Saraya Shuts Down Internet Rumors About How She Got Cleared To Wrestle In AEW - Wrestling Inc.

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Saraya — formerly Paige successful WWE — returned to the ringing astatine AEW's Full Gear pay-per-view and defeated erstwhile AEW Women's World Champion Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. It was Saraya's archetypal lucifer since being forced to measurement distant from the squared circle owed to a superior cervix wounded sustained successful 2017. While the erstwhile WWE Divas Champion did not get cleared to instrumentality to the ringing during her last years with WWE, she did get the all-clear aft signing with Tony Khan's promotion. In effect to online rumors surrounding however she was cleared, Saraya has addressed the process that yet led to her in-ring comeback. 

"I consciousness I person to wide this up due to the fact that I consciousness similar the net conscionable creates their ain stories astir however I was cleared and who cleared me," Saraya told the "AEW Unrestricted" podcast. "So radical deliberation I went to aggregate doctors. I didn't. I went to 1 doctor. You know, AEW doctors, Dr. Sampson, and besides Tony Khan, they were like, 'We can't fto you wrestle until we cognize you are a 1000 percent cleared.' They did it the close way."

Saraya arrived successful Khan's promotion astatine "AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam" connected September 21, 3 months aft her WWE declaration had reportedly expired. Her astonishment quality came pursuing a fatal four-way lucifer for the AEW Interim World Women's Championship involving then-champion Toni Storm, Serena Deeb, Athena, and Baker. On the October 5 occurrence of "AEW Dynamite," Saraya got carnal with Baker aft a heated verbal exchange, which yet led to their pay-per-view showdown. 

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