Bayley On Getting Her Ring Name, Which NXT Stars Have Impressed Her, Nickname With Sasha Banks

Source: Talk Is Jericho

Recently on Talk Is Jericho, NXT’s Bayley was a guest on the podcast. Among other things, Bayley discussed how she got her WWE/NXT ring name, who has impressed her from NXT’s Women’s Division, and the nickname she and Sasha Banks had for themselves in FCW.

According to Bayley, who performed as Davina Rose on the independent circuit, WWE would not let her use that name in WWE. Instead, she gave WWE officials a list of names she would like to use for her WWE character and WWE came back with a list of three names from which she could choose.

“I was throwing out [unisex] names like Bobby or Jordan and something like that because I was like, ‘well, I don’t want it to be super girly’ like I don’t want to be Patricia or something. I don’t know if that’s girly… Jennifer! And Bailey was one of them and that was like the last one I wanted. I did not want that name and they gave me three choices. I forgot what the other one was, but one of them was Davia, which was not Davina. I was like, ‘are you guys missing the N?’ [They replied] ‘no, Davia’. That’s not even a name! So I was like, ‘I …

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