“It was funny because I came to the back [from the Rumble match] and Bruce [Prichard] is like ‘Hey, do you want to do this again?’ I was like ‘Maybe.’ I didn’t give him a definite yes because I wasn’t really sure at that point,” Jax said. “But then I sat and I waited. It was like a girl waiting for a guy to call. I was like ‘Are they going to call me?’ I’m kind of sitting around, then got back in the ring and spoke to TJ [Wilson]. He was like ‘Yeah, why don’t you come back?’ I’m like okay, let me get in better shape.”

Fueled by a potential comeback in the company, Jax resumed in-ring training with the help of WWE’s TJ Wilson and Natalya, who run The Dungeon 2.0 facility in Florida. Jax sought out additional training at the D-Von Dudley Academy, led by WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley, for several months as well. With an extra push from her former WWE Performance Center coach Sara Amato, Jax eventually then reached out to Levesque again.

“I texted him, literally I was sitting at [Amato’s] house, her son and my nephew play together. I just said, ‘Hey, Hunter, how are you doing? Want to chat?’ Then literally like two minutes later, he’s like, ‘Yeah, we can hop on a call later.’ Then it all just rolled from there,” Jax said.

Jax returned to WWE as a full-time Superstar in September 2023 by laying out Raquel Rodriguez and then-WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley on “WWE Raw.” More than two years later, Jax herself is now a Queen of the Ring winner and former Women’s Champion once again. She’s also now considered a locker room leader.

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