The girl who was known for her hugs is now a trailblazer in putting professional women's wrestling on the map. Bayley, the 26-year-old NXT Women’s Champion, is changing the way fans and industry veterans view and appreciate female wrestlers.

Her epic, game-changing battles against fellow revolutionary, Sasha Banks, has set the bar high in what a headlining match should be (for both men and women). This Friday at NXT TakeOver: Dallas, two days before WrestleMania 32, the ultimate babyface plans on stealing the show as she faces the tough Asuka. Before the big match, Myspace chatted with Bayley about the big event and being a female wrestler.

You’re headlining another NXT TakeOver event with your match against Asuka. How do you feel going up against such an accomplished, international competitor?

Um, I’m pretty intimidated. [laughs] She’s done so much all over the world and everything she’s done in NXT has just been, she’s going right through the whole roster. So it’s a little intimidating, but I believe in myself with everything that I’ve been through with my matches with Sasha and Nia Jax and everything, that I really have something to prove. I think a lot of the people, a lot of fans, just feel she’s a little too much for me and is easily going to defeat me, but I need to prove that I’m not just a little "hugging machine,’" I can go toe-to-toe with the best in the world.

Having competed in the first ever “women’s iron man match,” are there any other specialty matches you want to compete in, in NXT or on the main-roster, like a cage match?

I wouldn’t mind a cage match but ever since I was a kid I always wanted to be in a tables match. I’m too scared of chairs and scared of ladders and all that, but I think I can handle tables and I’ve always really wanted to do it. I know that Natalya and Beth Phoenix did it awhile ago, and when I saw them do it I was like, "Oh man it is possible," so hopefully one day in the future we can get one of those. Hopefully I can put Sasha Banks through one or something.

As the leader of the NXT women’s locker room and thanks to the movement created by the “Four Horsewomen,” the WWE’s women’s division, in both NXT and the main roster, is the deepest its ever been. Do you think WWE should give the women their own weekly wrestling show?

That’s a great idea. I mean there’s promotions like SHIMMER Women Athletes that I’ve worked with before and that draws views, so I think maybe that would be a great idea and it’s something I’d be interested in. I’m gonna throw it out there and see what they say.

I’ve seen videos of "Baymella" (the nickname for Bayley and Carmella) on road trips singing wrestlers theme songs. When you’re not doing that, what music do you listen to on trips or when you’re traveling city to city?

So it depends who’s driving. If it’s Carmella driving, she’s more like hip-hop, she’s random kinda. She’ll have Wu-Tang Clan then she’ll randomly have The Beatles on, so I’m good with whatever she wants to listen to because since she’s the one driving. But if it’s me, we both share an interest in Passion Pit and Phoenix, so we’ll listen to them or sometimes I’ll just put on Mace Radio and just see what comes on. And I like a lot of Paramore, so sometimes I’ll just play the CD’s and she has to deal with it.

Do you have any guilty musical pleasures?

O-Town. [laughs] Yes, I have loved O-Town since middle school.

If you could headline WrestleMania against anyone, who would it be?

Now that WrestleMania is coming back to Orlando next year, I would say I want WrestleMania 33 to be a fatal-four way, a rematch from one of our last NXT TakeOver’s, with Sasha, Becky and Charlotte and myself. Maybe you could throw Emma and Paige in there as well, we’ll make it a six-way or something like that.

With your fame increasing, do you have any interest in acting or performing outside of the ring? Can we expect you in a WWE Film or on Dancing with the Stars?

Yeah, I don’t know if I’d be very good at it right now, [laughs] but I’d like to try it if they wanted to offer me that. That’s just something else I could say that I was able to do, if I were in a WWE film or that would also help me get better at being so bad at acting. I would definitely want to do that and expand my fan base.

Going back to your day job, which wrestler has influenced your style and had the biggest impact on your career so far?

A lot of when I first started, because he was the trainer when I started was Ricky (The Dragon) Steamboat. Everything that he did was something that I, just the way I wanted to move and the way I wanted to connect with fans. And throughout that time and even till now, Daniel Bryan has been a perfect example of how I would want to be viewed and how I would want to be in the ring and everything about him. When I first got into wrestling it was Macho Man (Randy Savage) and Lita, so a little bit of all four of those. [laughs]

I watched on Breaking Ground when you got your first action-figure. What’s the next dream product you want to have?

I want to be in the video game. Does that count? I need to be in the video game. That’s like one of my biggest goals since I started. First it was a shirt, then an action figure and now I think being in a video game would just top it all off. I could be happy, even if it’s only one year.