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Despite all the other options for top wrestlers these days, everyone still loves a shock WWE comeback.

Certain, Raw, SmackDown, 205 Live, NXT and now NXT UK are jam-packed with talent, but there'southward goose egg like the giddy nostalgic thrill and potential angles you get from a surprise return.

Of grade, the wrestling landscape is a very different place than it was two years ago (or even two weeks agone), with the rising and rise (and rise) of AEW giving released talent a real alternative big leagues pick.

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When the likes of Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Jon Moxley, Miro and Ruby Soho are wrestling at some other promotion, there'south definitely an argument that no wrestlers needs to be in the WWE to say they're at the top.

But that doesn't mean that the WWE wouldn't do good from them coming home and settling some sometime scores.

Then from the very obvious to some more out-there returns, here are 24 WWE comebacks we'd absolutely beloved to meet.

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24. Bo Dallas

While his (existent life) brother Bray Wyatt has had his ups and downs, he had a much smoother run than poor Bo Dallas.

Certain, Wyatt didn't always get those big wins you recall he might, but equally boss of the Wyatt Family, then solo Bray, then 'The Fiend', he'south held the very biggest titles in the WWE, faced The Undertaker at WrestleMania and more than.

What about Bo? The fact that his own Undefeated Streak infuriated so many people for so long shows just how splendid he is at telling a story and getting a graphic symbol across in the band.

The same people who found Bo'due south Streak and then cool were the ones who got angry when R-Truth defeated it with such piffling fanfair. And that'due south how yous be a heel in the 21st Century.

And he wasn't simply nigh the lolz. In NXT especially he proved himself to exist a more than-than-tidy in-ring-competitor, and it'due south a shame he never actually got to bear witness that side of him on the main roster.

Baron Corbin gets too much criticism, and a big part of that is that he'southward given besides much to practise, also often. If half of Corbin'southward angles had been given to Bo over the last few years, both men AND the WWE Universe would have benefited.

So bring Bo dorsum. Give him time, space and feuds on the main roster and he'll more than than deliver.

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23. Neville

For a while, The Man That Gravity Forgot became the man the WWE forgot. Shunted on to 205 Live, he made a renewed touch on as the King of the Cruiserweights, merely Neville soon became dissatisfied with his position and faded from view altogether.

Remarkably he stayed at home and sat out his contract for months on cease, only resurfacing recently when he was complimentary of the WWE to denote his render to the indies as PAC once more.

While there was plain some deep dissatisfaction going on, information technology doesn't seem as though there was serious bad claret between PAC/Neville and the WWE.

Yes, PAC is doing well with AEW and the Death Triangle at the moment, but we're non ruling out a return, and with the explosion of NXT U.k., perhaps Neville can find a spot he truly enjoys with the company one mean solar day.

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22. Wade Barrett

One of the original Nexus (their debut is still one of the finest moments in WWE history), Barrett had a hell of a run in his relatively brusk WWE career. FCW and OVW tag belts in evolution, NXT flavor i, KOTR and of grade a 5-TIME WWE Intercontinental Champion.

He struggled with injuries and some pendulous booking and took some time out from the business organization. Barrett returned with management roles with What Culture Pro Wrestling and Defiant Wrestling, before heading up ITV's WOS Wrestling, before eventually coming back to WWE as a commentator in August 2020.

But what we actually want is an in-ring WWE return. Wade's blank-knuckle boxing past gave him a unique edge (and some legitimacy) and the Bad News gimmick was one of our favourites, but the truth is... well, we spent years trying to make that mooted Manic Street Preachers/Wade Barrett hookup happen. We badgered Wade about it. We badgered Nicky Wire about it. We nevertheless desire information technology, and we need a WWE improvement for information technology to happen, okay?

And the man himself has a dream match in mind...

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21. Lita

Lita is yet very much part of the WWE. A booker/agent/writer, trainer, commentator, Hall of Famer and frequent on-screen and in-ring presence, the erstwhile champ is family.

Alongside Trish Stratus, Lita dragged the then-WWF into the 20th century kicking and screaming past sheer talent and force of will alone, against every sexist obstacle put in her path.

