5 former WWE opponents who are real-life best friends

#1 Bayley and Carmella

The friendship between Bayley and Sasha Banks has been an integral part of both women’s WWE careers ever since their famous match at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn in August 2015.

However, die-hard WWE fans may remember that the real-life friendship between Bayley and Carmella, aka Baymella, was featured on an episode of ‘Breaking Ground’ on the WWE Network before they made their way to the Raw and SmackDown Live rosters.

Speaking in a conference call before SummerSlam 2018, Carmella said she still regularly talks to Bayley but, at the time, their schedules made it difficult to see each other.

“Bayley’s my best friend. For sure, yeah. We’ve been friends since NXT and it sucks cause she’s on Raw and I’m on SmackDown but we still talk every single day and she’s one of my really good friends.”

The only televised one-on-one match between the two women came in January 2016 when Bayley successfully defended her NXT Women’s Championship against Carmella on an episode of NXT.

Since then, they have faced off in multi-women Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, and Money In The Bank matches but they are yet to cross paths in a meaningful rivalry on Raw or SmackDown Live.

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