Ex-World Champion Teases Blockbuster WWE Return: “I’m Totally Open To It”
A former WWE champion has teased a return 12 years after their retirement.
Kaitlyn signed a developmental contract with WWE in 2010. Later that same year, she won season three of NXT and made her main roster debut.
Over the next four years, the 39-year-old held the Divas Championship for 152 days and had some notable feuds, including one with her real-life best friend, AJ Lee.
In 2014, Kaitlyn left WWE and announced her retirement from wrestling. About four years later, she briefly returned to the company to participate in the 2018 Mae Young Classic tournament. She also made a backstage appearance on the Raw Reunion episode the following year.
Kaitlyn almost made another return in 2022 to participate in the Women’s Royal Rumble, as she revealed on her YouTube channel a few months ago. However, it did not materialize.
I was invited to the Royal Rumble in what year was it? I think like 2022 maybe. And whichever Rumble was in St. Louis. And I was invited as like a potentially like an alternate or something.
So, I went out, and I really wanted to go because there’s [sic] been several times throughout the years since I left WWE that I just went, because they were in the town that I was living in.
Like when they were in, when RAW or SmackDown would come to Miami, I would go down there and see everybody and talk to people that still worked there that I knew.
I was just excited to go to St. Louis and see everybody. It had been a couple [of] years. I think I, so I was on like a backstage segment, but I wasn’t. I didn’t end up, um, participating in the Rumble, but I’m open to it.
Kaitlyn Is Still Open To Making Her WWE Comeback
In a recent interview with the Rewind Recap Relive podcast, Kaitlyn doubled down on being open to making a WWE return, insisting that she has been for a while.
The former Divas Champion recalled being unhappy with her last match in 2014, noting that he return in 2018 was a totally different experience.
I’m totally open to it. I really am—and I’ve been open to it for a while. So in 2018—I left in 2014—and then I came back to do the Mae Young Classic, which was a great experience. That was the first time I got to experience the Performance Center, and I was like, ‘This is amazing.’ The gym, the trainers, all the rings—it was so state-of-the-art.
I had two matches. My first one was kind of—like the woman I was wrestling was very new. We had a good match. But my second match was with Mia Yim, and we had such a sick match. I love her.
My last match before I left in 2014—I did not love that. I felt sick to my stomach. It wasn’t a good situation. I had asked for my release the day before, and they asked me to stay one more day. Then they gave me a last match—I think it was on Main Event or Superstars.
And I took a superkick to the face from Tamina, and it just left a bad taste in my mouth. At that point, I just wanted to get out of there. So going back and having that match again—my second match in the Mae Young Classic—I was like, if I never get in a WWE ring again, this match was enough for me. It felt like the perfect last match, because I loved it so much. [H/T: Ringside News]
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