* Winning the Divas Championship at '''''Payback 2013''''', fulfilling a lifetime goal. That wasn't all though. Her victory came in a match against her (kayfabe former, real life current) best friend Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}}, and in one of the best-received Divas matches in years, receiving 3 stars from [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].
* '''''TLC 2012''''': Had enough of Wrestling/JohnCena's thoughtless toying with her affections and threw him off a ladder, leading Wrestling/DolphZiggler to win the match and retain his ''Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank'' briefcase for the World Heavyweight Championship. The pop from the crowd when she turned on Cena was deafening.
* Her epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the ''Series/TotalDivas'' cast on the 8/26/13 Monday Night Raw.
-->'''AJ:''' “Do you want to know what I see when I look in that ring? Honestly? A bunch of cheap, [[FlatCharacter interchangeable]], expendable, [[FauxActionGirl useless women]]. Women who have turned to reality television, because they just weren’t gifted enough to be actresses. And they just weren’t talented enough to be champion. I have done more in one year than all of you have done in your entire collective careers. I have saved your divas division, I have shattered glass ceilings, I have broken down doors. Why? So a bunch of ungrateful, stiff plastic mannequins can waltz on through without even as much as a ‘Thank You’?! [[DudeWheresMyRespect You guys can’t even go backstage, and shake my hand and look me in the eye because you know that I worked my entire life to get here.]] I gave my life to this, and you were just handed fifteen minutes of fame. I didn’t get here because I was cute, or because I came from some famous wrestling family, or because I sucked up to the right people. I got here because I am good. I earned this championship. No matter how many red carpets you guys want to walk, in your four-thousand dollar ridiculous heels, you will never be able to lace up my Chuck Taylor's. You are all worthless excuses for women, and you will never be able to touch me. And that is reality.”
** Her last line is probably even better, being equal parts a BadassBoast for herself, and a DareToBeBadass challenge to the Total Divas cast:
-->'''AJ:''' "[[BringIt Prove me wrong.]]"
** The even more awesome part about it is how she manages to win the crowd to her side despite the fact that AJ's the heel in the feud.
*** Like [[Wrestling/CMPunk her later husband's]] famous Pipe Bomb, it was arguably a WorkedShoot, and the exact same sentiment has been expressed for real by people like Wrestling/JimCornette in his infamous "women wrestlers vs hoes" rant.
* On the September 9, 2013 edition of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', while doing guest commentary, she runs circles around Wrestling/MichaelCole, Wrestling/JerryLawler and [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], but ''no one'' got it worse than Lawler:
-->'''AJ''': I have the date I won this title tattooed on the back of my neck! This is all I cared about.\\
'''Jerry Lawler''': So, uh, you got any other tattoos?\\
'''AJ''': I think I'm a little too old for you, Jerry, I'm 26. I know you like 'em younger.
** That was not only a reference to Jerry being a DirtyOldMan and wanting women younger than him (granted, Lawler's in his sixties, so he has some leeway there), but also him being accused in the past of being with [[JailbaitTaboo barely-legal girls]]. It also contains a touch of SelfDeprecation, since based on one of the examples on her [[Funny/AJLee Funny moments]] section, she knows she could be mistaken for younger because of her appearance—and takes it all in stride.
** Even better - Jerry just resorted to acting like a petulant child because he couldn't come up with a decent retort. Hell, he even said she was too ugly for him.
* It's more Funny than Awesome, but when accidentally tagged in against Wrestling/{{Kane}}, AJ beats him... [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment by skipping around him like a schoolgirl]], [[TheBigDamnKiss and then planting a HUGE kiss on the lips]], causing Kane [[VillainousBSOD to be utterly flabbergasted]], [[LetsYouAndHimFight forcibly tag in his partner]], [[VillainExitStageLeft and silently walk out of the arena]]. Either AJ [[IncorruptiblePurePureness was so damn sweet and cute]] it sent [[CardCarryingVillain Kane]] into a VillainousBSOD, or [[StalkerWithACrush SO]] [[MadLove DAMN]] [[CrazyIsCool CRAZY]] that '''[[EvenEvilHasStandards KANE]]''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere wanted to put as much distance between him and her as possible!]] Either way... [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu AJ Lee just sent]] '''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu KANE]]''' [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu PACKING FROM A MATCH!!!]]
