Report Details Previous WWE Attempts To Bring Back AJ Lee

WWE has previously tried to bring back AJ Lee.

According to several new reports, AJ Lee will step into a WWE ring for the first time in a decade at Wrestlepalooza to resume her wrestling career. Lee initially retired back in March 2015, citing injury concerns. Her husband, CM Punk, had acrimoniously left the company a year earlier.

Fans have been pushing for Lee to return for several years, and those calls only got louder when Punk made his own remarkable comeback at Survivor Series 2023.

Interestingly, it seems those calls were heard loud and clear by the company.

WWE Wanted AJ Lee Back After CM Punk Return

As reported via Wrestle Votes Radio, WWE has previously tried to get Lee back on television following CM Punk’s return to the company in late 2023. As suspected, WWE is looking to use her impending comeback as a way of generating buzz for its new deal with ESPN.

We are also told this isn’t the first time WWE has tried to bring her in since CM Punk returned in November of 2023, but this is the first time the company has pushed for it in such a big way, as they feel like her return can generate significant buzz heading into the ESPN debut…

This is the first time they’ve really pushed her to come back to make a decision that they wanted to hear the yes word, and they got it. So she’s on her way back.”

Again, while there’s been no official confirmation, it’s been reported that AJ Lee could make her WWE comeback on the September 5 edition of SmackDown. CM Punk has already been confirmed for the show in Chicago.

In addition, it’s been claimed that the taping could be John Cena’s last appearance on SmackDown as he moves closer to retirement.

H/t to WrestlingNews.Co