Bayley says she has year and a half left on WWE contract

While appearing on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Bayley gave an update on her WWE contract status.

Bayley told Van Vliet that she has a year and a half left on her current WWE contract. When she was younger, Bayley thought she would only be able to wrestle until she was 35. But she’s now reached that age and realizes she can still keep competing. She has not set a timeframe for when she will step away from the ring.

“When I was younger, because women didn’t wrestle as long as we’re doing it now. Like Trish and Lita, if you think about it, they were everyone’s heroes, they were my heroes, and they only did it like, six, seven years with WWE and were only on top for three years or something. So to me, that was always in my head,” Bayley said. “But now you look at Nattie, who’s been here forever. I just wrestled her [on April 11], and just incredible in the ring. Just one of one, and everything that she brings to it, not just in the ring, but her experience, and we really need that in [the] locker room. So I always think that even if I’m not wrestling every week, there’s something that I have that can help the locker room just like she does, just like Naomi does, just like Tamina does. But when I was younger I always said all right, 35 would be my cut off, because, in my opinion, ‘Guys can go forever, but it’s not that cute when you’re a woman and you’re 35.’ But now that I’m 35 I’m just like, ‘Oh we’re all way past that, and we’re still main eventing, we’re still, doing red carpets, we’re still doing all this stuff. People still care about us.’ They still care about us. So that’s kind of changed my mindset.”

Bayley said she’s always dreamed of opening her own wrestling school and wants to do that while she’s still active in WWE. Whenever she does step away, Bayley believes WWE will be in good hands with so many talented women on the rise.

“I have a year and a half left on this current contract, so we’ll see what happens then,” Bayley said. “And then what? Man, I don’t know. I think I’ve done everything I really want to do, not everything. There’s still a lot I want to get done, but done so much with WWE and I’ve been here for already 12 years. And there’s like a huge wave of women coming in that I think are ready to take over and ready to be in those spots.”

Bayley named Lyra Valkyria, Roxanne Perez, and Cora Jade as some of the talented younger women she’s worked with.

“When I think about, ‘Ok, I might be done in a couple of years or, you know, who knows’ I know that it’s going to be in good hands. So that makes me really happy,” she told Van Vliet. “Where like before John Cena always says he couldn’t leave, because who was going to do what he does? Who’s going to take his place? Who’s going to be the one to freaking put asses in seats? Who’s going to be the one that the kids want to see, that the kids idolize to the level that he does? Cody’s doing that. And not saying I’m John Cena of course, but that’s kind of the same mindset. As long as it’s in good hands, the goal was to just leave it in a better place than you found it.”

A Women’s Tag Team title match with Bayley & Valkyria challenging Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez was originally announced for WrestleMania 41, but WWE ran an angle where Bayley was attacked backstage and Valkyria had to find a new partner. The returning Becky Lynch teamed up with Valkyria to win the belts. Their title reign was short-lived, though, with Lynch turning against Valkyria on Raw last night as they dropped the belts back to Morgan & Rodriguez.

Paul “Triple H” Levesque praised Bayley as a “true pro” at the post-WrestleMania 41 press conference. Levesque said Bayley will be just fine despite losing her WrestleMania spot to Lynch.

Van Vliet’s interview with Bayley was recorded prior to the angle where she was taken out of WrestleMania.