AJ Styles recently spoke with SI.com about various topics. Here are the highlights.
On wanting to wrestle Shawn Michaels at the Royal Rumble:
“I would love the opportunity to wrestle him,” said Styles. “I’d love to learn from him, but who’s to say if that’s going to happen. Right now, it’s all speculation and rumors that I’m finding out like everyone else is, but man, what a match that would be.”
On having a Bullet Club reunion with Finn Bálor, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson at the 2016 SummerSlam PPV event:
“I think that was special to sports entertainment, to know what we all did in Japan and how that brought all of us to WWE,” said Styles, who hinted that may have been foreshadowing a future storyline. “The Club thing kind of blew up, far bigger than any of us expected, so to give a little tease like that was planting a seed. Something could happen down the road, we just have to figure out when and where. It was actually very surprising, and a little bit painful, to see those guys go to Raw as I went to Smackdown,” said Styles. “We were in Japan for almost two years together, and when we got to WWE, we were riding together. Those guys were more than just my friends—they are my family. To have them go elsewhere was a little heartbreaking, but at the same time it gives them the opportunity to go off, on their own, and do what they do—get interview time as them, and AJ Styles gets his on Smackdown. It’s worked really great for Gallows, Anderson, and myself.”
