10 Wrestlers For Whose Passion For Wrestling WWE Killed
6. AJ Lee
The early 2010s was not a particularly great time for women’s wrestling in WWE. While NXT was still laying the foundations for what it would eventually become, the main roster offered very little for its female performers. However there was one person who was still doing her absolute best and carrying this division on her back. And that was one AJ Lee.
Straightaway AJ was extremely different from most of the female stars of that period. Diminutive in stature and not built like a supermodel, she was simply a wrestler and that is what made her so good to watch.
Only problem was that WWE, as they are often prone to, put her through some truly atrocious angles. The worst of which of course was displaying her as someone with a mental health issue and making a bit of a mockery of it, despite knowing full well that AJ had an actual medical bipolar disorder.
Things got worse as the years progressed because towards the end of her WWE run, AJ was caught in the crossfires between her employers and her husband CM Punk, who of course had his infamous falling out with the company during this period. Ultimately this proved to be the final nail in the coffin for her wrestling career as following WrestleMania 31, she retired from the ring.
It should be noted that the retirement was on her terms and that she felt she had fulfilled all her goals, but nonetheless one would imagine AJ still had a lot to offer in the ring had it not been for the toll WWE took on her personal life.