PWInsiderElite.com has revealed more information about the ongoing issues between WWE and Alexa Bliss.
As reported earlier, WWE informed its Creative Team to exclude Bliss from any upcoming storylines, and her planned return at Raw in San Jose, CA, was canceled. Sources confirmed the issue stems from a contractual disagreement.
Bliss has been pushing for a new contract with better terms, while WWE insists on her returning under her existing deal, which was extended to account for her time away from the company. The initial plan was for Bliss to make a surprise return at the 1/13 Raw on Netflix taping in San Jose, eventually becoming a regular fixture on the Raw brand.
However, just before the San Jose event, Bliss’s representatives contacted WWE, requesting to renegotiate her contract before her return. Bliss sought a new deal with enhanced perks, but WWE refused and instead canceled her return plans, freezing all creative ideas involving her character.
The disagreement has persisted since then, and WWE adjusted its plans by moving the Wyatt Sicks storyline to Smackdown.
Bliss’s last match was at the 2023 Royal Rumble, where she lost to Bianca Belair. Since then, she has had her first child and faced health challenges. Recently, Bliss shared on social media that she has returned to her pre-pregnancy weight. WWE had reportedly expected her to return during WrestleMania season, starting with the Royal Rumble.
On 1/14, the day after she was initially scheduled to return, Bliss removed all mentions of WWE from her social media bios, further highlighting the tension between the two sides.
How do you have Alexa Bliss, one of your most marketable wrestlers on the roster, and have no plans for them?
They did have plans for her up-to-and-including a few weeks ago as it says. ‘Plans’ have been in the works for months now for her to return and be joining the Sick6 in some capacity, but due to all her sick time, pregnancy time, injury time, whatever she has a bunch of time on her current contract left (it being extended over the years).
Now she wants to return but have more money/perks at the last moment. Sorry as it is to say for Alexa but fulfill your existing contract first. WWE does want to use her (unlike TK and Fenix/Ricky), but she’s trying to big-man them and get a better contract first while she’s still already under an existing contract that isn’t close to complete yet, and seemingly bringing it up right before she was due to return which is shady as shit.
This is the kind of move someone who knows their worth pulls when they’re 100% hot, Alexa has been sitting on the shelf 2 years, I don’t think she’s gonna be getting what she wants here.
I’m going to take a wild guess that “enhanced perks” means more time to be with family, which I’m totally in support of. But yeah, she should wrap up her current contract first.