{"id":123840,"date":"2024-04-07T21:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=123840"},"modified":"2024-04-07T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:42:48","slug":"andnew-bayley-wwe-womens-champion-wrestlemania-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/04\/07\/andnew-bayley-wwe-womens-champion-wrestlemania-xl\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Bayley Become WWE Women&#8217;s Champion at WrestleMania XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After feeling like the world was against her,\u00a0<strong>Bayley<\/strong> achieves vindication by defeating her old\u00a0<strong>Damage CTRL<\/strong> running mate\u00a0<strong>IYO SKY<\/strong> for the\u00a0<strong>WWE\u00a0<\/strong>Women&#8217;s Championship at\u00a0<em><strong>WrestleMania XL<\/strong><\/em>. Here&#8217;s a brief recap of how the new champion got to this point.<\/p>\n<h3>Catalyst for Change<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03chZoerLVQ?si=fpebF4ZOuNuoFw03\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bayley formed Damage CTRL in an effort to revolutionize the WWE Women&#8217;s Division. The faction ran over the whole roster, scoring a couple of WWE Women&#8217;s Tag Team Title reigns along the way. It seemed like it was them against the world throughout this run<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JAsIuqg2P8I?si=FNUmUR7J5PUOrAAw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the cracks started to show when Bayley secured her <em>WrestleMania XL<\/em> main event at the\u00a0<em><strong>Royal Rumble<\/strong><\/em>. IYO SKY, along with\u00a0<strong>Dakota Kai<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>The Kabuki Warriors<\/strong>, were planning to exile from her own group, plotting for months ahead of her Rumble win.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kg-EfULKk08?si=xO4_V9w9ON5fExIc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What Damage CTRL didn&#8217;t anticipate was Bayley knowing the plan all along, putting a wrench into their whole operation and challenging SKY for her WWE Women&#8217;s Title.<\/p>\n<h3>A Return to Form<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BAYLEY-MANIA!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsBayleyWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@itsBayleyWWE<\/a> is your NEW WWE Women&#8217;s Champion at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestleMania?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WrestleMania<\/a> XL!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AndNew?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AndNew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tpv93Tk85Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tpv93Tk85Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1777148774982242341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bayley saw the error of her ways and vowed to end the reign of Damage CTRL once and for all. Everything went according to Bayley&#8217;s favor, dethroning her once treasured friend to become WWE Women&#8217;s Champion. To the former champion&#8217;s credit, IYO fought to the bitter end.<\/p>\n<p>The match as a whole was a back-and-forth affair, with each competitor pulling out all the stops. However, there can be only one, and Bayley was the one.<\/p>\n<p>Bayley was not gonna let anything get in her way of destroying the very monster she created and cementing her name once again as one of <em>the<\/em> top champions in WWE. This is Bayley&#8217;s fourth reign with the title, including her reigns as <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Raw<\/strong><\/em>, and\u00a0<em><strong>NXT<\/strong><\/em> Champion.<\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Network<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Peacock<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After feeling like the world was against her,\u00a0Bayley achieves vindication by defeating her old\u00a0Damage CTRL running mate\u00a0IYO SKY for the\u00a0WWE\u00a0Women&#8217;s Championship at\u00a0WrestleMania XL. Here&#8217;s a brief recap of how the new champion got to this point. Catalyst for Change Bayley formed Damage CTRL in an effort to revolutionize the WWE Women&#8217;s Division. 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