Speaker 1: Hey, y'all. I know it's different, it's Friday night, but
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Speaker 1: This is Ella j and we are here to discuss
Speaker 1: the amazing thing that we just witnessed on SmackDown. And
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Speaker 1: We're just making all kinds of history here in the
Speaker 1: fifth year of a hearty wrestling podcast. Y'all. Aj Lee
Speaker 1: is back. Aj Lee is back. Aj Lee is back.
Speaker 1: There are no other words to describe what just happened.
Speaker 1: Aj Lee, the second longest reigning Devis Champion, the New
Speaker 1: York Times best selling author, executive producer, comic book writer,
Speaker 1: mental health advocate, color commentator for WOW Superheroes, and just
Speaker 1: all around hero to many women, is back in WWE
Speaker 1: after so long.
Speaker 2: It feels like a fet sentence. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: lie like I was telling you off. Their put this
Speaker 2: literally on my list of things I never thought i'd see,
Speaker 2: Like even when there was rumors, I still had my doubts.
Speaker 2: I'm like, spen ten years, like could it really? But
Speaker 2: then again, her husband was also gone for nearly ten years,
Speaker 2: so it only makes sense that she come back alongside him.
Speaker 1: Ella, I am just speechless because it's just it's so funny,
Speaker 1: because I feel like the journey that we've been on
Speaker 1: this entire year has been the universe, the ww universe
Speaker 1: collectively willing her to come back. Yeah, all year, all year,
Speaker 1: from the Royal Rumble on to even through Evolution, and
Speaker 1: now at this point we've been willing for her to
Speaker 1: come back, and even willing for her to come back
Speaker 1: even before then. So the idea of her actually being
Speaker 1: in front of our faces coming to the aid of
Speaker 1: her beloved husband, one of her many crushes back in
Speaker 1: the day during the Devas era in the twenty tens.
Speaker 1: Cmpunk is just absolutely out of this world. The speculation
Speaker 1: was heavy. Everybody was guessing that it was gonna be her,
Speaker 1: all the leanings into it. It was kind of obvious,
Speaker 1: but then kind of not obvious. You had other people saying,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it could be real Ripley, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it could be Bailey. Oh my god, it could be
Speaker 1: this person. But throughout the day today it started to
Speaker 1: become more and more apparent that it was going to
Speaker 1: be mss Mama's Miss Black Widow. So Ella, how have
Speaker 1: you been feeling with all of the speculation and the
Speaker 1: rumors and stuff Before we get into the nitty gritty, Yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I was hoping it would be her, But in
Speaker 2: the back of my mind, I'm like, I gotta be
Speaker 2: realistic too. It's been a while, it's not guaranteed. I
Speaker 2: also thought Bailey would have made perfect sense. Him and
Speaker 2: Punk or her and Punker friends in real life. They've
Speaker 2: had a long time history. Bailey also has history with aj.
Speaker 2: We saw that teased on Monday Night, Raw and Punk
Speaker 2: mentioned it. He could have called up real ripley uh.
Speaker 2: Some people were saying AJ Styles could have showed up
Speaker 2: in a wig. There was a lot of alternate, alternative possibilities.
Speaker 2: We didn't know if we were actually gonna get her.
Speaker 2: We thought that we'd at least get like it implied
Speaker 2: that it to be her. But I'm so glad Hello, Ed,
Speaker 2: thank you Ed joining us. I'm so glad that it
Speaker 2: actually was her because after they kept teasing that this
Speaker 2: was gonna be like a monumental must watch, they needed
Speaker 2: to deliver, and they needed to deliver AJ Lee and
Speaker 2: that's what they did.
Speaker 1: I know, Like just even just the stuff about AJ
Speaker 1: Styles being in a wig, you know, that was so
Speaker 1: hilarious for me because there's just you know, because it's
Speaker 1: like when one AJ was gone, AJ Styles popped up
Speaker 1: and became more promisent.
Speaker 2: No, that's true.
Speaker 1: Now we have two aj that's true.
Speaker 2: AJM left in twenty fifteen. AJ Styles shows up in
Speaker 2: twenty sixty. You're absolutely right, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And now we're hearing in the today of things
Speaker 1: and we have two AJ's and it is just the
Speaker 1: most amazing moment, the most amazing thing that could have
Speaker 1: happened at this point. First of all, let's just get
Speaker 1: into how beautiful she looks.
Speaker 2: She got the abs, like girl, we see I see you, girl,
Speaker 2: like she missed so good.
Speaker 1: Miss Mama's has been in the gym. She's got the blutes,
Speaker 1: she's got the pecks, she has everything. And she came
Speaker 1: skipping out here as an evolved version of herself because
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, she would come out
Speaker 1: here with these bad boys. Okay, So she would come
Speaker 1: out here with the Chucks, okay. And when I tell you,
Speaker 1: when I tell you, she made me feel seen back
Speaker 1: in the day because converse are my shoes, and then
Speaker 1: they would go, they're me and my boyfriend's things. I
Speaker 1: kid you not. The night she came out with Dolph
Speaker 1: Ziggler when he cashed in his money in the bank's breakcase,
Speaker 1: she had on the pair of Chuck Taylor's that were
Speaker 1: Harley Quinn, theinged from the comic book that were red
Speaker 1: and purple and black. And I have those pairs of
Speaker 1: shoes because that was the first pair of Congress my
Speaker 1: boyfriend ever bought for me in our relationship. And I
Speaker 1: swear anytime she would come out in those Converse. I
Speaker 1: would feel just so happy because I was just like,
Speaker 1: there's a girl out there who loves Converse just as
Speaker 1: much as I do. But here's the thing. Tonight, she
Speaker 1: came out as an evolved version of herself wearing vans.
Speaker 1: Wearing vans, and I hear the vans are very comfortable.
Speaker 1: I've actually never tried them on, but I've seen a
Speaker 1: couple of designs that are really really cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't attest to that. I'm not much of
Speaker 2: a sneaker person personally, but it's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a tweak. I wonder if the details gonna like mean anything,
Speaker 2: you know, Like you said, though it shows that she's evolved,
Speaker 2: she's not the same. Also, I love just the way
Speaker 2: that Punk is looking at her, like he is so proud,
Speaker 2: he's so in love with her, like fans the next
Speaker 2: step up from Converse. I'm not a sneaker person, but
Speaker 2: I believe you, but Punk, the way that he's looking
Speaker 2: at her is we never really got to see it
Speaker 2: on screen, like we now we're actually like going to
Speaker 2: get to see They teased it, but we need to
Speaker 2: wait to get that kiss. I guess, I guess.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the romance okay, because oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm a romantic girly. So I'm such a romantic girly
Speaker 1: because it's like, and then even thinking about that in
Speaker 1: terms of evolving, like back in the day when we
Speaker 1: saw them, you know together, we're not really together, but
Speaker 1: just kind of like with that fun flirtation thing that
Speaker 1: she had going on with him, Like they weren't a
Speaker 1: couple at that point, Like when you really think about it,
Speaker 1: they were not even a couple at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a year before they came official behind
Speaker 2: the scenes really yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so now you know, we're seeing them and
Speaker 1: we know that they will relationship is very much real.
