10 Quick Fixes For WWE's Women's Division In 2020

1. AJ Lee Returns...

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...and not, ideally, as a host of a sister show for USA Network or Fox.

AJ Lee was the unfairly-erased fleeting saviour of a division on death's door when she became Divas Champion in 2013. Away for much of a 2014 dominated by discussions around the acrimony between real life husband CM Punk and WWE, she walked away for good in 2015 as relations between the two sides failed to improve.

This resulted in years of re-writing, as the likes of The Bellas were erroneously credited with helping a league of struggling females through their darkest hour, even though the entire thing almost certainly would have collapsed without the thin veneer of credibility it was afforded by the likes of Lee and the ever-present Natalya.

But what a time for her to try it all over again.

Now a New York Times bestselling author, AJ doesn't need wrestling, but the industry could well still need her. A generation of fans have witnessed the architects of WWE's Women's Revolution, but many of them never got to witness a performer that found popularity without any of that press.

Around WrestleMania season and with some ill feeling with the company and her other half finally lifted, 2020 could be the perfect vision for her return.

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