And like returnees, she came dorsum for the recent high point of WWE women's wrestling, that starting time Women's Royal Rumble. Lita clocked up a brace of eliminations (Mandy Rose and Tamina), and didn't look a second off the pace.

She likewise returned for the all-woman WWE Evolution in a tag match aslope Trish Stratus, and proved (not that it was needed) that she tin handle a full-time return run.

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20. Matt Hardy

For much of his career in the WWE and elsewhere, Matt Hardy has been inseparable from his brother Jeff.

While they've had solo runs, they've ever washed their very all-time piece of work together, whether Cleaved or Woken or just plain Hardy Boyz.

But that'southward changed in a big style recently. While Jeff is still in the WWE and still proving a solid man in the midcard, Matt Hardy has jumped send and is currently over in AEW.

Unlike some at the fledgling promotion, Hardy doesn't have whatever bad blood in with the WWE, so a return seems entirely possible.

On the other mitt, Hardy is a lot, lot older (and a lot more beat up, to exist fair) than many of those who fabricated the movement.

So the clock is very much ticking for a comeback, but it'due south ane nosotros'd still beloved to see once last time.

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xix. Sarah Logan

Unlike many on this listing, Sarah Logan didn't exactly take the WWE past storm during her run in that location.

Nevertheless information technology was a shock when she was released in mid 2020 during some roughshod price-cutting when the pandemic began to take concord.

As the Riott Team, Logan, Liv Morgan and Ruby Riott fabricated a fantastic first impression, just for that goodwill to exist frittered away by bad defeats and even worse breakups.

But nosotros however felt a proper reunion would surely happen some mean solar day. Unfortunately, after her release Logan announced that she would exist retiring from wrestling aged just 26.

That young age ways that there'southward no reason why things might not change in the near hereafter. And if she teamed back upwardly with Ruby and Liv a little older and a lilliputian more streetwise, the trio could finally make practiced on all that initial promise and kickstart the next stage of the WWE women's revolution.

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18. Erick Rowan

Erick Rowan was technically one of the COVID-19 axings, but it felt similar he was always going to be out the door shortly after Luke Harper successfully agitated for a departure.

Commencement as a fellow member of the Wyatt Family, then a Bludgeon Brother, then as "Harper and Rowan", the duo were pretty much inseparable in the WWE.

And for all their undeniable solo talents, they work so incredibly well as a team, and specially with Bray Wyatt pulling the strings.

Tragically, our dream reunion tin now never happen.

Harper had been utterly storming it as Mr Brodie Lee in AEW, but his devestating decease at the age of 41 cut short his career renaissance in the saddest of fashions

Now known every bit Erick Redbeard, his quondam tag partner was having lower-primal success on the indies. He deserves a render to the WWE, where he can shine equally a solo star.

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17. Kaitlyn

Between the bra and panties year and these post-(r)evolutionary times in the Women's Division, there are a few wrestlers who accept been unfairly forgotten. Women who kept the flame burning in the WWE and put in the work to help us go where we are today.

A veteran of the original NXT, Kaitlyn won flavour three and fabricated her fashion to the main roster in 2010, winning her get-go and only WWE Divas Title two years later on the 20th anniversary of Raw.

A Chickbuster alongside AJ Lee, Kaitlyn didn't get the opportunities she deserved, but she was a massively important office of the story of women'southward wrestling in the WWE. She retired from the business in 2014, but made her return concluding December with Coastal Championship Wrestling.

She DID of form render to the WWE in the 2018 Mae Immature Classic, simply was eliminated in the second round past Mia Yim. In that brusk mini-comeback she proved that she still has what takes for a proper render to the big time.

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16. Chris Jericho

That'due south because since his last comeback he did the unthinkable... not just having run in Japan and appearance at All In, only actually signing up with a rival company in AEW, and becoming their standard bearer and showtime AEW World Champion.

Forget about his feuds with Bray Wyatt, Kevin Owens etc. When Chris Jericho next makes his proper render to the WWE, he'll be doing information technology from a position of absolute strength, his current run making him as hot every bit he'due south been for a long, long time.

