CM Punk Offers More Insight Into AJ Lee’s Return, ‘For Me, It Was Perfect’

AJ Lee returned to WWE TV on the September 5th episode of WWE SmackDown, her first appearance in WWE in over a decade.

AJ was brought back to be part of the feud between CM Punk and Seth Rollins, who had recently been joined in the battle by his wife Becky Lynch.

“It’s not often that I say nights that happen in this business are perfect, but for me is was. You’d have to ask her, her opinion on it. For me, it was perfect. It needed to happen in Chicago. Luckily, it was right on the calendar; there it was. Perfect. I do not say that often,” Punk said on ESPN about AJ’s return.

Asked if he thought AJ returning would never happen, Punk replied, “I think it would have been a hard no. I never bothered her about it. I never asked her. We never watched wrestling, we didn’t talk about it. The ball was always going to be in her court, it just needed to be a conversation. Timing was super important. Timing, in this business, is everything. She’s so busy with everything else, that’s one of the bigger reasons why I just assumed, ‘Ten years, it’s long gone,’ and she has so many irons in so many different fires with production companies, so many different scripts, re-writes, doing her own acting. I just figured she was too busy and it would never happen. I guess timing is everything.

“One day she asked me, ‘I’m so busy doing stuff, but I have this time coming up. If I were to come back, what would you do? Talk to me. Book it.’ That’s what I do. My brain never shuts off and I said, ‘I would do this, this, and this.’ ‘That’d be fun. That sounds cool.’ The fact that she didn’t say no right away and wasn’t turned off by it, there was a hint of a spark.”

Punk and AJ will team against Rollins and Lynch at WWE Wrestlepalooza.

Fans can find more coverage of AJ’s return here.

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