Article courtesy of Alfonso Castillo of Newsday.com. (alfonso.castillo@newsday.com)
Twenty-eight years after the inaugural event took place at Madison Square Garden, WrestleMania returns to the New York Metro area this Sunday.
But for nobody in WWE is WrestleMania 29 more of a homecoming than for AJ Lee.
“It’s possibly the most surreal feeling that I’ve ever experienced,” Lee, 26, said about being part of WrestleMania at MetLife Stadium — just 15 minutes away from the Union City, N.J., neighborhood where she grew up. “It makes you feel like, ‘Hey, I actually made it.’ ”