It’s been a mixed year for WWE’s Stephanie Walker in 2026. Despite entering the year as the WWE Women’s World Champion, and briefly regaining the title in the fallWalker’s year has largely been about him time missed due to injuryincluding a hiatus from April to August before being shelved again after Money in the Bank due to illness. On Monday “Wrestling Observer Radio”, Dave Meltzer had some good and bad news regarding Walker, confirming that he’s good to go, but it’s still unclear when WWE will bring him back to television.
“He’s healthy,” Meltzer said. “He worked on house shows. He wasn’t on the show tonight, but he’s cleaned up and everything like that… He’ll be back on TV when they figure out what to do to get him back on TV. They probably wrote this TV.”
This past weekend, Wacker worked three times, teaming with IYO SKY and Lola Vice, defeating Fatal Influence twice and defeating Jaycee Jane by DQ in a United States Women’s Championship match. Since she returned to live action last weekend, some, including Meltzer, wondered if Vaquer would return on last night’s edition of Raw, especially after IYO SKY revealed she would be teaming up with a mystery partner to face The Judgment Day’s Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez.
Instead, SKY would team up with Becky Lynch, who was returning from a few weeks off, and the duo defeated Rodriguez and Perez. Lynch won earning a shot at the Women’s World Championship against Liv Morgan at WWE Survivor Series; It would be Lynch’s third attempt to win the championship in the past month, following Morgan’s defeat of Lynch and Wacker to win the title at Money in the Bank, and Lynch’s DQ victory over Morgan on the October 26 episode of Raw.
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