He may even bring a few pals with him (and we don't mean his Fozzy bandmates).

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15 & xiv. The IIconics (Peyton Royce and Billie Kay)

At that place have been few more disappointing things in the WWE in recent years than the WWE Women's Tag Team Partitioning.

Announced with great fanfare, the belts have stuck around but have increasingly felt like an afterthought at best, or a crutch for singles competitors and feuds at worse.

Instead of being a prize in its ain right, the belts take been used to spice up Sasha vs Bayley, Sasha vs Bianca, etc. etc. etc.

The big function of the trouble is just how few bodily, established, named tag teams in that location are in the women's locker room.

Absolution and the Riott Squad were split, which left The IIconics as perhaps THE best character duo in the company.

And what happened next? Peyton Royce and Billie Kay were separated for reasons no-one really understands, and from at that place the writing was on the wall.

The most surprising-only-unsurprising names of the post-Mania were this duo. Good wrestlers, GREAT characters and already sorely missed.

They're doing their own thing on the indies as The IInspiration, but existence really honest, the WWE needs them more than they needed the WWE.

Bring them back, get some teams established, and let the WWE Women's Tag Segmentation actually be A Thing.

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13. The Rock

The Rock left at just the right time in 2004 when the crowds were kickoff to get bored of his antics, only has resurfaced several times over.

A proper improvement happened with his One time Twice in a Lifetime WrestleMania-bookended feud with John Cena, which also included an eighth WWE Championship win with victory over CM Punk.

Injury and a return to Hollywood put an end to that run, and appearances since then have varied in meaning and quality.

There were thumbs upwards for his WrestleMania Xxx co-hosting gig with Blob Hogan and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin and the early on introduction of Ronda Rousey to the WWE Universe the post-obit year.

Then there was an ill-brash interjection in the 2015 Majestic Rumble that saw both he and Roman Reigns go booed out the building and an even-more ill-advised vi-2nd defeat of Luke Harper at WrestleMania 32.

He's opted out of the WWE Hall of Fame on the promise of Another Proper Return, simply the clock is ticking. And with his cousin Roman Reigns at the top of the tree, the fourth dimension is Now. Not for quick quips and eyebrow-raising to the crowd, just for One Last Run for The Bully Ane.

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12. Emma

Emma was axed from the WWE more in one case. A graduate of the Storm Wrestling Academy, she has every bit much talent as anyone in that locker room today. Her NXT feud/friendship with Paige was legendary and laid the building blocks of the women's revolution.

Emma survived all sorts of difficulties on the main roster, from beingness Santino Marella'south sidekick, all that dancing and the abased Emmalina gimmick change.

Released for a second time, she returned to the indies under her existent name Tenille and naturally impressed there, with runs in Ring of Honor, Impact and (of course) AEW.

She'south got plenty of years left in the tank, and we'd honey to see her come back to the WWE and finally win that Women's Championship she'south ever deserved.

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11. Cody Rhodes

Unlike some wrestlers, Cody Rhodes certainly isn't hankering afterward a WWE improvement following his difference. He famously wrote a listing of things he'd like to achieve in the next stage of his wrestling career, and simply went ahead ticking them off one by one.

More than than that, he non only moved on past the WWE, he has become the founder of the commencement company we might consider actual contest for it (or at least a genuine alternative) in All Elite Wrestling.

Back in his WWE days, his Stardust gimmick split the crowd (we were big fans), but there was never been whatsoever doubt about the raw ability and pedigree of the American Nightmare.

At that place's been a flake of bad claret between him and the WWE over trademarks and the similar, only nothing nearly as ill-tempered as the feud between CM Punk and the visitor.

Instead, Cody has simply got on with it. He went All In confronting Nick Aldis and won the NWA title in front of x,000 fans who sold out the outcome in half an hour. Since then, AEW was formed and has gone from strength to strength (to strength).

It's hard to think of an ex-WWE wrestler still doing it in the ring who needs the company less, and that's exactly why we'd honey to come across him come back and have the place by storm, culminating in a world championship run his talent and charisma deserves, capped with a WrestleMania main event.

