AJ Styles recently recalled a hilarious incident from a 2016 episode of WWE SmackDown where he was crotched on the top rope during a match with Dean Ambrose.
Styles remained caught in that position all the way into a dark match following the main card.
During a recent Fanatics live signing over WrestleMania 41 weekend, Styles stated that there was no specific reason for that spot and that he was simply having fun. He said,
“I don’t know why I did that, I’m gonna be honest. I don’t know. I was feeling good. Not exactly the way you’d think, but I thought it would be funny if I stayed there the whole time.”
He continued, “I don’t know that John [Cena] was happy that I stayed there, but I did. I was just having fun. That’s what we’re supposed to do. What good is wrestling if you’re not having fun? I was having fun so I stayed there and let everybody enjoy it. No good reason. Just did.”
WWE is launching a docuseries called WWE: Unreal, which is set to premiere this summer on Netflix.
The series aims to provide an inside look at WWE’s creative processes and behind-the-scenes operations.
During a recent appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman shared his thoughts on the docuseries.
He said, “I don’t have to love it. It’s not for me to love. I’m a very old-school guy. I go back to the theory of heels settle in the heat, babyface blows the comeback. It’s that simple of an equation. The good guy is the good guy because heroism will prevail the bad guy is the bad guy because on any given day, he is unable to beat the good guy and therefore must cheat to do so. These are the fundamental and rudimentary thoughts on my mindset towards the industry, but I’m also very accepting of where the industry has gone and will go, and the culture and society that push it forward. Do I like walking through the curtain and there is a camera right in my face documenting how I come out of the character that you see on TV? No, I don’t like it. Am I going to fight against it? No, I’m not going to fight against it because those cameras are going to be there whether I like it or not. I’m accepting of the fact that this is a change in the industry and I better figure out how to capitalize on that, expand from it, and be part of it or it’s going to leave me behind. That’s about being relevant. If they do ‘WWE: Unreal,’ and every time they say, ‘We’re going to mic you up for this meeting.’ ‘No, no, no, you’re not going to put a microphone on me. You’re not going to put a camera on me when I’m talking creative behind the scenes,’ then I won’t be on WWE: Unreal, and it’s going to move on without me. It’s there. That train is leaving the station. You can go with the train and into the future of this industry or you can stay behind like these old timers and go, ‘Back in my day, this is how we did it.’ It ain’t your day anymore, and it ain’t your day because you refuse to go into the future with an industry that is moving at a rapid pace.”