** And even better- when Kane tags Bryan, he does it by carefully walking around AJ so at no point does he have his back to her. That's right, Kane was so freaked out that he wouldn't even turn his back on her for the five seconds it took to tag Bryan.
** Everything she does prior to that match counts as Awesome. While Bryan and Kane each walk out separately and get their themes played, AJ and Punk walk out together and only his theme is played, reinforcing the idea that she barely counts as a competitor. She spends the entire time up to getting tagged looking terrified, and the commenters keep talking about how having AJ on Punk's side doesn't make it a 2 vs 2 match, it's a 2 vs 1 with handicap match. Finally she gets pulled in to face Kane, walks up to him, still looking terrified... and then she smiles, and the whole match takes a turn into batfuck insane territory.
* Surpassing Maryse's record as longest-reigning Divas Champion at 213 days and counting. At Wrestling/WrestleMania 30, she had held the title for 295 days and successfully defended it against ''every other diva on the roster''. The next night on Raw? It takes someone she's never faced in Wrestling/{{Paige}} to lose the title.
* Her match against Kaitlyn on Raw in March 2013. Kaitlyn beats the crap out of her, they end up outside of the ring and Kaitlyn tries to spear her... and AJ simply moves aside and watches Kaitlyn spear herself on the barricade, knocking herself loopy and leaving her unable to continue the match. And AJ spends the entire time from the spear onwards [[PsychoticSmirk smiling]] as she goes back into the ring and lies down like she's watching TV.
* She won the Divas Battle Royale by very effectively PlayingPossum: early in the match, she gets kicked in the face and pretends to be knocked out until there's only one other contestant left, Wrestling/{{Layla}}. Layla thinks she's won until the ref tells her that to win, she must get every opponent out of the ring. So she does her best to haul an 'unconscious' AJ over the ropes... until AJ pulls away and kicks her out of the ring.
* Wrestling/PaulHeyman proposes to her, saying that he likes them young, dumb, uninhibited and ambitious. AJ's response is to pretend to consider the offer for several seconds... and then she slaps him and walks out.
* Back when she was dating Daniel Bryan, at one point [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KiGr1aZsuE in a match]] between him and Kane, she was watching outside the ring when Kane started brutally beating up Bryan. AJ's response was to ''jump onto Kane's back'' and start clawing at his eyes. It stopped Kane in his tracks until Bryan pulled her out of the ring.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIjpBEsKAaI AJ Lee Against The World]], a video released the day before [=WrestleMania=] 30. It can best be summed up as 'You guys think you can beat me? Bring it the fuck on, I'll take you all down.'
** And as it turned out, she wasn't lying... but [[DownerEnding sadly, it didn't last.]]
* AJ flatly telling Wrestling/VickieGuerrero to either fire her or shut the hell up.
* AJ refereeing Punk vs Bryan at Money In The Bank 2012. Once she gets back after accidentally getting hit by Punk, she picks up a chair, goes back into the ring, pretends to offer it to both men and then sets it down in the middle of the ring, steps back and reclines against the ropes, smiling smugly as they fight for it.
* Returning in epic fashion on the 6/30/14 Raw, taking the Divas Championship back from Paige in a similar BatmanGambit that garnered Paige the title, capped off with an IronicEcho slap!
* Her promos before and after a match with Brie Bella, the night after she lost the title to Nikki. Not only did she successfully blast the twins by pointing out that they had to work together to beat her (and even then it wasn't even in anything resembling a real match), she also told them that [[SuccessThroughSexAccusation "Talent isn't sexually transmitted".]]
* In real life, after Stephanie [=McMahon=] tweeted in support of Patricia Arquette, thanking her for fighting for women's rights, AJ tweeted Stephanie, essentially calling her a hypocrite for talking about fighting for women's rights when the Divas do just as much as the men and get paid a fraction of what the men get.
** Even better when you think about it is that WWE could ''not'' punish her for this like they have done with Wrestling/ZackRyder and the Colons, and other lower card talent complaining about their spot. If she'd received even the mildest depush from this, feminists, WWE fans, basically everyone would call them on it and create a PR black hole. Also of note is Darren Young doing the same regarding their tour of a homophobic country around the same time.