Current WWE champion pushing for AJ Lee's return after 9 years

A current champion in WWE has revealed that she is pushing for AJ Lee to return to the company. Lee has not competed in a match since the March 30, 2015 edition of RAW.

AJ Lee is married to CM Punk in real life. The former AEW star announced that he was medically cleared last night on the red brand and will be squaring off against Drew McIntyre at WWE SummerSlam next month. NXT Women's Champion Roxanne Perez was recently interviewed by Pro Wrestling Illustrated and shared that she has been trying to convince Punk to get his wife to return to the ring. She added that she wants the opportunity to face the 37-year-old in a match.

"Definitely, yeah, I try [to talk to CM Punk about convincing AJ Lee to return] but he tells me that he’s doing the same thing. He’s trying to get her to come back, he’s pulling her in but, I hope one day she decides to come back and have a match with me," Perez said. [H/T: Post Wrestling]

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WWE star Roxanne Perez claims she cannot retire until she faces AJ Lee

NXT Women's Champion Roxanne Perez recently stated that she does not want to retire until she gets the chance to battle AJ Lee.

The 22-year-old recently appeared on the Ring The Belle on YouTube and discussed the possibility of Lee returning to WWE. Perez suggested she would not retire until she faced AJ Lee in a match and joked that she didn't want to be wrestling as an elderly woman.

"It's going, we're trying you know. Hopefully, one day, she'll come back and maybe we can all do something together. That would be, that would be like my dream. I can't retire until I have a match against AJ Lee. So you know, I can't be 80 years old wrestling either, so," Roxanne Perez said. [From 02:17 to 02:33]

Drew McIntyre has claimed in the past that he could steal AJ Lee away from CM Punk if he wasn't married. It will be interesting to see if the popular star ever returns to WWE down the line.