CM Punk believes there is a strong demand for an AJ Lee WWE return.
During her WWE tenure, Lee won the Divas Championship three times and held the title for 406 days. She left WWE in 2015 and retired due to health issues. While speaking with Peter Rosenberg on Cheap Heat, Punk was asked about Lee’s potential in-ring return.
Punk stated, “She 100% supersedes me. That’s the fun thing about wrestling fans. They look for stuff that necessarily isn’t there. That’s kind of the fun of it. Everyone is talking about, ‘Who is going to main event WrestleMania?’ ‘Who is going to enter the Royal Rumble?’ ‘Who is going to comeback?’ They are always looking around this time of year for big returns. I had mine last year, I think hers would be bigger than mine, but again, I’m kinda hands off on the deal.”
When asked whether Lee had wanted to make a return more now that he’s back in the company rather than when he went to AEW.
“Yeah, I would say it definitely did. It’s more of a workload thing for her. She is very busy. I’m not trying to not talk about it, but I’m also trying to temper people’s expectations. If she wraps up some stuff that she’s working on and she has the time and she feels like dipping her toe back in or jumping back in the pool, she’ll let us know.”
Punk continued, “Her and I are similar in the regard that we’re out of time. You could pluck us both off from where we started and put us in any kind of era. I definitely think she would thrive here. She thrived back then when the focus wasn’t women, and now, this past week, every single television show we had opened with a women’s match and main evented with a women’s match. You can’t tell me she wouldn’t fit in there.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article, please credit Peter Rosenberg on Cheap Hea with an h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
