Saraya returned to the ring at AEW Comprehensive Equipment on November 19, 2022, soon after not competing within the squared circle for virtually five yrs because of to a vocation-threatening personal injury that was sustained in a Live Function match in opposition to Sasha Banking companies, now known as Mercedes Mone. On her return to the ring, Saraya defeated Britt Baker in a match that went above 13 minutes — having said that, her in-ring wrestling style had significantly changed.
Even though on her “Twitch” stream, former “NXT” Women’s Champion Saraya discovered if she has to wrestle in a different way thanks to the big damage she sustained in 2017 and talked over what she needs to be additional selective of relocating forward. “Sure, I do truly,” Saraya claimed. “I have to be additional very careful. I have to be far more selective with what moves I can take. But, luckily the producer that we have at AEW, BJ, BJ Whitmer, he also has the very same damage as me.”
Before her Twitch stream, she experienced discovered the doctor that cleared her advisable that Saraya only wrestle after a month at most. She wrestled her first match in almost two months on the January 11, 2022 version of “AEW Dynamite,” when she teamed with Toni Storm in a losing exertion towards Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. and AEW Women’s Earth Winner Jamie Hayter. The match drew substantially interest from fans thanks to the rumor of Mercedes Mone maybe displaying up to “Dynamite” despite Saraya choosing Storm as her spouse. Nevertheless, Mone did not surface on Dynamite.