One of the on-screen rivalries in WWE is the beef between WWE veteran Michael Cole and former WWE Women’s Champion Bayley. The Role Model often mocks Cole and talks trash to him at every opportunity she gets on-screen. But what is their relationship like in real life?
During her recent interview with Chris Van Vliet on his Insight Podcast, Bayley shared that Michael Cole is one of the people who helps the women’s division a lot. She revealed that behind the scenes, Cole is someone who is very approachable and he has a very different way of looking at things.
“We’ll be putting stuff together before the show and he’ll be like, ‘Hey Bayley, so I guess I gotta cheer for you tonight because you’re wrestling Liv.’ I’m like, ‘You don’t have to cheer for me, Michael, I don’t care what you do.’ [He goes] ‘Oh, well, screw you then’, and he just flips me off from the chair and I’m in the ring trying to do my work. He’s just so funny, dude, he’s for real, like a mentor to me. He’s somebody that I can go to, he’s been here for so long, and he’s always available. You can’t always get in Hunter’s ear, Michael Hayes is always available, and he has a very different mindset.
“But Cole is there watching everything, watching every girl’s match, watching all the guys’ matches, and he’s been doing it and calling matches forever. So getting his mindset on things is always super helpful and he’s just always rooting for us and he has a different insight on stuff.”
Bayley has learned a lot from Michael Cole
During the same interview, she shared that during a recent episode of Monday Night Raw, before her match against Liv Morgan, she had texted Cole. Michael Cole asked her to come over onto Pat McAfee’s bus and she got to discuss notes with Cole.
“So as much as I give him crap on TV, he’s somebody that even just up until just Monday, I went on Pat’s bus with him. As I was getting ready, I was texting him, ‘Hey, where you at? I’m wrestling Liv, and I just have some notes to give you.’ And he’s like, ‘Hey, I’m on Pat’s bus, come on over.’ I’m like, okay. So I went and sat with him, and Pat and just kind of gave him some notes.
“But he also asked, ‘So what’s going on with this, and what’s going on with that? How can we make this better?’ Because he kind of has an idea of the direction I want to go as a character. So he really is the best, and he really wants the best for everybody, but not everyone uses him as an outlet, but he’s so knowledgeable, and I’ve learned a lot from him,” Bayley said.
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