Speaker 1: And he's looking at her as if he's just so
Speaker 1: proud of her, like like he truly like that is
Speaker 1: really his true true love. And I think and that
Speaker 1: is just the stuff that I just can't get enough of.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just so happy because we're getting to see
Speaker 1: them as an actual couple and it's just so beautiful.
Speaker 1: He's just looking at her like like that's his everything.
Speaker 1: And I love seeing men like that seem punk, you know,
Speaker 1: for all the craziness you know that has followed his career,
Speaker 1: he is a very emotionally you know, secure man, and
Speaker 1: I just love seeing him, you know, be show up
Speaker 1: as this great example of masculinity where it's not so
Speaker 1: where it's not toxic at all. And this is him
Speaker 1: sharing the spotlight with his lady love, who is just
Speaker 1: as accomplished as he is, and it's just so beautiful.
Speaker 1: And the way she's sat on these ropes, she is perch. Funny,
Speaker 1: I know she is perched.
Speaker 2: Also, maybe it's just because we never heard the whole thing?
Speaker 2: Did they the second chorus of her theme song? Was
Speaker 2: that new or did we just never get to hear
Speaker 2: the full thing when she was like in her prime?
Speaker 1: That's we never heard the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I thought, because the entrances would be
Speaker 2: like so short. So that makes sense because like there
Speaker 2: was the whole like second chorus I'd never heard before.
Speaker 2: And I've been watching since O nine, so I saw
Speaker 2: all of a. J Lee and w W.
Speaker 1: I had never heard like that second part of her
Speaker 1: theme song.
Speaker 2: Yeah I don't hear you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't hear it until I actually went on
Speaker 1: Apple Music and listened to it myself today and I
Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, like there's a second verse to it,
Speaker 1: So they played the whole thing all the way out
Speaker 1: and she was skipping and everything. And then another beautiful
Speaker 1: part was the fact that her in laws were, you know,
Speaker 1: in the audience. Like because Cumpunk may reference to his sisters, they.
Speaker 2: Used to jump to jump because the way my.
Speaker 1: Sister shout out to Jackie would have jumped over immediately
Speaker 1: and security would have had to have been like call down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that. That was amazing And it's just I just
Speaker 1: can't even I'm just so happy that I can't even
Speaker 1: put it into words. NBS on Twitter is watching us,
Speaker 1: thank you. He's saying, hey, stuff, came to see your
Speaker 1: reaction to AJ returning. Thank you for watching on Twitter.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just an amazing deal. But of course,
Speaker 1: as we you know, bask in the glow of this
Speaker 1: amazing return, we do have to go back to a
Speaker 1: form of the beginning when it comes to miss AJ
Speaker 1: because mss Mama's in the last few years since Cumpunk
Speaker 1: has made his return, ironically in the All State Arena
Speaker 1: where they were the place, we were there. We were
Speaker 1: there on that cold Chicago night. It was a wonderful
Speaker 1: night at that war games over the past few years
Speaker 1: since he's been back, he's been talking about AJ and
Speaker 1: Larry and of course in this rise of ww in
Speaker 1: its current form, in this new era, there are probably
Speaker 1: newer fans who probably don't know that AJ is more
Speaker 1: than just you know, a girl on Cmpunk's bracelet that
Speaker 1: he was fighting over with Drew McIntyre. And you know,
Speaker 1: there are probably a lot of people who don't even
Speaker 1: who are just now being exposed to her for the
Speaker 1: very first time. So allow us to take you on
Speaker 1: a little bit of a journey of a history lesson
Speaker 1: for ms Mama's. So this of course started this past
Speaker 1: weekend with clash in Paris. We had Cmpunk in a
Speaker 1: fatal four way against j Uso seth Rolins in La
Speaker 1: Knight for the World Heavyweight Championship, and of course Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins has been you know, running around with his Vision
Speaker 1: Faction and vowing to spitefully keep cmpunk from ever becoming
Speaker 1: World heavyweight champion again, cashing in on him at Summer Slam,
Speaker 1: you know, just faking an injury. And at Atlanta we're
Speaker 1: here again. We both were that weekend for evolution and
Speaker 1: stuff and just going on this whole tirade to keep
Speaker 1: seam Punk away from the gold Right. And so just
Speaker 1: when it looked like cmpunk could have had Seth rawlins,
Speaker 1: even though this is Jay Uso right here, dead to rights,
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch comes out, joins the Vision, hits him in
Speaker 1: his private part and screws him over, yes, yeah, screws
Speaker 1: him over for Seth to retain. And then they're all
Speaker 1: slavering over each other like you know, obnoxious couple too,
Speaker 1: and you know they're just yeah, look at us, like
Speaker 1: I'm a part of the Vision now, blase blah, and
Speaker 1: you know, of course on Monday night Raw she gets
Speaker 1: into it in Paris, she gets into it with cmpunk
Speaker 1: because Sampunk she did with her head and I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? This was a very funny Monday afternoon,
Speaker 1: It really was. And it's just like she gets to
Speaker 1: see on Punk's face when he's asking for Seth. And
Speaker 1: here again Punk being you know, a model man, saying, look,
Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with you, This is none
Speaker 1: of your business. I want your coward of a husband,
Speaker 1: you know. And because he's hiding behind the Vision, he's
Speaker 1: hiding behind you, you know. And what's so funny is
Speaker 1: he even calls seth Rolins a bum and saying that
Speaker 1: she had bad taste of me, and yeah, which is hilarious,
Speaker 1: and Loki speaks to something that I feel about something
Speaker 1: she put in her book about him, but we're not
Speaker 1: going to discuss that right now. But either way, she
Speaker 1: slapped him and he was just like, look, you're gonna
Speaker 1: regret ever doing that. And because Paris, thank god for
Speaker 1: raucous international crowds, because they kept chanting aj Lee's name,
Speaker 1: and because they kept mentioning aj Lee even on the
Speaker 1: post show. This sent everybody into overdrives, everybody into speculation overdrive,
Speaker 1: rumor overdrive, all the things, and everybody was just freaking out.
