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#3. Pushing through an injury changed her career trajectory
Many athletes point to a "bum knee" as the reason why they didn't make it as far as they had hoped. With Bayley, it's the other way around. An injured knee actually helped her career.
She told Lilian Garcia,
"I hyperextended my knee really bad in training. I jumped off the top rope...and when I came down my knee was straight. It wasn't bent...I buckled over and I was out for a few weeks. There was this girl I wanted to wrestle. Her name was MsChif. I was like, 'I have to do this match. I don't care if my knee hurts. I'll work around it. I just have to work with her because I don't think I'll ever get this chance.'"
Bayley pushed herself through the injury and made the six-hour drive to Los Angeles to compete against MsChif. It just so happens that WWE talent scouts were in the audience and liked what they saw in the courageous Bayley.
The SmackDown Women's Champion added,
"If I didn't suck it up and wrestle with a bum knee that I probably wouldn't have this try out."
Bayley tried out for the company while still injured and made such an impression with her passion, gutsiness, wrestling acumen, and in-ring ability that the company immediately signed her to a developmental deal.
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