AJ Lee may not be a part of the WWE roster anymore, but she was one very tough athlete.
New Day member Big E recently talked about his WWE debut and an incident he had with the three-time Divas Champion on his way down to the ring.
Big E was set to take on Daniel Bryan and had Lee and Ziggler in his corner, but he may have been just a little too pumped up for his debut match.
On his way down to the ring, the WWE Superstar swung his hands in the air as a way to prepare for the match and accidentally struck Lee in the chest. The former Diva of the Year took it in stride, glancing at Big E and moving on with the segment without breaking character.
Though everything was fine, the member of The New Day trio revealed he was very worried about Lee after striking her.
"That was, at the time, probably the most frightening moment in my career," Big E told the Rappler Podcast (via WrestlingInc). "It probably still is."
The reigning WWE Tag Team Champion also said he wasn't sure where his errant blow caught Lee, so he was very relieved to see she was still standing after the contact.
"I remember swinging back and knowing that I hit her, and I was expecting to turn around, see this tiny woman on the ground in a pool of blood," he said. "I don't know what I would have done after that, probably just walk straight to the back. But thankfully, she's very tough, it ended up hitting her, in, like, her chest or upper torso region, not her face, she was fine. We ended up having a laugh about it later but that could have been really bad, but thankfully, everything's all good."
Lee retired from the WWE shortly after WrestleMania 31 in March 2015, mostly due to the ongoing legal battle between her husband, former WWE Superstar CM Punk and the company's doctor, Chris Amann.
Punk walked out on the WWE in January 2014 and later that year he blasted Dr. Amann and many WWE executives, saying the physician misdiagnosed him on several occasions and tried to sweep away a concussion he claimed to suffer. Dr. Amann countered with a defamation lawsuit against Punk and Colt Cabana, whose podcast was the platform for the discussion.
Though Lee stayed with the WWE for over a year after Punk left, the lawsuit apparently was too much for her to overcome and she opted to move on with her life.
The couple remains busy outside of wrestling as Punk will make his long-awaited UFC debut in a fight against Mickey Gall on Sept. 10 at UFC 203 in Cleveland, while Lee just finished writing her book, which will be out next spring.
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