-- After dropping her Women's title against Liv Morgan and coming up short in a rematch, Becky Lynch has been on a hiatus for a few months which reportedly coincided with the end of her contract with WWE and made her a free agent. However, there appears to be some intriguing signs that perhaps Lynch isn't actually a free agent and could have re-signed a new deal with WWE before going on her leave of absence.
-- The WrestleVotes Radio account noted that Lynch's name still appears on WWE's internal roster sheet, months after she seemingly left. That in itself is strange as the company is often very quick to update that list when a wrestler either leaves or even if they are sidelined long-term with an injury. Their report threw out the idea that because Lynch continues to be listed on the roster sheet, it's worth wondering if she signed a new contract with WWE before going on hiatus with both sides playing up that she is a free agent and that her status in WWE is up in the air, ultimately leading to a surprise return.
"We’ve confirmed that Becky Lynch, her name appears on the roster. Still to this day, her name appears on the weekly roster that comes out with the television script each Monday and Friday. Does that mean she has signed a new deal? Officially, we can’t say that, but what we can say is that she’s still in the mix. She’s still considered part of the team, so to speak, and we’ll see where this goes. But we do know that her name is still part of the company."
"It’s a very intriguing thing, because I had heard about this months ago that when she took her hiatus as Triple H has called it on hiatus, her name never really came off the roster. So it was one of the things where, okay, well, did they take it? Did they forget to take it off the internal roster? Is it there for moral support because they want to see Becky Lynch in the future?"
"But as time went on and Becky Lynch’s name remains on the internal roster that the team gets each and every show, it was something I was checking in on and heard, yeah, it looks like she’s still there. It looks like her name’s still there."
"So did she ever truly become a free agent? Is my first question. Did she ever, you know, have her contract lapse? Was there time added Was there a deal done before she took her hiatus? Like, ‘Hey, let’s get this deal done. You go take your hiatus. We’ll make it feel like you’re a free agent, and then when the time’s right, we’ll have you come back and surprise the world.’"
"I think that might be the case, but the fact that it remained on the roster is very, very telling to me, and very intriguing. If it’s just an oversight, I can’t believe it is of how buttoned up WWE is about all these sort of things. You see when guys get injured right away. I know there was one. Kiana James was taken off the roster, which is reported by numerous outlets, for whatever injury she was going through. So when those things happen, they’re on top of it. So for the fact that Becky Lynch has been on that roster sheet for as long as she has, tells me that she’s in the fold and in the mix moving here."
