Though AJ was amazing as a manager and on-screen girlfriend, as a wrestler the charming, skipping and more-than-occasionally unhinged AJ Lee was truly excellent. A generation before her time, AJ upped the ante insofar as introducing unique spots and influences to WWE's Divas Division. However, it's in her ability to excel at the tried and true methods of getting heat, keeping heat and staying way the hell over that defined her excellence. A three-time Divas champion, it's in her leaving the company as a Slammy Award winner who started the #GiveDivasAChance movement and also wore Bayley's "I'm A Hugger" t-shirt in the ring on Raw in her last on-screen appearance before retiring where her greatest legacy remains. A daring trailblazer in all ways, her stamp on women's wrestling in WWE will never be forgotten.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
