• WWE Legend Says AEW Run Is The Greatest Run Of His Career
Christian Cage returned to in-ring competition during the 2021 Men’s Royal Rumble match after being out of action for a long time due to his history with concussions.
WWE did not offer him a deal and he ended up in AEW a couple of months after his return. The former World Heavyweight Champion believes his run with Tony Khan’s promotion has been the greatest in his pro wrestling career.
Here’s what he said in an interview with Raj Prashad of Yahoo’s Uncrowned:
“You don’t typically see it happening with people that are around the 50-year-old age, completely becoming something, this fresh entity. But I’m not like anybody else. And that’s why it works, because I don’t feel like I’m 50 when I’m in the ring or 51.
If I couldn’t do what I did at the level that I did it, then I wouldn’t even be in the ring. This is, without a doubt, the greatest, the best run.
Did I see it happening this late? No, but it did. And like I said, when I got my career back after being gone for 7 years, I wasn’t coming back to do the greatest hits tour. I was coming back to be the best. And that’s the kind of standards that I hold myself to.
Anything less than that, you would not see me step foot in that ring.”
• Nikki Bella Wants 2 More Stars Back In WWE After AJ Lee’s Return
WWE has featured a lot of big returns in the Women’s division this year. Nikki Bella came back to the company during the Women’s Royal Rumble match and then showed up a couple of months later to be a part of the second Evolution Premium Live Event.
The biggest return in WWE that happened this year is that of AJ Lee. The former Divas Champion came back on the latest edition of SmackDown after a decade.
Nikki Bella shared her excitement about the return of her former rival and wishes to see her twin sister Brie and Paige back in WWE as well.
A fan asked the WWE Hall of Famer if she would like to face AJ Lee again to which she responded:
“That would be so fun! We had a great and magical run! Loving 2025 so much!!! Goodness imagine if Paige and Brie showed up!”
Paige left WWE after her contract expired in 2022 and Brie Bella departed from the company after her contract wasn’t renewed in 2023.
• Former Champion Won’t Return To WWE Because All Her Friends Got Released
Ronda Rousey joined WWE in 2018, and had a decent first run there. She didn’t find her second run very amusing, and a big section of the fanbase didn’t enjoy it either.
The Baddest Woman On The Planet has made it clear that she’s done with wrestling and doesn’t intend on going back to WWE.
In an interview with Raj Prashad of Yahoo’s Uncrowned, the former Women’s Champion said that there’s no reason she’d go back to WWE as her friends got released from the company.
“It was a lot of needless anxiety and things like that. And the whole company was just a chaotic sh*t show on the inside. And then they ended up dropping all my friends. So I really have no reason to go back.
I wanted to do a run with the Four Horsewomen and I never got to do that. And now I feel like I’ve already accomplished everything that I wanted to in WWE and all that’s really left for me is to go there and have fun with my friends, and none of my friends are there anymore.”
Rousey left WWE in the summer of 2023, while Shayna Baszler was let go by the company earlier this year. Marina Shafir is under contract with AEW and Jessamyn Duke has been away from pro wrestling since being released by WWE in 2021.
• WCW Legend Says Toni Storm’s “Timeless” Gimmick Is The Best In Women’s Wrestling History
Toni Storm didn’t get a lot of opportunities to showcase her talent in WWE, but moving to AEW helped her become one of the top female stars in the pro wrestling industry. Her unique “Timeless” gimmick has gotten over with the majority of fans.
On the latest edition of the What Happened When podcast, Conrad Thompson asked AEW commentator Tony Schiavone if The Undertaker had the greatest gimmick in pro wrestling history and if Toni Storm could work her way into the same category.
Schiavone agreed about the fact that The Undertaker is the greatest character in pro wrestling history and then praised Toni Storm.
Below is what the WCW Legend said:
“I was thinking about that too, but I didn’t really want to compare Toni Storm to Undertaker, but that is a tremendous gimmick. Probably, as far as women’s wrestling goes, the best [gimmick of all time].
Again, just taking an idea that Tony Khan had and putting the right people in the right places. You couldn’t really do this with anybody; she just really leaned into it, as the old cliche goes, and is just wonderful to work with.”