Speaker 1: And so cum Punk goes backstage and he talks to
Speaker 1: Adam Pierce, who has to be the most stressed out,
Speaker 1: sassiest general manager in the history of life, and he says, look,
Speaker 1: is this back down gonna be in Chicago? And he's like, yeah, home,
Speaker 1: sweet home, why and he said that's perfect And then
Speaker 1: this this sense is even more into you know, speculation overdrive.
Speaker 1: So ella, how did you feel about the correlation of
Speaker 1: all these events leading to where we are now?
Speaker 2: Well, once Becky Low blowed uh CM Punk and then
Speaker 2: revealed herself kind of clicked for a lot of people
Speaker 2: were like, wait a minute's gonna even the odds for
Speaker 2: CM Punk now, uh, you know Imoji and then Punk
Speaker 2: obviously on Monday was like, you're gonna regret putting her
Speaker 2: hands on so and also we had seen him before
Speaker 2: before this even happened. We saw Punk and Riha Ripley backstage,
Speaker 2: and Ria offered to offer Punk help if he needed it,
Speaker 2: So we saw there's maybe a tease it could have
Speaker 2: been Ria Ripley obviously, like we mentioned, Bailey has a
Speaker 2: history with Punk, so like those were plausible options, but
Speaker 2: like aj Lee like makes the most sense and would
Speaker 2: have been the biggest, really the biggest asset to this
Speaker 2: whole storyline. And so we're like, is it actually gonna
Speaker 2: be aj because you know, we've been let down before.
Speaker 2: But obviously the day after this the reports came out
Speaker 2: that yes, it is indeed a j Lee. Even then,
Speaker 2: in the back of my mind, I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: so jaded. I'm like, wwe is gonna swerve us get
Speaker 2: our hopes up for something and then it's not gonna
Speaker 2: be her, But then it actually was her. Aj has
Speaker 2: not wrestled in like ten and a half years. She
Speaker 2: wrestled last retrosent in March twenty fifteen, so it's been
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: She stayed fit though she did some scenes for Heels.
Speaker 2: We saw her if you watch that, she did the
Speaker 2: Black Widow to Punk. They were wrestling the ring in
Speaker 2: a scene. But it's been ten years since we've seen
Speaker 2: her in a WWE ring like period, so I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see I think a tag match is perfect for
Speaker 2: her because then even if she is a little rusty,
Speaker 2: even if she is, I don't think people are gonna
Speaker 2: care that much. She's such a big character and she
Speaker 2: was a heavy draw, especially during the diva's era for
Speaker 2: those who aren't a were she was one of the
Speaker 2: most popular merch sellers at the time, like way before
Speaker 2: all the horse women and all of that, Like she
Speaker 2: was like the top diva, like driving sales. So I
Speaker 2: think even if she's a little bit rusty, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's gonna matter that much. She's with Punk, people
Speaker 2: are gonna cheer. It's gonna be an awesome moment obviously,
Speaker 2: like it. Hope it leads to like a singles match somehow,
Speaker 2: But for now. I am more than happy to see
Speaker 2: a mixed tag because that's also another rare thing in
Speaker 2: w We don't get a lot of mixed tags nowa dates,
Speaker 2: so I'm excited for that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ed actually brought it up in the comments, you know,
Speaker 1: he said, if a j Lee has five opponents for
Speaker 1: this run, excluding Becky in this mixed max challenge, who
Speaker 1: would you want for me? It's Bailey, rox Sand, Stephanie, Ria,
Speaker 1: and EO. That's really good. That's murder.
Speaker 2: Bailey and Roxanne like are like those are like shoe wins,
Speaker 2: like absolutely because Roxane is literally AJ's not literally but
Speaker 2: she is AJ's daughter, and then Baibie's obviously good friends
Speaker 2: with Aj. Ria would be super fun. I like Nicki
Speaker 2: Bella is right there. I would love to see them
Speaker 2: run it back. Oh yeah, Aj and Nicki fought over
Speaker 2: the devas title for a while. I see it means
Speaker 2: since we're talking about returns, like can Paige come back
Speaker 2: to Ohaea?
Speaker 1: A lot of people also thought that the rich could
Speaker 1: have been heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't know. That's my girl, Page is my girl? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So like Bribella, where are you at now?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: There's so many crazy returns this year, but I think
Speaker 2: Bailey and Roxanne would have to be shoe ins for
Speaker 2: like to working together in some facet, assuming that it's
Speaker 2: kind of a longer run.
Speaker 1: For a j Yeah, it's really nuts just when you
Speaker 1: sit and think about her contributions to things because for
Speaker 1: a long long time, because of the nature because she
Speaker 1: herself retired, and then of course due to the nature
Speaker 1: of which the m punk left and her retiring due
Speaker 1: to her injury and stuff, there was a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of her foundation in the Divas
Speaker 1: division leading into the women's evolution that was not mentioned
Speaker 1: and was not given credit for. And I am so
Speaker 1: so glad that at this point, you know, there's an
Speaker 1: acknowledgment of that because during this point and I and
Speaker 1: I talked about it a little bit in my past
Speaker 1: episode that I did on her Divas Invitational WrestleMania match
Speaker 1: in the past, if you'll go back and listen to that,
Speaker 1: where she advocated for more time, more money for the women.
Speaker 1: At that time, she advocated, you know, just for better
Speaker 1: treatment for the women, because you know, at that time
Speaker 1: it seemed as if WW was putting on Divas matches
Speaker 1: just for almost the sole purpose of taping for Total Divas.
Speaker 1: No shade to that reality show because it exposed a
Speaker 1: completely new audience to wrestling, and I will never throciate
Speaker 1: at it, but it seemed like there wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of emphasis or importance placed on the women at that
Speaker 1: point in time, and she was really one of the ones,
Speaker 1: you know who was like, look, I am a wrestler,
Speaker 1: you know, let me wrestle. Let me wrestle these women,
Speaker 1: these women are talented, you know, proved me wrong, challenged
Speaker 1: me for this title, and that's exactly what she did
Speaker 1: with that title, reign as the one of the longest
Speaker 1: reigning Divas champions. Like that's really what she did. And
Speaker 1: even though a lot of people feel like her pipe
Speaker 1: bombshell doesn't really particularly age as well due to you know,
Speaker 1: people's feelings about Total Divas and the evolution of all
Speaker 1: of those women on screen that we have seen, that
Speaker 1: was a really big moment where she was just like, look,
Speaker 1: this is about wrestling, Like, come to me and fight me,
Speaker 1: because this is what I'm here for. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that now you know, there's a level of credit that
Speaker 1: she can now get. She can finally fully get her
Speaker 1: Flowers and I'm just so thrilled about that. And I
Speaker 1: want to see her fight everybody. I want to see
Speaker 1: her fight everybody. But I definitely, you know, love the
Speaker 1: list that Ed brought up, all the people you brought up.
