know this isn’t okay. It’s time for you to go.’ Everybody goes, man. Everybody goes. So, because of his words — yeah. Yeah.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

CM Punk Comments on Talk With Bray Wyatt After New Nexus Split of “Someday, Me And You Are Gonna Main Event WrestleMania”

WWE recently released a new WWE Break It Down video featuring CM Punk. One of the topics discussed included Punk’s thoughts about his time working together with Bray Wyatt, then known as Husky Harris, as part of the New Nexus faction and his talk with Wyatt after he learned that Wyatt was being sent back to developmental.

“What’s funny about this is shortly after the formation of this, we broke up and I remember a conversation. I was upset for Bray because he was being sent back down to developmental. He was in high spirits and he said, ‘Don’t worry man, I’m gonna go back down there, I’m gonna figure myself out and I’m gonna come back up here and someday, me and you are gonna main event WrestleMania.’ I thought that was really cool.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com