AJ Lee Says Working With WWE’s Current Stars Is ‘Very Surreal And Cool’

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WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion AJ Lee has commented on changes which took place between her first and second runs with the company.

With AJ Lee returning to the ring in September 2025 for the first time since March 2015, the landscape of the WWE women’s division has changed.

Lee was one of the wrestlers fighting for change for the women’s division long before the WWE-branded “Women’s Revolution” kicked off in July 2015, and has now commented on the differences between WWE then and WWE now.

Speaking with The Takedown on SI, AJ Lee noted that she had always wanted to leave wrestling better than she found it, stating:

“Whatever you’re an advocate for, or you’re fighting for, it’s always for the next generation. You kind of never think it’s going to be for you, that change.

“You wanna start the change, and it makes the world better for people to come after you. You leave the world better than you found it. And so that was my idea with wrestling.”

AJ Lee went on to state that hearing stories from members of the current WWE women’s roster really reminds her how much she means to people, noting:

“It’s kind of like being at your own funeral a little bit. Everyone has something really nice to say about how I helped them in their career, and it’s just meaningful and very surreal and cool.”

Explaining why she feels like she can enjoy herself more now than she did during her previous stint with the company, AJ Lee said:

“I know who I am. I know what I’ve done. I can walk into this place with a new kind of confidence and a calmness of just being a grown-ass woman.

“There is a different level to performing that way, with that mindset of, yeah, I know what I can do.

“And so it makes it a little bit more fun. I get to really just enjoy and soak up the moments versus feeling like you were scrapping every day back then.”

AJ Lee will defend her WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship against Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 42.

While many fans are predicting that Lynch will finally be victorious over Lee on the Grandest Stage of Them All, we could see Lee earn her first WrestleMania one-on-one victory, after winning the 14-woman Vickie Guerrero Invitational in 2014, and teaming with Paige against the Bella Twins in 2015.

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