One former champion desires AJ Lee to return to WWE.
The day after teaming with Paige to defeat The Bella Twins at WrestleMania 31, AJ Lee shockingly introduced her resolution to retire from skilled wrestling. Lee had been coping with again issues previous to her retirement, however many speculated that the choice was additionally associated to her husband CM Punk‘s contentious relationship with WWE on the time.
CM Punk returned to WWE at Survivor Sequence in 2023, and with him again within the fold, followers and stars alike have known as for AJ Lee to observe swimsuit and return to WWE. Punk has made it clear {that a} potential return is Lee’s resolution and that he’s totally supportive of no matter his spouse desires to do.
Talking in a brand new interview with The Wrestling Traditional, WWE Girls’s Tag Group Champion Naomi added her title to the checklist of stars calling for Lee to come back again to the corporate, even joking that she harasses Punk about wanting his spouse to come back again.
“In fact. I be harassing her husband [CM Punk] about that on a regular basis. I instructed him, I stated, ‘You want to inform her I can’t retire till she comes again.’ Lady, it’s essential come on as a result of mama’s again is hurting. I can’t retire till she comes again.”
“We Ravenous, Sis” – Naomi On AJ Lee
Persevering with, Naomi pointed to Lee’s accomplishments in WWE and her assist in making ladies’s wrestling extra distinguished within the firm.
“I’m so for actual, and he or she is aware of it. It’s loopy. For her to be gone over a decade and to nonetheless be missed and to nonetheless be needed so unhealthy, I feel communicate volumes and simply tells you what she did for girls’s wrestling and who she was. So I feel it’d be a deal with, a gift, a reward for all of us, having her come again, even when it’s only a ‘hey and bye,’ a fast little [appearance]. We ravenous, sis [laughs].”
Whereas many followers hoped to see the previous Divas Champion return on the Royal Rumble, CM Punk made it clear that AJ Lee was at house forward of the occasion.
h/t Fightful
