Becky Lynch had been gone from WWE television since announcing her pregnancy on Raw back in May 2020. In a heartfelt segment, she would relinquish the Raw Women’s Championship she had held for 398 days to Asuka and then disappeared from the spotlight to give birth to her and Seth Rollins’ baby daughter Roux on December 4, 2020. Since then, fans have been clamoring for her return, without much news. However, during SummerSlam, she triumphantly returned, defeating Bianca Belair in less than 30 seconds to become the SmackDown Women’s Champion.
Belair had been scheduled to defend her title against Sasha Banks, but WWE would announce just prior to the match that she was unable to compete. While WWE knew this up to eight days ago, they continued promoting the match, and initially, it appeared Carmella was set to be Belair’s opponent. However, Lynch’s music would play, and she instead faced Belair. Following the match, Lynch would speak to Kayla Braxton backstage and simply say, “The Man is back, and it feels good.“
The belief was Lynch was set to return for WWE’s upcoming draft in October. However, with Banks missing for yet unconfirmed reasons, WWE opted to bring her back early. It is also possible that with AEW getting so much attention from the debut of CM Punk, WWE wanted to create their own buzz by having arguably the most popular women’s wrestler in company history make her return.
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