10 Things You Didn't Know About AJ Lee

10. Her Childhood Idols

There's an absolutely heartwarming piece of WWE archive footage, filmed during an autograph signing at the company's doomed Times Square eaterie WWE New York, depicting a teenage AJ Lee breaking down in tears as she approaches one of her wrestling idols, Lita. The prototypical anti-Diva, good egg that she is, took the emotional youngster into her arms in a warm embrace.

Lee told NorthJersey.com that, during an era when WWE's women were often presented as titillation rather than talent, it was strong female figures who stood up for themselves such as Lita, Molly Holly and Trish Stratus who inspired her. Intriguingly, she also pointed to the archetypal damsel in distress, Miss Elizabeth, as one of her biggest idols. "I wanted to grow up to be just like her," she wrote on her Glory Wrestling profile. In a sense, she did, finding herself at the centre of a love triangle in 2012 between Daniel Bryan and CM Punk - effectively a modern day reimagination of the implosion of the Mega Powers.