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10. Rusev

Later a soft start in developmental, Rusev absolutely exploded onto the main roster of the WWE all the way back in 2014.

He had a strong Majestic Rumble debut and bulldozed his way through countless feuds before picking upwards the U.s.a. Title and setting himself on a collision course with John Cena.

He ultimately lost to Cena at WrestleMania 31 and despite some occasional moments since then he never quite regained that incredible initial momentum.

There were highs (Rusev Day!) lows (The League of Nations) and then that oh-so weird final storyline with Lana and Bobby Lashley.

Rusev was maybe the biggest name to leave in the first COVID-nineteen round of axing, and he'due south definitely the one we miss most.

He's nonetheless a beau (only in his mid-30s) and, of course, was picked upwardly by AEW where he fights as Miro and is doing remarkably well.

Merely surely he has another WWE run left in him? And we'd beloved honey honey to come across him rolling into Mania in a tank again.

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9. CM Punk

No-one stays quit forever, they say. Everyone comes back, they add. And maybe they're right. Later swearing blind that he was done with wrestling, CM Punk made a stunning return to the business after seven years away past signing up to AEW.

He seems delighted to be where he is, and it's safe to say that there'south no love lost betwixt the WWE and CM Punk.

But his abrupt deviation later the 2014 Majestic Rumble (from which he was eliminated by a non-legal Kane) ways it always felt like there's unfinished business.

Punk's short stint on Play a trick on's WWE Backstage prove led to Twitter spats with guys like Seth Rollins and The Miz, and has us dreaming about having the Straight Border Superstar headlining WrestleMania.

His signing with AEW doesn't completely shut the door on him walking through the most forbidden door of all. After some time being Elite, he might but fancy popping by to drop one last pipe bomb.

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8 & 7. Nikki and Brie Bella

The Bella Twins have left and rejoined the WWE many times over, with both formally retiring in March 2019.

Both women got plenty of unfair grief from some sections of the WWE Universe during their careers.

Dismissed as models, wannabes, reality Tv set stars, attachments to their top-tier male person partners, now that their retirement has set in and we can wait dorsum at their work in its totality, they can exist truly appreciated.

Gamechanging, era-straddling superstars, they as much as anyone were at the vanguard of the Women's (R)evolution. Never happy to remainder on their honour, they always strived to improve in the band. Ever brought it every bit characters.

And with Full Divas (and Total Bellas), they were responsible for some of the best, almost consequent, nearly entertaining content to come out of the WWE.

Both confirmed their retirement in succession on Total Bellas in 2019, with Brie's family life and Nikki's serious neck issues seemingly putting a permanent end to their careers.

Yes, things will be trickier at present with Daniel Bryan over in AEW, simply he left on good terms and then that shouldn't be the biggest stumbling block.

And talking of Daniel Bryan, it's amazing what medical science can do these days, and at only 37 years old, nosotros think both could offering something special to the WWE if their bodies allow it.

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vi. Dean Ambrose

The only ex-WWE star who arguably has as little demand for a comeback as Cody Rhodes or CM Punk is Dean Ambrose.

Certain, he'south non a co-founder of AEW, but in the short fourth dimension since his (surprisingly smooth) separate from the WWE, the reborn Jon Moxley has taken the independent wrestling world by storm.

His debut at AEW: Double or Nothing got worldwide attention, equally did his gruesome Unsanctioned Match with Kenny Omega at Full Gear and his eventual capture of the AEW World Championship as its second titleholder.

What'southward more, he's not reliant on the fortunes of the fledgling company, with matches in New Japan, Northeast and other promotions meaning he's got a lot keeping him decorated.

Mox has been pretty song about what he didn't like near WWE (long story short: Vince McMahon'southward daft ideas), but Vince is in his 70s and seems to be slowwwwwwwly giving up control.

Jon is merely one-half that historic period, and it's certainly possible to imagine a non-likewise distant time to come where Dean Ambrose returns to the WWE with a little more freedom to limited himself (though probably with fewer deathmatches).

