AJ Lee Reveals Her Reaction To CM Punk’s Return In AEW

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Former WWE star AJ Lee revealed her reaction to her husband CM Punk returning to wrestling in AEW.

CM Punk returned to the business last August and signed with All Elite Wrestling. Around the same time, his wife AJ Lee started working with WOW: Women of Wrestling as an executive producer and commentator.

Appearing on The Sessions with Renee Paquette, the former Divas Champion discussed Punk’s return and if it sparked anything in her to return to wrestling.

Lee said:

“The conversation was a conversation that was way longer than people knew, with many things happening in the universe. There were many options. It was a very long time of, ‘what’s the right route? What’s the safest route? What does it look like?’ It was something I was scared of, just seeing what would emotionally happen. That was more or less for his stuff. To me, I retired and I retired.”

“I always say, ‘never say never, but don’t hold your breath’ and everyone holds on to the ‘never say never.’ [laughing] Don’t hold your breath, you’re going to die. I just wanted him to be emotionally safe and protected. That’s been the coolest thing about his experience. It feels like he’s always in a safe space and has a good group of people around him in AEW, that makes me very happy. There was a lot of ‘Let’s go!’ To me, that didn’t spark anything in me, but the combination of wrestling and writing, wrestling and producing, that was more comfortable and more exciting because it was a challenge.

“I always felt great about the timing of when I retired. You never want to be the last girl at the party, you want to go out on top. Everything felt so perfect and tied up in a bow. I know his experience is different. To me, I didn’t want him, or me with WOW, anything to feel like you were the person going back to hang out with high school kids. I was hoping it wasn’t that and it seems to not be.”

WOW has taped future episodes to be released, but no premiere date has been announced as of yet.

CM Punk defeated Hangman Adam Page to win the AEW World Championship at Double Or Nothing last weekend. He is set to face NJPW’s Hiroshi Tanahashi at the Forbidden Door event on June 26.

For the full results of Double Or Nothing, click here.

Quotes via Fightful

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