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AJ Styles

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
745 total appearances

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Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

And his like, ah, I don't know. I'm in like, You know what? Now, I'm pretty sure I wasn't at Raw the next time. But somebody convinced him that it would be a good idea if I came to Raw the next time. He did not care. A lot of people don't know this. He did not like AJ Styles for whatever reason. I'm sure I gave him a lot of reasons. I'm not the tallest guy. I have a southern accent.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

There's several things that he could hate about AJ Styles. I think that Monday I had a match.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

There's several things that he could hate about AJ Styles. I think that Monday I had a match.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

I had imagined that. I was trying to give them what I thought he wanted, a baby face, smiling, doing all this stuff, doing a cool little baby face flip to the outside. I think it was something like that. But he's like, as I came back, he's like, I got a thousand guys that can do what you do. I got all those guys. he said he wanted to see a pit bull. And I was like, oh.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

I had imagined that. I was trying to give them what I thought he wanted, a baby face, smiling, doing all this stuff, doing a cool little baby face flip to the outside. I think it was something like that. But he's like, as I came back, he's like, I got a thousand guys that can do what you do. I got all those guys. he said he wanted to see a pit bull. And I was like, oh.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

And that kind of got me excited. I was like, oh, okay. As I said before, I know that guy. That's going to be easy. I didn't tell him that, but I was like, I know that guy. Let me be that guy. And sure enough, the next week, I think I was on Miz TV. Several people came up to me and said, Lay it in. Put it in there. I'm like, what?

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

And that kind of got me excited. I was like, oh, okay. As I said before, I know that guy. That's going to be easy. I didn't tell him that, but I was like, I know that guy. Let me be that guy. And sure enough, the next week, I think I was on Miz TV. Several people came up to me and said, Lay it in. Put it in there. I'm like, what?

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

What has Miz done that he's pissed so many people off that they want me to hurt him? And it wasn't just like one higher-up guy. It was a couple of them. And I was like, am I going to beat up Miz? I have no reason to. I was like, nah. I decided... I'm not going to hurt him. I'm not going to do that. But it was very intense, that moment that we had together.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

What has Miz done that he's pissed so many people off that they want me to hurt him? And it wasn't just like one higher-up guy. It was a couple of them. And I was like, am I going to beat up Miz? I have no reason to. I was like, nah. I decided... I'm not going to hurt him. I'm not going to do that. But it was very intense, that moment that we had together.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

And I think that's what Vince, it was a test to see if I was going to be

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

And I think that's what Vince, it was a test to see if I was going to be

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

like a pit bull like just freaking coming after you nothing you can do to stop me i'm getting you and that's kind of what i gave him and it was at that moment which took off and then from there was stuff with jericho right jericho and then into sena uh was it roman was it roman was it roman you you know better than me well it was it was 2016 um was it i want to say uh It may have been Roman.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

like a pit bull like just freaking coming after you nothing you can do to stop me i'm getting you and that's kind of what i gave him and it was at that moment which took off and then from there was stuff with jericho right jericho and then into sena uh was it roman was it roman was it roman you you know better than me well it was it was 2016 um was it i want to say uh It may have been Roman.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

Jericho, it wasn't Roman. Because I won the right to wrestle Roman by beating Jericho. And it was a four-way match. And Jericho, I think I beat him to get that opportunity to wrestle Roman, number one contender. So Jericho, Roman, Cena. Beat up John Cena. You know, we tried to get a shirt made, and Vince was like, absolutely not. I'm like, why?

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

Jericho, it wasn't Roman. Because I won the right to wrestle Roman by beating Jericho. And it was a four-way match. And Jericho, I think I beat him to get that opportunity to wrestle Roman, number one contender. So Jericho, Roman, Cena. Beat up John Cena. You know, we tried to get a shirt made, and Vince was like, absolutely not. I'm like, why?

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

Yeah. So, yeah. We tried to get the shirt out there. He said, absolutely. I thought it was going to be good.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

Yeah. So, yeah. We tried to get the shirt out there. He said, absolutely. I thought it was going to be good.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

That'd be great to see. I would love to have it, for sure. It'd be fun, honestly. I think that there's something about it. You can't explain it. Why him and I, Joe... So well together. I don't know what it is because we're definitely not the same in any kind of way. It just works. The first time I got in the ring with him, it was like, wow, dude, that was cool.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

That'd be great to see. I would love to have it, for sure. It'd be fun, honestly. I think that there's something about it. You can't explain it. Why him and I, Joe... So well together. I don't know what it is because we're definitely not the same in any kind of way. It just works. The first time I got in the ring with him, it was like, wow, dude, that was cool.

Insight with Chris Van Vliet
AJ Styles On Retiring Soon, His Phenomenal Career in WWE & TNA, The Undertaker, John Cena

So, yeah, I would love the opportunity to work with Cena again.