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5. Ruby-red Riott

Another one of those WWE supstars who made a large splash and wash pushed oh-so difficult, before things fizzled out much too fast.

Equally leader of the Riott Squad, Ruddy was a big deal. Once Absolution fell and the Squad had no antagonists, she kept things together. Even later on the Team disintegrated, you lot hoped that Riott herself would push on for major solo glory.

It didn't quite happen similar that, and similar many on this list she's found greener pastures and a better spot over in AEW.

Only that doesn't make a improvement incommunicable, and despite the solid talent still at the WWE (Becky, Sasha, Bayley), there'south however a real need for fresh claret and solid talent to shake things upwards, and second time effectually Ruby could absolutely do that.

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four. Bray Wyatt

Of all the departures from the WWE over the final few years, this was undoubtedly the virtually shocking.

The likes of Adam Cole, Dean Ambrose and Daniel Bryan were known to exist running downwards their contracts. Others like Braun Strowman and Ruby-red Riott seemed to have hit a ceiling.

But even when he wasn't a champ or going for the championship, Wyatt was always hovering around the top, and always, always bringing something to the table.

The obvious move now and the expectation is that Bray Wyatt will caput to AEW to bring together the likes of CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, but peradventure the WWE has seller'southward remorse.

We wouldn't rule out a swift return for Bray Wyatt, and nosotros're already excited most what form he might accept.

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iii. Hideo Itami

Information technology's difficult to remember of a wrestler who had worse luck in recent yearswith injuries than Hideo Itami.

His signing to NXT in 2014 was supposed to exist a game-changing moment.

A massive independent (and foreign) star, the capture of the then-KENTA was a sign that NXT was no longer just a preparation footing for home grown talent, just something much bigger and better for the industry.

He popped up in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31 and continued to build momentum in NXT before his fledgling WWE career was batty by injury.

He returned, but other injuries e'er seemed to disrupt his momentum. The likes of Finn Bálor, Shinsuke Nakamura and others took his identify in the pecking gild, and he was shunted around NXT and 205 Live earlier eventually asking for, and getting, his WWE release in 2019.

A render to Nippon followed, and since signing up with New Nihon Pro-Wrestling, KENTA has plant his form. He won the NEVER Openweight Championship in London and held on to information technology for over 100 days.

At twoscore and with his hard-hitting style, his years are perchance numbered, but there's still more than enough fourth dimension for the triumphant return to the WWE he deserves.

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2. Ronda Rousey

Despite 2 brutal, high-profile UFC losses, Ronda Rousey came to the WWE absolutely dripping with both legitimacy and potential.

What'southward more than, she absolutely delivered on it. From her tag team debut aslope Kurt Angle to her storming title run, RR proved herself as maybe i of the most natural wrestlers in WWE history.

Technically, she went on a interruption for what she called an "impregnation holiday" with no hard feelings (and she announced her pregnancy in April 2021) but things definitely went a flake more sour than they should take.

Her rivalry with Becky Lynch was one of the best in the WWE for ages, but as it spilled over into social media things got a petty too existent for comfort.

Embracing the "reality era" is i thing, but undermining the business is quite another. Simply it's aught that tin can't be salvaged with the correct angle. Once her kid is old enough for a babysitter, Ronda Rousey vs Becky Lynch in a one-on-one match at WrestleMania is simply that angle.

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1. Paige

Yeah, we know Paige still works for the WWE (though she's not been seen for a while), and did a great job as General Manager of SmackDown Alive until the aborted 2019 McMahon-Helmsley takeover. We as well know that she's suffered a serial of injuries that has ended her in-ring career.

Just in 2018 we had Daniel Bryan and Kurt freakin' Angle wrestling, the onetime doing it week in, week out. We absolutely wouldn't want Paige to rush back to in-band action, or to exercise anything that would harm her health or her futurity.

But nosotros can dream. And we're dreaming that with some medical advances and a massive helping of luck, in a few years fourth dimension Paige volition stupor usa all by stepping pes back into the ring and getting her easily on a Women'south Title or two.

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