Speaker 1: I wish Live Morgan was healed. I wish Naomi.
Speaker 2: I just literally, like two weeks before aj Lee returns Naomi,
Speaker 2: who was her competitor on NXT season three, I think
Speaker 2: it was it is pregnant, and it's like the timing
Speaker 2: could not be worse and she was champed too, like girl,
Speaker 2: like obviously we're happy for her, but like.
Speaker 1: The timing, what could have been right? Literally, and then
Speaker 1: you have the caginess of live you know, and how
Speaker 1: that would have worked out, like that would have been amazing.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, though, there are so many other
Speaker 1: women she could tell stories, which she could tell a
Speaker 1: story with Elena Vega if you wanted to, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: who played her, you know in the Soraya biopic. So
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so many ways I can go
Speaker 1: with it. I mean, so many women she could fight
Speaker 1: her and Chelsea Green could have a thing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1: There's just so much that can happen, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just really great. I'm just so thrilled about it.
Speaker 1: But of course we do have to keep going into
Speaker 1: her more of her history right about now. So the
Speaker 1: first time, of course, she had an indie career before
Speaker 1: she got to you know, NXC and WWE. The first
Speaker 1: time I saw her, I wasn't watching NXC the game show.
Speaker 1: I was in college, so you know, there was a
Speaker 1: limit to certain things I did and didn't watch. But
Speaker 1: the first time I saw her it was when she
Speaker 1: was in the tag team with Caitlin Chickbusters. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were the Chickbusters, and they would always put them in
Speaker 1: a match against Natalia. You know, any combination of a
Speaker 1: match between Natalia and Beth Phoenix. They would always put
Speaker 1: them both in it, and they would always and the
Speaker 1: Demons of Doom would always wind up beating them somehow,
Speaker 1: and I would low key just pray for the day
Speaker 1: they would actually defeat them, because they would just they
Speaker 1: would fight them so much and lose so many times.
Speaker 1: I was like, bro, like, when are they really going
Speaker 1: to like fight them and get a chance.
Speaker 2: There was you might be aware of this. I just
Speaker 2: thought of it. They bwe did film a thing on
Speaker 2: the SmackDown of Caitlin turning on AJ and joining the
Speaker 2: divas a doom, but they never aired it. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: so Jalan's heel turn. Never they would have split them up,
Speaker 2: but they never. They never aired it, so then they
Speaker 2: just continued teaming together.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I feel like that was perfect though,
Speaker 1: because their friendship, yeah, is one of I feel like
Speaker 1: it's one of the more underrated tag teams and underrated
Speaker 1: female friendships when it comes to, you know, women, the
Speaker 1: women's division, because seeing them both together and both be
Speaker 1: goofy and nerdy together and stuff, it's I feel like
Speaker 1: they're sort of like the predecessors to Saul Ruka and Czaria.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. You know, Caitlyn's got the muscle.
Speaker 2: I was a big Caitlin girl, like after like my
Speaker 2: like Kelly Kelly's and Mickey James's left WW like Caitlin
Speaker 2: and like Paige were like my people. I enjoyed their
Speaker 2: dynamic but also like their few It was really good,
Speaker 2: like over the Deep Championship and then they had speaking
Speaker 2: of mixed tags at Summer Slam, Biggie and AJ against
Speaker 2: Dolf and Caitlin. That was another underrated moment. They were
Speaker 2: great as tag team partners and opponents. I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really did enjoy them. I enjoyed them feuding
Speaker 1: against each other, even though it broke my heart because
Speaker 1: I just don't like it when friends break up. But
Speaker 1: the way in which they broke up too, it was
Speaker 1: just like bruh. Like, of course, AJ was just crashing
Speaker 1: out over all everybody, Yeah, crashing out over all the
Speaker 1: crushes that she had, and Caitlyn was chasing the title
Speaker 1: and AJ was mad about that, so she basically perpetrated
Speaker 1: a whole secret admirer thing, Oh my god, yes to
Speaker 1: be the secret admirer and then dump her before it
Speaker 1: even began. And then she just trash her and just
Speaker 1: called her all kinds of horrible names. It was just nuts,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, oh my god. It was a crazy story.
Speaker 1: And just seeing them fight, you know, over the title,
Speaker 1: that was like the first time I actually that was
Speaker 1: the first time I had seen anyone really cry over
Speaker 1: the Devas Championship. When Aj one it, I was just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, because winning a women's title, which was
Speaker 1: very important for her, But even with that, I have
Speaker 1: to mention with her crashing out over so many guys.
Speaker 1: She was in an on screen relationship with Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: of course back then known as Daniel Bryan. Yes, and
Speaker 1: they were cute for a minute, but he was just
Speaker 1: mistreating her a lot of the time. And then he
Speaker 1: definitely like sent it into overdrive after he lost his
Speaker 1: WrestleMania Matthews. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then after you know,
Speaker 1: she was trying to go after c I'm punk ironically, yes,
Speaker 1: going after Kin. You know, they found they were back
Speaker 1: their way back to each other and they had a
Speaker 1: wedding at Raw one thousand and yeah. Ella, this was
Speaker 1: very special to me because this is where me and
Speaker 1: my boyfriend come into play. Okay, So Raw one thousand
Speaker 1: took place in July of twenty twelve, and he and
Speaker 1: I were bonding online because we had met each other prior,
Speaker 1: but we were bonding online over wrestling, and they were
Speaker 1: and WW was building up to the one thousandth episode
Speaker 1: of Raw, and he had the ungodliest crush on AJ.
Speaker 1: He really did when we first started talking, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, and I liked AJ. But
Speaker 1: then at that point because I was because I was
Speaker 1: developing feelings for him, I was just like, why do
Speaker 1: you have a crush on her?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just really nuts. It was really nuts,
Speaker 1: and we can laugh about it now because it's been
Speaker 1: thirteen years, but at the same time, you know, back
Speaker 1: then everything was fresh and he was just hoping to
Speaker 1: God that she wouldn't go through with marrying him, and
Speaker 1: I said, well, you never know, you know, I told him, ww,
Speaker 1: weddings don't usually go as planned, and this one didn't
Speaker 1: because she became general manager after.
Speaker 2: I think my favorite run of hers was the general
Speaker 2: manager run. Also, like the John John Cena like that
Speaker 2: was like they were together for like five six weeks.
Speaker 2: That was a whole scandal because she got fired because
Speaker 2: she was fraternizing with John Cena. I remember that storyline
Speaker 2: that was that was scandalous at the time, and then
Speaker 2: she ended up turning on him at TLC, then aligning
Speaker 2: with Dolph, making out with Dolph at the Slammies. Dolphin
Speaker 2: her Dolphin her were probably making Yes, I remember that
Speaker 2: she just walks away and they're like it was. That
Speaker 2: was probably the sloppiest makeout too that she had in
Speaker 2: her run with anybody was her and Dolph, But you
Speaker 2: could tell that they were having a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: That was probably my favorite like storyline, romantic storyline. It
Speaker 2: was when she was Dolph. They had a lot of
Speaker 2: had a lot of crazy segments, but it was a
Speaker 2: lot of fun.
Speaker 1: They were hilarious, and I'll never forget the time when
Speaker 1: someone was trying to call her crazy and then Nick
Speaker 1: at Slash Dolph covered her ears and said your must babe,
Speaker 1: and then covered her ears and said she's not crazy,
Speaker 1: and then he and then she uncovered her and said
Speaker 1: she's passionate, you know, like their their relationship was hilarious.
Speaker 1: And I love the ways in which she would wear
Speaker 1: her boyfriend's T shirts like she would have them. She
Speaker 1: and here again showing those amazing apps with those jeans
Speaker 1: or with those shorts, and she just looked so good
Speaker 1: all the time, and I was just like, man, if
Speaker 1: I if I looked like her, I'd wear Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's also when she took that chop from Big Ee
Speaker 2: during the entrance and she she just no solid it
Speaker 2: like he was completely fine, Like I was crazy.
Speaker 1: I was so worried for her. I was so worried
Speaker 1: for her in that moment because I was just like
Speaker 1: because I remember watching it happen in real time, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, and then she just kept walking and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, Yeah, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm fazed. Yeah, and Biggie was his muscle, Like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. Just the evolution of everybody involved in that
Speaker 1: is just absolutely nuts. But of course her and Dolph
Speaker 1: wound of not working out, but she started focusing on
Speaker 1: herself and then to Mina Snuokle was her muscle. Yes,
Speaker 1: and she held on to this Devis Championship and for
Speaker 1: all of the craft that you know, us wrestling fans
Speaker 1: talk about this championship, you know, I feel like she
Speaker 1: really made this not saying the other women didn't make
Speaker 1: it mean anything. You know, they did the very best
Speaker 1: naketure of what they were given. She really made this
Speaker 1: title mean a lot, like a whole whole lot. And
Speaker 1: you know, she's one of the main reasons why I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you know, people take it to a degree,
Speaker 1: you know, take it seriously to a degree, because she
Speaker 1: defended it. She fought forward, like she took on every
Speaker 1: woman in that roster and defeated them all for that title.
Speaker 1: And she held on to that record for as long
Speaker 1: as she could.
Speaker 2: Five days, Yeah, right.
Speaker 1: She two hundred and ninety five days is just was
Speaker 1: unheard of at that time for a women's title. So
Speaker 1: the idea that she did that and you know, had
Speaker 1: her own style and was just not afraid to be
Speaker 1: herself and wrestle, which is she was ahead of her
Speaker 1: time for real.
Speaker 2: I absolutely agree. And man, I remember she had some
Speaker 2: she had some great feuds there obviously with like Caitlin
Speaker 2: at that time, uh NAO. She had some really good
Speaker 2: matches with Naomi too. That was really after she broke
Speaker 2: out after that tag team match at SummerSlam, is when
Speaker 2: she like really focused on like her singles wise, where
Speaker 2: she wasn't involved with like any of the like guys anymore. Really,
Speaker 2: so that's when we really got to see her, I
Speaker 2: feel like truly, you know, granted there was still obviously
Speaker 2: limitations at that time with like the divas and stuff
Speaker 2: like time constraints, but I feel like after that was
Speaker 2: when she like really got to shine like solo. And
Speaker 2: then for a while she did held the record for
Speaker 2: the Divas Championship that obviously Nicki Bella overtook that in
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen. She had some great feuds with Page the
Speaker 2: following year they went back and forth with the title,
Speaker 2: and then obviously Nicki ended up beating Page and beating
Speaker 2: AJ in late twenty fourteen, and then obviously that leads
Speaker 2: into Page and AJ aligning for against the Bela Twins
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania thirty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really insane because for a minute, it
Speaker 1: was almost like her and Sorea were just how potatoing
Speaker 1: that belt, and all of it came just because AJ
Speaker 1: was bragging about beating everybody at WrestleMania thirty only for Soirea,
Speaker 1: who was NX the first ever NXC women's champion at
Speaker 1: that time, to come and beat her in one night
Speaker 1: in her debut like that was absolutely nuts. And then
Speaker 1: at one point they tried to pretend they were friends,
Speaker 1: and then they weren't friends, and then AJ was gone
Speaker 1: for a minute and she came back and then beat
Speaker 1: her for the title again. It was just really really nuts,
Speaker 1: you know, and and for some people it could have been,
Speaker 1: you know, discombobulating, but at the same time, that was
Speaker 1: what wrestling was at that time, and you had to,
Speaker 1: you know, just enjoy it for what it was. And
Speaker 1: I actually had one of AJ's love Bites t shirts
Speaker 1: at one point, but I think I lost it, so
Speaker 1: I think now it's the perfect time to re up.
Speaker 2: I'm curious. I'm curious, you know what. I'm gonna look.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they have shirts right away. Sometimes I'm gonna look.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm pretty sure they're gonna have it right away.
Speaker 1: I'm more than sure the traffic for it is gonna be.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's gonna like they're gonna crashed wwe shop.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's back. Love Bites is back right at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna crashed the same way seampunk crash
Speaker 1: shop A w.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got the love Bites design in like a shirt,
Speaker 2: a sweatshirt, a tank top. It's it's a play on
Speaker 2: one of her old designs. Of course, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't even know if you guys would be able to
Speaker 2: see it, but yeah, yeah, and she got the Black
Speaker 2: Widow and the love Bites in the back.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was hoping she was going to actually lock
Speaker 1: in the Black Widow on and got away.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, okay, okay, okay, I guess they're
Speaker 1: gonna say.
Speaker 2: We can't have all the dessert on the first night.
Speaker 2: This was just a taste of hope we'll get the
Speaker 2: black widow probably in the match.
Speaker 1: Yeah if SmackDown was three hours, and maybe we would
Speaker 1: have got it. Yeah, but I don't think we could
Speaker 1: have handled all of that in three hours like that.
