Will the long-awaited WWE return of AJ Lee ever occur? Followers are speculating about it as soon as once more forward of the upcoming Evolution 2 PLE.
On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, WWE Vault’s YouTube web page launched an 81-minute montage titled “Story of the rise of AJ Lee (2013-14).” It captures Lee’s rise to prominence in WWE throughout her prime.
Naturally, this despatched followers right into a spiral on-line. Some started questioning if this was setting Lee up for a return, one thing followers have been hoping would occur for years.
Some followers have been burned by all these teases. “WWE posting the rise of AJ Lee on their channel when Evolution is across the nook.. oh I’m not falling for it this time!!!” one fan mentioned on X, previously Twitter.
All of it could possibly be a intelligent ruse. WWE is aware of Lee’s identify is a hot-button subject. Anytime they point out her, followers go wild hoping that she is going to return to the ring. One fan pointed this out, saying, “There’s somebody on WWE’s social [media] group who will get a kick out of watching us lose our collective crap over any AJ Lee point out.”
Will AJ Lee return to WWE after 10 years away?
Something is feasible, as Lee’s husband, CM Punk, confirmed when he got here again to WWE in 2023. Nonetheless, there isn’t a indication that Lee is ever going to get again within the ring.
If anybody can do it, it could should be Cora Jade or Roxanne Perez. The previous believed that she or Perez might persuade Lee to get out of retirement. Nonetheless, that has but to occur.
WWE Vault’s video about Lee might simply be a strategy to construct hype for the upcoming all-women’s Evolution 2 PLE. It’s the second iteration of the PLE, and it’ll pay homage to a number of the nice ladies wrestlers of the previous.
Lee final competed in the course of the March 30, 2015, version of Monday Night time RAW. Her final bout was a six-woman tag group match. Since then, she has turn out to be an writer and in addition joined Ladies of Wrestling (WOW) as an govt producer.
She additionally appeared within the second season of Heels, through which her husband additionally stars. Lee additionally appeared in Michael Angarano’s Sacramento, which he additionally starred in alongside Michael Cera and Kristen Stewart.
