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JWeinCom on 06 September 2025
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PAOerfulone said:

How many people on the roster do you think grew up watching and idolizing this woman? AJ Lee is to them what Trish/Lita/Chyna was for many of us. And there's a video WWE just posted of her signing her new contract, so this may not just be a one off.
She's going to have a nostalgia run for the records.

That's one of the great things about wrestling. It's not like Michael Jordan is going to come back to the Bulls in game seven of the finals. But in wrestling, that kind of thing can happen in wrestling. 

BasilZero said:

Wasnt one of the reasons (alongside with what happened to CM Punk) she left because of her neck?

I wonder if they'll play it safe like what they did with Steve Austin couple or so years ago with KO.

Edit: Just saw the video, since I missed watching it last night lol 

Damn she looks in great shape! 

Yes, that was the official stated reason. But of course, we've seen lots of people come up back from supposedly career ending injuries. Edge/Cope, Danielson, Shawn Michaels (although that one is a bit dodgy imho), Paige, Christian, and Austin... sort of. 

I kind of expect that this is a bit of a different situation than Austin. Austin was closer to 60 than 50 at that point, so even without the injury history, so even if he had not had the injury history, it would have still taken a lot of smoke and mirrors to make his match work. I get the feeling AJ Lee's comeback will be more akin to Edge's WWE run. I think she'll be an active wrestler but kind of a special attraction.

But even if she never wrestles again, I'm still hyped. Her success was more due to her character than her ring work, and she can definitely contribute in a non-wrestling role.

So, what are your top 3 or however many you want to list returns?

For me Bray Wyatt's is especially memorable because I was there. But in hindsight it's kind of more sad than anything.

CM Punk's returns were both great. I probably prefer the WWE one because that's the promotion I watch regularly and it was something that felt impossible instead of merely unlikely. 

Daniel Bryan's was great because he just seems to genuinely love wrestling so much. It was hard not to be happy for him to be able to do what he loved doing.