In late 2021, Lita said on her Twitch channel that she was open to signing with AEW and it was reported earlier this month the WWE Hall Of Famer was in talks for a major run in AEW.
Obviously, a deal was not worked out as she is slated to work the upcoming women’s Royal Rumble match this coming Saturday night. This will be her second Rumble appearance as she previously worked the bout in 2019.
During an appearance on Sirius XM’s Throwing Down with Renee Paquette and Miesha Tate, Lita said she had other opportunities before WWE came calling.
This is somewhat similar to Edge, who was forced to retire due to neck problems, but when he got an offer from AEW and went to Vince McMahon about it, Edge was brought back by WWE.
“Yeah, so definitely, like you said [Lita wanting to get one more run in], so pandemic life kind of simplified everyone’s priorities because it’s just like only what’s in front of your plate but then — so I feel like I spent the first half of the pandemic just being like — just eating too much junk and processed food and doing absolutely nothing. I’m going, ‘Okay, so like even if the pandemic ends, you can’t just slowly kill yourself just laying around and eating junk food’ so I had already just started to like lifestyle train which is very different from like G.I. Jane training but I was like, I’m already starting to kind of remember what it felt like to, ‘Oh, it feels good when you move your body.
It feels good when you push yourself’ and I think those kind of was — it was a very baby step that culminated with — you know, and there were like potential opportunities floating around that I was like, ‘Well, maybe, maybe, maybe’ and then this thing was just like, ‘Yes or no, do you want to do this Rumble on this day? Like yes or no? Are you in?’ And I was just like — put my feet to the fire. I was like, ‘Yes, I’m in’ and then it was like, okay, so now that I’m in, it’s time to make the most of it.”
H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription
