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WWE star Bayley<\/a> earned the opportunity to challenge AJ Lee for the Women\u2019s Intercontinental Championship earlier this week when she won a gauntlet match on “Monday Night Raw.”<\/p>\n

The match, which will take place on Monday, is nearly 13 years in the making. The last time the two professional wrestlers competed against each other was on Aug. 21, 2013, for the Divas Championship. Lee, a veteran at that point, got the better of Bayley, who was still a newcomer.<\/p>\n

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A lot has changed since then. Lee departed the company in 2015 while Bayley went on to become a four-time women\u2019s champion and two-time women\u2019s tag team champion. Bayley helped shape the WWE women\u2019s division into what it is presently. The Women\u2019s Intercontinental Championship wasn\u2019t even a glimmer in anyone\u2019s eye five years ago let alone 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

Lee returned to WWE<\/a> in September, potentially putting the two wrestling greats on a collision course with each other at some point. With Lee winning the title against Becky Lynch, Bayley was able to solidify her path toward a chance at championship gold.<\/p>\n

“Man, it\u2019s so weird. So weird to think, it\u2019s just like the universe works in mysterious ways,” Bayley told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “I remember 13 years ago, getting that text that I would be wrestling AJ Lee for the divas title and I had just started my character stuff on NXT. I remember that seeming like, \u2018What do you mean? What am I? Why? What? This can\u2019t be possible.\u2019 And that\u2019s sort of what I feel like now, just because nobody thought that AJ was going to come back, let alone there be an intercontinental women\u2019s championship, let alone she\u2019d be the champion or ever.”<\/p>\n

“It just seems like one of those things where she would just come back as a one time, dream match type thing,” she continued. “And even when she did come back, and I\u2019ve told this to her, I was just happy to have her around. We\u2019ve kept in touch these last 10 years and been actual friends outside of the business and just to think that now I get to be in the ring with her, I wasn\u2019t like, \u2018I need to have a match with you,\u2019 because I got my match. I just wanted to have my friend around and the fact that we got to do this now, it just seems right. Now, I\u2019m like, \u2018Of course we\u2019re supposed to have this match together.\u2019<\/p>\n

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“I would love, love, love to win this championship because I have to finish my grand slam role. I gotta get this one. I gotta get to the United States one and I gotta get to WrestleMania<\/a>. So, I have a lot of feelings going into this and I kinda have to put aside the nostalgia feeling of it.”<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s return was a shock to the WWE Universe when she teamed up with her real-life husband, CM Punk, to take on Lynch and Seth Rollins. Still, for many WWE fans, Lee\u2019s return still seems unreal.<\/p>\n

She returned on an episode of “Friday Night SmackDown,” which took place in Chicago<\/a> at the time. Bayley told Fox News Digital she was in the city filming something and heard the rumors that Lee may have been returning.<\/p>\n

Even as best of friends, Bayley said Lee never tipped her hand.<\/p>\n

“She did not say anything to me,” she said. “I had heard rumors. I\u2019m a big believer and I hold a lot of hope for a lot of things that I truly feel and I just so happened to be in Chicago to film something that day for SmackDown and I was like, I\u2019m just going to stick around. I don\u2019t need to go back to my hotel. I\u2019m just going to stick around and yeah, I was right. And I\u2019m so happy that I followed my heart but she was very quiet about it.”<\/p>\n

Soon, the two will meet in a dream match of sorts.<\/p>\n

Bayley and Lee will face off with the Women\u2019s Intercontinental Championship on the line Monday night on RAW. It can be seen on Netflix, starting at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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