Alexa Bliss is again in WWE after a surprising return to motion at Royal Rumble on Saturday night time.
Multi-time former world champion Bliss has been absent from screens for the final two years, however acquired a thunderous response from a 65,000 crowd in Indianapolis as she entered the ladies’s Royal Rumble match.
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It was a full-circle second of types for Bliss ,who final appeared in WWE on the Royal Rumble in 2023, unsuccessfully difficult for the Uncooked Girls’s Championship in opposition to Bianca Belair.
After that Rumble outing, Bliss battled pores and skin most cancers and gave beginning to a daughter and, in newer months, hopes that the 33-year-old would return have been dampened by hypothesis that she’d didn’t agree phrases with WWE on a brand new contract.
Wrestling Observer E-newsletter famous final month: “Alexa Bliss & WWE have been at the least far sufficient aside in contract negotiations that individuals are speaking about not anticipating a deal to be made.”
Come again she did, although, wanting cheery as she bounced all the way down to the ring to tangle with outdated rival Bayley and a clutch of different prime stars.
Sadly for Bliss, her return proved short-lived. Coming into at quantity 21, she lasted only a few minutes earlier than being dumped excessive rope, a lot to the frustration of these available.
Having her again was all that mattered, although, as followers celebrated on-line. One stated: “That pop was sustained. The gang stored going and going. Enormous second for Bliss.” One other added: “Welcome again, Queen!”
Making uncommon reference to the net discourse over Bliss’ future, commentator Michael Cole even hissed: “The web stated she wasn’t coming again!” to which colleague Wade Barrett joked: “Cease studying the grime sheets, Michael Cole!”
Bliss is a five-time former world champion throughout her reigns on the prime of Uncooked and SmackDown, together with a string of extra tag workforce reigns and a girls’s Cash within the Financial institution win, making her some of the embellished stars within the enterprise.
Elsewhere within the girls’s Royal Rumble match, Corridor of Fame star Trish Stratus made one other WWE comeback along with her personal cameo.
One of many greatest stars within the firm throughout the final twenty years and a seven-time world champion, Stratus entered at quantity 25 within the match and, as typical, regarded like she hadn’t been away as she nailed a her trademark bulldog to the echoes of ‘that is superior’ from the gang.
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The most important returns did not finish at Bliss and Stratus – Nikki Bella featured for the primary time in three years with a surprising exhibiting on the Rumble, whereas eventual match winner Charlotte Aptitude additionally made a triumphant return after her personal harm absence.
New WWE signing Jordynne Grace additionally made her firm debut on the Rumble in what was a star-studded opening match of the night time.