"She wore my shirt in her retirement match" - WWE star on AJ Lee return; reveals reason why

AJ Lee was one of the most important female stars who led the charge for the Women's Revolution in the WWE. After a decade long hiatus, she finally made her return to wrestling this year. In a recent interview, Bayley shared her thoughts on AJ's return and what it means to her.

While speaking on the Six Feet Under podcast with the Undertaker and Michelle McCool, Bayley spoke about her connection with Lee. She revealed how she was lucky to work a match in NXT with AJ when she was the Divas Champion. The Role Model also revealed that AJ Lee actually wore her merch during her retirement match.

"When she retired, she wore my shirt in her retirement match. We didn't even know that was her retirement match, then she ended up retiring that week and I was like so confused." She said. (1:03:40 onwards)

Bayley also revealed that they had been in touch for years even while AJ was gone and was excited to have her friend back.

"Throughout the years she's been gone we have kept in touch, we would meet up for coffee whenever we can so I've seen her throughout the years, and Punk too, and we maintained that friendship...So her coming back was like, obviously huge for the industry, but I was just excited for my friend to come back, and now being close with Punk as he's been there, like I needed to be there, for her." (1:03:52 onwards)

It will be interesting to see Bayley and AJ Lee have a match together in WWE again.

Bayley revealed that stars like AJ Lee are coming back because of the current Women's division

During the same podcast, Bayley spoke about how well the current Women's division in WWE has been doing over the years. She credited the return of stars like AJ and Nikki Bella to the performance of the women's division over the last few years.

"We were talking the other day like, the fact that you want to come back here says a lot about what we've been doing these last few years, because you wouldn't come back if the division didn't seem stacked or competitive or passionate or going places or main eventing WrestleManias, I want to give the girls credit too." (1:04:56 onwards)

The Women's division in WWE has indeed been one of the best parts of the product for the past several years.