On Saturday, Amy “Lita” Dumas will return for her first singles match in WWE since 2012. That was a quick squash match on Raw against Heath Slater, and prior to that, her last match took place at Survivor Series in 2006, which ended her iconic run in WWE.
A member of the WWE Hall of Fame, Dumas has taken part in two Royal Rumble matches over the past four years, and even had a tag match at the all-women Evolution pay-per-view in 2018. But it has been more than a decade since she has embarked on a match like the one this Saturday against Becky Lynch.
Lynch is one of the most electric stars in all of wrestling, and she is a pioneer for women’s wrestling—just like Lita was during the peak of her career. Lita played an integral role in the first three main events on Raw featuring women. She wrestled Trish Stratus on Raw in 2004, closing out the show as they became the first women to have that last segment without any involvement from men. Lynch helped main-event WrestleMania 35, the first time women closed out WWE’s signature pay-per-view.
