There is concern that Damage CTRL is on-track to collapse, just as Bayley and Bank’s former partnership did. Bayley went on the defensive, and pulled back the curtain to list examples of how she leads Damage CTRL.

“They don’t know how we are in the backstage area. They don’t know that, like, we eat lunch and catering together every day,” Bayley explained. “They don’t know that I carry their bags and give them rides wherever they want. They appreciate those things, alright? It’s fine. And I’m still their leader — you heard on ‘SmackDown,’ they call me their leader. So we’re in good hands.”

Bayley refocused herself onto Aldis, and began to criticize Aldis for his overall inexperience with the general manager position, and the social environment of the “SmackDown” locker room. “The Role Model” even used Aldis’ marriage to former WWE talent and industry icon Mickie James as fuel for her tirade.

“[Nick Aldis is] new to the game. He’s new on this show. Get out of here,” Bayley retorted. “Yeah, better make sure that I don’t go tell his wife on him!”

Bayley is currently slated to compete in the 2024 women’s Royal Rumble match. Bayley has claimed several times that if she were to win, she will set her sights on Rhea Ripley and the WWE Women’s World Championship, and not on her stablemate IYO SKY and the WWE Women’s Championship.