Aptitude and Steamboat. Okada and Tanahashi. Bayley and Sasha Banks. Some wrestlers are inextricably linked to their greatest rivals.

Bayley took to Instagram to share a tribute to her buddy, former tag staff associate, and longtime rival Sasha Banks, additionally highlighting a shoutout that Bayley gave Banks in a latest match on “WWE Uncooked.” Throughout Bayley’s victory over Aliyah this previous Monday, Bayley tied the younger famous person up within the ropes and drove her knees into her opponent’s mid-section, a signature maneuver of Banks. The video then reveals Banks performing the identical maneuver, adopted by pictures from the pair’s match at “NXT” TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015. 

“Magic is actual 8•22,” Bayley captioned the publish.

Banks has not been seen in WWE since Could when she and Naomi walked out of the corporate over artistic frustrations. They have been the WWE Girls’s Tag Crew Champions on the time of their hasty exit. WWE later declared the titles vacant.

Bayley, who was absent from the corporate on the time of Banks’ departure, returned at SummerSlam, flanked by Dakota Kai & IYO SKY (previously recognized in “NXT” as Io Shirai) in a brand new group that’s rumored to be named “Injury CTRL.” Whereas studies counsel that WWE has been working to restore its relationship with Banks and Naomi, no return has been confirmed, and Bayley’s acerbic model might imply that she’s simply having some enjoyable and saying “hello” to a buddy in her personal distinctive means, quite than teasing a return.

Banks was lately pulled from ads for a celeb soccer recreation, fueling hypothesis that Banks has reached a deal to return to WWE.