After two long years, Alexa Bliss finally returned to WWE last weekend in the Royal Women’s match Rumble. It would have been a great story alone, but Bliss’s return was somehow even greater because of the drama that surrounds him in the previous few weeks, when reports emerged that Bliss and WWE had reached a Contractual impasse which apparently led to the abandonment of WWE creative plans for it.
Examine the Royal Rumble on Sunday “Wrestling Observer Radio,” Dave Meltzer provided more information on Bliss’s return. Although he was told that things had been developed between WWE and Bliss in recent days, Meltzer could not hide his skepticism that what happened was always the plan.
“I am told that the Alexa Bliss thing was a late negotiation,” said Meltzer. “I do not believe it, because it is a professional struggle. My conviction is that they were drawing a desert … The essential on Alexa Bliss was his contract, because of frost and free time and everything, this was not standing. But he was about to be standing.
“Not necessarily under a barrel, but it’s a bit annoying to start someone, put them on television, and then if you don’t stop and you don’t have a new contract, they disappear. They are. just understood ‘the new contract concluded.
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