Speaker 1: That that need it, that deserved to be the very end.
Speaker 1: It really did well. Ella. I do have a question though,
Speaker 1: since we were together for Evolution, would you have felt better?
Speaker 1: Would you do you feel like this return right here
Speaker 1: tonight was perfect for her or would you have liked
Speaker 1: her to have been involved in Evolution at some point?
Speaker 2: I think storyline wise, this is probably the best way
Speaker 2: for her to come back because she hasn't been in
Speaker 2: the ring in ten years, and I feel like, again
Speaker 2: I'm just speculating, but a tag team match is probably
Speaker 2: easier to get through than a singles match where she's
Speaker 2: by herself and probably ring rust, So at least she
Speaker 2: might not have to be in the ring as much
Speaker 2: and Punk can take it. And Punk's been active whereas
Speaker 2: she hasn't for a decade, so I think physically for
Speaker 2: her this is probably the better option, and storyline wise
Speaker 2: this is huge for her. You know, Becky Lynch and
Speaker 2: Seth Rollins are at the top of their games respectively.
Speaker 1: See them.
Speaker 2: Punk is a top star still, and plus we've never
Speaker 2: seen aj in Punk like okay, so they have tag
Speaker 2: team together, but that was like during the phase where
Speaker 2: Punk was not actually into her. You know, they're actually
Speaker 2: together now, So I think storyline wise, this is probably
Speaker 2: the most perfect way to do it. What I have
Speaker 2: loved to see her at evolution. Absolutely, I feel like
Speaker 2: we should have had more of the Legends in like
Speaker 2: actually competing instead of just sitting around the ring, But
Speaker 2: that's the whole other sidebar. I think this is perfect
Speaker 2: what I've loved to see your evolution, Yes, absolutely, but
Speaker 2: storyline wise it's a you got top stars and physically
Speaker 2: I have to imagine this is probably the easiest match
Speaker 2: and safest match for her to do, especially considering she
Speaker 2: has a wrestle in like ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I absolutely agree. The Legends being an
Speaker 1: evolution was fantastic, and there was levels to me, in
Speaker 1: a selfish sort of way that they kind of wonder
Speaker 1: what would have what would it have been like to
Speaker 1: see some of those legends back in the ring or whatnot,
Speaker 1: But of course we don't know, you know, what their
Speaker 1: situations were body wise and all of the above, but
Speaker 1: you know, and honestly, Evolution was still one of the
Speaker 1: best shows, if not the best show of the whole year.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not complaining about anything at all
Speaker 1: because my heart is still full from that show and
Speaker 1: it's been two months. Heart's still full from it. Never
Speaker 1: over it, never will be over it. I can't, I
Speaker 1: literally can't. I'm pretty sure I'll go to therapy and
Speaker 1: still can't get over. But yeah, ah, of course, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned her tag team match with Page at Wreussellmania
Speaker 1: thirty one, they did have a match the night after,
Speaker 1: and that turned out to be her final WW match.
Speaker 1: She retired because she did have issues neck issues and
Speaker 1: injuries that were sort of nagging, but she still tried
Speaker 1: to push through it. And then, of course you had
Speaker 1: the nature of the way that Cino on Punk's relationship
Speaker 1: with WW ended back then, and her just feeling like
Speaker 1: she was fulfilled in terms of her wrestling career, having
Speaker 1: done everything she wanted to do at that point, which
Speaker 1: is crazy to think about because she left at that point,
Speaker 1: but then right afterward, right afterward, you had like the
Speaker 1: women's evolution that happened, and if she had not have
Speaker 1: decided to retire, it could be argued that she probably
Speaker 1: would have benefited from that as well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, she retired also at twenty eight. She's only thirty
Speaker 2: eight now, so like she could I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know if she intends this to be like a long
Speaker 2: term thing, but I would think realistically, like she could
Speaker 2: still physically go. You know, I don't know how her
Speaker 2: neck is, and obviously she's cleared to compete, so it's
Speaker 2: better than it was ten years ago. But like, she's
Speaker 2: thirty eight, like Punk her Punk is almost a decade older,
Speaker 2: and he's still going. So let's go. We want like
Speaker 2: an extended run. I feel like there's a lot of also,
Speaker 2: like Lyra Valkyria is somebody who was also an aj girl,
Speaker 2: Like she has her old tweets about aj Lee still
Speaker 2: up there, one of them, which by the way, was
Speaker 2: a photo of Roxanne meeting aj But Lyra tweeted about
Speaker 2: like talk about full circle things. Give me a triple
Speaker 2: threat with rock san Lyra and.
Speaker 1: Aj right absolutely nuts, like these women, like she is
Speaker 1: now in a women's division full of women who were
Speaker 1: inspired by her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: That is beautiful. That is one of the most poetic
Speaker 1: and most beautiful things that I love about the fact
Speaker 1: of her being back because with her getting her flowers,
Speaker 1: you know, for her contributions to women's wrestling, she gets
Speaker 1: to be in a locker room full of women who
Speaker 1: watched her like that's incredible. That is just absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: That's the stuff that we love to see. It's inspirational.
Speaker 1: And so in the midst of her being gone, she
Speaker 1: wasn't gone from our site completely because what with her
Speaker 1: also being a mental health advocate, because she discussed what
Speaker 1: her mental health issues were. She wrote an autobiography called
Speaker 1: Crazy is My Superpower, which you may have heard Michael
Speaker 1: Cole make reference to brilliantly on commentary tonight. She wrote
Speaker 1: a book about her whole life, and if you have
Speaker 1: not read it, I do recommend it. It is a great read.
Speaker 1: I bought it and read it and it was really good.
Speaker 1: And actually I might read it again. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if I have enough time. I don't think I do,
Speaker 1: but either way, it's a great book. It was a
Speaker 1: New York Times bestseller. She tells the story of how
Speaker 1: she got started with wrestling and just some of the
Speaker 1: things that she struggled with in during her time growing
Speaker 1: up in New Jersey. With her family, and what she
Speaker 1: had to sacrifice in order to become you know, a wrestler,
Speaker 1: and what she had to you know, fight through in
Speaker 1: w W in a WW that just was not prepared
Speaker 1: to see women as full fully realized characters, and how
Speaker 1: she still fought to be you know, the most authentic
Speaker 1: version of herself. Like, it is such a good story.
Speaker 1: I do recommend reading it, Ella. I think at one
Speaker 1: point we did talk about this book and of you
Speaker 1: reading it, I.
Speaker 2: Admittedly have not. You have I have not. No, it's
Speaker 2: all aole, but I've only heard good things about it.
