Saraya Would Love To Work With AJ Lee Again, Wants To Bring Back ‘NXT Paige’
Saraya weighs in on A.J. Lee’s comeback and the idea of them mixing it up again.
Friday Night SmackDown in Chicago, Illinois, saw the WWE return of A.J. Lee. It had been a decade since the three-time WWE Divas Champion was last on WWE television.
Lee is set to make her in-ring return at the Wrestlepalooza Premium Live Event, where she’ll team with her husband, CM Punk, to take on WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.
One of Lee’s former on-screen rivals, Saraya f.k.a. Paige, appeared on Busted Open. She was asked if seeing Lee’s comeback got her amped up and if it makes her want to get back in on the action. Saraya said seeing all the positive messages she received in the aftermath of Lee’s comeback got her emotional.
“You know, I’m always gonna have that feeling because WWE is doing amazing things right now and you’re just like, man, I miss being in the locker room, I miss being around people like Nattie (Neidhart), I miss being around my sisters and I miss being a part of these things, and then then I watched A.J. (Lee), I’ve watched that over and over again, because she’s my fairy godmother dude. I love her so much. She’s the one that kind of took me under her wing when I first came up on the roster too, and we traveled together, we had the frenemies thing and my social media has not stopped. It has blown up. I cannot go on there without hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people doing videos being like, ‘Please bring Saraya back, please bring Paige back,’ and I get excited because I keep forgetting — I feel like people don’t like me anymore, and it feels pretty insecure and I’m not trying to get sympathy, but, it made me really emotional for the past couple of days and I have shed some tears about it because I’m like, ‘Oh my God, people still like me and they still want me to be around’ and that’s probably the best feeling in the world for me. I get insecure about these things… With A.J., I would love to be her tag partner again or run it back eventually. I’m not saying right away. She needs her moment; people are excited for her to come back. Maybe one day. We’ll see.”
Saraya went on to state that she wants to start training again and bring back the ‘Paige’ that people saw in NXT.
“I know my career has been really great. It was kind of cut short with the neck and stuff like that but, now she’s healthy. Now my neck is healthy, now I’m in full 100 percent health, and I wanna start training again. I want to get in the ring and bring back the Paige that I was in NXT…”
Saraya wrapped up her run with All Elite Wrestling after being with the company for several years. She is now a free agent and has not wrestled since October 2024.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Busted Open with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
