During her appearance on Busted Open Radio, Jacy Jayne spoke about her breakthrough moment from last week’s NXT. The main event angle saw Toxic Attraction disintegrate, with Jayne turning against Gigi Dolin. This split had been brewing for several weeks and finally came to fruition after Jayne and Dolin failed to dethrone Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women’s Championship in a three-way match at NXT Vengeance Day.
When asked if she felt like she was receiving more recognition and if people were beginning to grasp her perspective, Jayne shared her thoughts on the matter.
I think recently I’ve been starting to get more credit for everything, especially honestly after Mandy [Rose] left. Like, as sad as that whole situation was — and we tried to make the most of it going forward — I feel like that kind of helped me break out of this Toxic Attraction shell. Now people were paying attention to me more and listening to what I had to say. I do think it’s been — I haven’t gotten a lot of credit while we were all together. But now I’m starting to show my character and how much I’ve grown over the last year and a half, two years. I think this was honestly my breakout moment. Even at Vengeance Day, it was kind of sink or swim for us. Like, ‘Now you’re on your own. You have to prove that you can do it by yourself.’ So I went into that match with that mind frame. Like, ‘You need to kill this performance because if not you don’t know what’s going to happen going forward.’
In a sequence reminiscent of The Rockers’ separation, Jayne viciously hurled Dolin into a door as a sign of betrayal. During an interview with Busted Open Radio, Jayne revealed that she sought Shawn Michaels’ approval to “rewrite some history” through this angle.
So I actually didn’t really know much going into that day. They were kind of very hush-hush about everything happening. All I really knew was I was going to be on ‘Ding Dong, Hello!’ So that’s a lot of pressure having Bayley come back. It was the first time she even had that show in — I think — like two years. It was also the first time it was ever in front of a live audience because that was always done during the pandemic era. So I feel like there was a lot of pressure going into that alone.
And then kind of getting Shawn’s blessing to redo some history there. That’s a big deal for me. I didn’t want to mess it up. I didn’t want to screw up. I wanted to make a memory. I think everybody knew Toxic Attraction was going to explode soon. But to make it memorable, we had to go big. So we wanted it to be vicious. We wanted it to be memorable. We wanted people to talk about it. Not just something like, ‘Oh, that was a good segment. Yeah, whatever. Now they’re by themselves.’ Like, no, we want people to remember this and be like, ‘Oh, this is a new coming for two new superstars on a solo route.’
Tonight on NXT, Jayne will elucidate her actions as WWE explores the aftermath of Toxic Attraction’s split.