Speaker 2: I went to school, like for psychology before like wrestling
Speaker 2: even became a thing. I've only heard good things about it. Like,
Speaker 2: she is very open. I believe she had bipolar disorder.
Speaker 2: She is very like open and transparent about that, which
Speaker 2: I think is awesome. So and she's been able to
Speaker 2: embrace that. I think that's also another reason why a
Speaker 2: lot of people look up to her as her candor.
Speaker 2: She's not afraid to be vulnerable and tell her story,
Speaker 2: which I feel like a lot of people And again
Speaker 2: I don't know her whole story, but I feel like
Speaker 2: a lot of people, you know, some of the stuff
Speaker 2: that I know that. I just the little stuff that
Speaker 2: I do know of, Like, I don't think a lot
Speaker 2: of people would have had the strength to really overcome
Speaker 2: that and then go on to have a successful career. Also,
Speaker 2: like dealing with that while you're at the height of
Speaker 2: your career at the same time. You know, I don't
Speaker 2: think a lot of people would have been able to
Speaker 2: survive or really endure that. But she did, and she
Speaker 2: came out of it, and she obviously continued to give
Speaker 2: back even while she was away because you mentioned Wow.
Speaker 2: She later became a producer for women A Wrestling But
Speaker 2: I know that is your like cherished projects, so I
Speaker 2: will get I will let you talk about that endeavor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then also just talking about her career as
Speaker 1: a writer, she has not only written her autobiography, she's
Speaker 1: also worked on multiple comics books, one of them being Glow,
Speaker 1: which leads into the Wow thing, and then also just So.
Speaker 1: And she's also like screenplayed or written for different TV
Speaker 1: shows that has a production company too from what I understand. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so mss Mama's has a pan and that's really cool.
Speaker 1: I love that for her. And of course she has
Speaker 1: also acted in various commercials and you know, she gets
Speaker 1: her acting on like you mentioned with Heels that was
Speaker 1: once on Stars, which people are still you know, begging
Speaker 1: for it to come back because of how good of
Speaker 1: a show it was. It's on Netflix now, but still
Speaker 1: like she was still out here, you know, front facing
Speaker 1: in public, you know at times. And then of course
Speaker 1: she would pop up at comic cons because she was
Speaker 1: such a comic book fan, which was something that she
Speaker 1: also had no problem representing on WW television as well.
Speaker 1: Like she called herself a geek goddess, like she was
Speaker 1: always you know, into video games and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and that made her cool to men and women all
Speaker 1: over the planet because at that time, of course, women
Speaker 1: in WW were mostly you know, sort of seen like
Speaker 1: like as these perfect gorgeous women, but you didn't really
Speaker 1: hear much about what they were interested in. But she,
Speaker 1: you know, let it be known from jump from her
Speaker 1: NXC days all the way into her main roster day
Speaker 1: that she was different. She was a Chuck Taylor wearer.
Speaker 1: She was you know into comic books and such. So
Speaker 1: she represents a lot of different interest in a huge way.
Speaker 1: And that's something that can be spoken about as well.
Speaker 1: And in talking about that of course we move into Wow.
Speaker 1: This was special to me because there are gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are going to say that,
Speaker 1: of course she has not been involved in wrestling per
Speaker 1: se in ring in like over ten years and stuff,
Speaker 1: which is accurate, but I want the record to be
Speaker 1: shown that she was involved in wrestling because, of course
Speaker 1: with the rebooted version of Women of Wrestling Wild Superheroes,
Speaker 1: she was an executive producer for the rebooted for the
Speaker 1: first season of the rebooted version of the show, and
Speaker 1: she was a color commentator alongside David McClain, owner and
Speaker 1: creator of Wow, as well as Steven Dicky. She added
Speaker 1: so much intelligence and so much of her sense of
Speaker 1: humor to the commentary desk that at times I would
Speaker 1: just find myself just wishing she was more involved with
Speaker 1: the end ring stuff because there's just so much, so
Speaker 1: many facets of her character that would pop up, pop
Speaker 1: out on commentary that was just like, man, I miss
Speaker 1: you so much. We me and Katrina enjoyed covering her
Speaker 1: elsewhere and on our own show, Stepan kat talk Wow
Speaker 1: so much and we loved seeing her be a part
Speaker 1: of things, you know with the show and supporting so
Speaker 1: many other women who wrestle for the Indies and also
Speaker 1: wrestled for a Wow, like Jasmine Allure, you know who
Speaker 1: wrestled on Wow in the first season and a little
Speaker 1: bit in the second season as well. She called her
Speaker 1: her twin because they got to look alike. And just
Speaker 1: seeing her, you know, take a hand in and embracing
Speaker 1: these women on Wow, it was just really really healing.
Speaker 1: That's why Loki broke my heart when she said that
Speaker 1: she wasn't going to return at one point because her
Speaker 1: contract was up, and I'm more than sure she had
Speaker 1: other things to do, but we do miss her on
Speaker 1: Wow all the time. And you know, she was involved
Speaker 1: in wrestling in that way in terms of her voice
Speaker 1: and in terms of her input, but just not in ring.
Speaker 1: And I just want the record to show that because
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: gonna mention it, who are going to mention her wrestling
Speaker 1: career and be like, oh, well, she hasn't done this
Speaker 1: since this, and they might skip over the Wow thing,
Speaker 1: and let's not skip over it. Let's stop skipping over
Speaker 1: them because they matter like they always do. So yeah,
Speaker 1: please watch Stephan Kat talk Wow to hear more about
Speaker 1: our feelings about the show because it is still on.
Speaker 1: It's going into its fourth season, so let's just put
Speaker 1: that out there. So we are going to continue our show,
Speaker 1: keep that going. But it was so great seeing AJ
Speaker 1: be a part of this. It just felt right. It
Speaker 1: just felt really right and really good. And we miss
Speaker 1: her over there. But of course now you know that's Bailey.
Speaker 1: Actually I'm sorry, but of course now she has made
Speaker 1: her grand return to WWE, and there haven't been any
Speaker 1: announcements made as to I guess so far, I haven't
Speaker 1: looked on my phone or online or whatever to see
Speaker 1: any announcements that have been made about the match, but
Speaker 1: it's it can be very much assumed that she will
Speaker 1: be in a mixed bag match with her hubby against
Speaker 1: Seth and Becky. But selfishly, I want her to go
Speaker 1: after the Instal Championship. Like selfishly, that's what I want
Speaker 1: because if her husband is going to go after the
Speaker 1: world heavyweight, then I want AJ to hold some more
Speaker 1: gold too.
