10 WWE Superfans That Actually Made It

2. Bayley

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As covered extensively in her programme with Charlotte and previous WWE Network features, part of Bayley's unending desire to be a WWE Superstar is simply due to a lifetime of immersing herself in the product as a fan.

She has spoke at length in podcasts of the long drives with her Father to obscure locations to get pictures and autographs of her favourite superstars, and just recently on Monday Night Raw highlighted how the family would attend shows at all costs to satiate her WWE obsession.

Alongside the photographs, Bayley penned childhood poems about wrestling as her one true passion, and described even as a child her quest to be a WWE Superstar.

Brought into the angle as a disparaging personality trait by Charlotte, Bayley's real-life story has further humanised one of the most relatable characters the company may ever have stumbled upon, and by widening the apparent disparity between Charlotte the 'Queen' and Bayley the 'fan', it's added further depth to a natural rivalry that may extend to the grandiose stage of Wrestlemania 33.

In NXT regular Izzy, Bayley has also spawned her own superfan, and encouraged a level of deeply emotional support from all corners of the audience in a way so rarely achieved in 2017.

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