WWE creative staff prepares for Bayley to return to Raw

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Bayley poses ringside during Monday Night RAW at American Airlines Center on October 6, 2025 in Dallas, Texas. | Photo by Bradlee Rutledge/WWE via Getty Images With a Sunday Night’s Main Event coming up from WWE this weekend in Atlanta, that may remind you we haven’t seen Bayley on WWE programming since Lyra Valkyria beat her at July’s Saturday Night’s Main Event in Manhattan. Since word came out that Bayley’s current WWE contract would be expiring at the end of this year, she’s teased the idea of joining her wrestling soulmate Mercedes Moné in AEW — as has Moné. That coinciding with her month-plus absence for WWE television spurred speculation, but then Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer and others noted that Bayley’s name was coming up on Raw a lot. That was taken as a credible sign Bayley wouldn’t be benched until her contract was up, and that WWE thought it could keep her in the fold. Now (Sept. 3), Mike Johnson reports on PWInsider Elite that WWE creative’s been pitching ideas for Bayley’s return. The expectation is she’ll be back on Raw within the next few weeks. Johnson doesn’t say that the 37-year-old four-time WWE Women’s World champ has inked a new deal. So while the decision to use her on television this fall is probably at least a sign negotiations are going well… that’s speculation, and I personally won’t be taking any more than that from this report. You, of course, are free to react however you want to react — provided you do so within our community guidelines. You can do so in the comments below, or via a longer take in The Feed!

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A major backstage update on Bayley's WWE contract status suggests that she will be sticking around WWE, and that she will be returning to TV soon