A WWE star has revealed how their contract expiry in 2022 led to their decision to return later that same year.
After a successful four year spell on WWE NXT, Candice LeRae departed WWE in May 2022 upon the expiry of her contract.
By that time LeRae had not competed for the company in almost an entire year due to taking maternity leave for the birth of her and Johnny Gargano’s first child Quill.
As revealed in an interview with Fightful, LeRae was keen to get back in the ring just five weeks after Quill’s birth, however, due to her WWE contract expiring a return to the independent scene seemed to be the only option on the table.
Despite being eager to compete, her husband Gargano instead advised her to be patient, which ended up paying off as WWE ended up reaching out to her for a return to the company just months later.
LeRae explained:
“Johnny is very patient. I’m not. So five weeks after I had Quill, I went to my doctor and I was like, ‘How soon can I do physical stuff?’
“They cleared me and I just needed to be back at the PC as soon as possible to get in ring to see if it was even possible. So by week eight or nine, I was finally back in a ring rolling around a little bit.
“That was my, ‘Okay, I can do this again.’ So, when my contract expired and we were trying to figure things out, I basically told him, ‘Hey, I think I’m going back to the indies, and I’m wrestling right now.’
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, no. Just wait.’ So the process was me being like, ‘I’m ready,’ and my husband saying, ‘Just wait.’
“When Shawn and Hunter reached out, it was a no brainer. This is where I wanted to be. This is where we wanted to be our whole lives. It’s home.”
LeRae’s first match back in WWE came on the September 26 edition of Monday Night Raw, with Gargano also returning to the company just a month prior, after his own contract had expired in late 2021.
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