Speaker 2: I mean, she possibly could have a singles match on
Speaker 2: rob ahead of Wrestler Palooza potentially, Like this is just
Speaker 2: the beginning. I really hope that this is like goes
Speaker 2: beyond Wrestler Palooza me too, because there's so much potential there, like,
Speaker 2: so much potential matches obviously though, like I mean, we'll
Speaker 2: take what we can get, you know, at this point,
Speaker 2: but there's so much potential for so much. I would
Speaker 2: love to see hear go after the women's Icy title,
Speaker 2: because that wasn't even like a women's mid card title,
Speaker 2: was not even like not even fathom mobile like a
Speaker 2: decade ago. Like we were lucky after they unified the
Speaker 2: Women's and the Devas Championship. We were lucky to have
Speaker 2: the one Divas Championship, bro, Like.
Speaker 1: We were Like, people don't understand. Yeah, it's like for
Speaker 1: all of the trouble, for all of the craziness that
Speaker 1: we go through, for what we want, you know, for
Speaker 1: you know, the booking of the US title and the
Speaker 1: Icy title, you know, and even the booking of the
Speaker 1: Women's World title and the Women's Championship, it is a
Speaker 1: miracle from the Lord himself. Well I'm a Christian, so
Speaker 1: it's just like it's a miracle from the Lord himself
Speaker 1: that we have multiple women's titles to talk about us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is, because once upon time it was just
Speaker 1: that one title and that was it, And there was
Speaker 1: one time where it was the Women's Championship and the
Speaker 1: Devas Championship, and then they combined them, and then it
Speaker 1: times where you wouldn't even see the Divas title on
Speaker 1: major pay per views, Like it's just it's a miracle
Speaker 1: that now we have all the titles that we do have,
Speaker 1: and everybody is in a figuring out phase. Nothing's ever
Speaker 1: truly perfect when it comes to wrestling, and even when
Speaker 1: it comes to women's wrestling. And I know how protective
Speaker 1: we can be because we want the very best for
Speaker 1: all of the women, but we really have to sit
Speaker 1: and just think about how far we've come and how
Speaker 1: grateful we are, and a lot of that has to
Speaker 1: do with the contributions of AJ. So I am just
Speaker 1: so thrilled that this is where we're at. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that she is back in WWE, sitting perched on
Speaker 1: her throne next to her man. I'm never gonna get
Speaker 1: over this image.
Speaker 2: I'm just not like, just don't want to go after
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm gonna watch it like crazy tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Does it never feel like a fever dream? Like certain
Speaker 2: things happen and like it doesn't feel real, Like I like,
Speaker 2: it feels fake.
Speaker 1: Like this feels like a dream. Yeah, liked, like did
Speaker 1: we dream it? Like? Are we gonna wake up the
Speaker 1: next morning and it's not gonna be real? Yeah? It's real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so we have reached the end of our
Speaker 1: time together. Thank you guys so much for watching and
Speaker 1: listening to this emergency podcast about a jay Lee returning
Speaker 1: on SmackDown in Chicago her home, well, her home with
Speaker 1: her love rather because she's from New Jersey. She's from
Speaker 1: Union Park, New Jersey. Yeah, I think it's Union Park,
Speaker 1: New because I think Live Morgan is from Elmwood, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I've never been to New Jersey, so that's a place
Speaker 1: I still think I have. Yeah, that's a place I
Speaker 1: still gotta go. So yeah, forgive me if I'm getting
Speaker 1: things wrong, but yeah, Union City, New Jersey's own A
Speaker 1: jay Lee is back and I just had to talk
Speaker 1: about it because this is just an important moment in
Speaker 1: women's wrestling history. And I'm so thankful for you Ella
Speaker 1: for being willing to come on. Oh my god, thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the invite. Again. One of the things
Speaker 2: that you never would have those on my list, said yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's never gonna happen. It did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's yeah. You never say never in wrestling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not at all. So ella, thank you for joining me
Speaker 1: and just tell everybody where they can find and follow
Speaker 1: you what you've got going on.
Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and Blue Sky.
Speaker 2: It's la j like it says right there. I just
Speaker 2: had a new interview with Rachel leg come out. She's
Speaker 2: an up and coming indie wrestler that just moved to Florida.
Speaker 2: So that's out. Now have a few more interviews coming out.
Speaker 2: I admittedly will not be at Wressell Paluza. I will
Speaker 2: be it all out, which, by the way, thank god
Speaker 2: they moved into three pm so I can watch Wreussell
Speaker 2: Palooza still. But I will be at aw all out,
Speaker 2: but I luck hopefully that's over by the time Wressell
Speaker 2: Palooza starts, so I can watch aj Lee Wressell. But
Speaker 2: in the meantime, yeah, I'm so excited. We'll have to
Speaker 2: wait for the official announcement if they haven't already made it,
Speaker 2: but congrats to aj Lee. She's officially back.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well, of course, check out her interviews because her
Speaker 1: interviews are always great and just everything that she does.
Speaker 1: Ella has been out here for years doing the dang thing,
Speaker 1: so please support her and all the things. So of
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Speaker 1: day before my birthday. So yes, your girl is thirty
Speaker 1: two years old.
Speaker 2: A birthday present, aj Lee was.
Speaker 1: My birthday present and child time. I say this all
Speaker 1: the time. Anytime women's wrestling history happens the week of
Speaker 1: my birthday, I feel like it's just for me, it's mine,
Speaker 1: It's just for me. Like it's happened more than once.
Speaker 1: It happened with the May Young Classic. Yeah, like it
Speaker 1: happened like tonight, Like it's happened so many times and
Speaker 1: I and I'm just grateful for it. It's almost like God,
Speaker 1: it's like looking down on me from Heaven's like, what's
Speaker 1: something that's gonna make her happy this week women's wrestling,
Speaker 1: and he delivers every time, and he knows. But even
Speaker 1: with wrestling, even with the men too, because you know
Speaker 1: that happens too, because Carmelo Hayes and Ricochet happened on
Speaker 1: my birthday as well.
Speaker 2: So, hey, I got birthday seam punk A, look.
Speaker 1: At you, and I have the same birthday as Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods and Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's a legendary right there.
Speaker 1: And awesome Calm and Jason David Frank May he rest
Speaker 1: in peace. Yes, So yeah, just a lot of icons.
Speaker 1: I was born on September fourth, Yeah, it's just an
Speaker 1: amazing day. So of course this has been HWP Extra,
Speaker 1: the Hardy Wrestling Podcast in the first ever emergency pod.
Speaker 1: Aj Lee is Back, Baby Women's Wrestling is kicking butt
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Until next time, by y'all.