Did GUNTHER Really Retire AJ Styles? | Royal Rumble Aftermath
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What is the premise of the episode and who are the hosts?
Welcome to the Bust Open Podcast. Along with Justin Labar, I'm Jonathan Hood. And on today's show, we discuss AJ Styles losing to Gunther in his retirement match. Is AJ really retiring? Find out next on the Busted Open Podcast.
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Justin, we did not get a smile, but we did get a grimace uh from the sleeper, uh, from AJ Styles across his face, the mop hair across his face, a little bit of grimace underneath that mop, uh, because that was all for AJ Styles. Uh just one one note. So our our executive producer, Susumu. Texted me. yesterday and said, Let me know if you want to be able to for me to put together like memories of AJ Styles, some of his great matches from New Japan, T and A. We know him as a TNA legend and WWE. Let me know because now AJ Styles is retired. And the reason why I did not respond to that text is because, well, I don't think that that's necessary now. Maybe at the end of the year we at It's as necessary to put together a nice package because AJ Styles
R did lose to Gunther, but also he was almost ready to take off those P1 gloves and decide, no, I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna get on the second rope and just thank the people. Because I got a feeling that we didn't need that special montage for AJ Styles because I got a feeling we're gonna see AJ Styles again, even though he retired in WWE.
Yeah, I tend to agree with you. I uh especially Especially once we saw the glove gimmick. Um Yes. Um Yeah. Yeah, yeah so this is interesting, Jay Hud. And that's kinda You know, goes into our same conversation we just had uh uh on before the break about WWE then and now and wording and using names. Um A few more names by the way that W be kept of guys came from AEW, Penta, White Phoenix. So just keep my keeping my argument there. Um They They They kept wording this. And it was said very boldly by Gunther when this whole match was made. To have a match again and you re but you retire. That that's a stipulation. You retire. You know this J Hood. If it was a situation of you know, it it's if it's a situation of Well, you're not retiring, but it's time for you to leave the territory.
Your contract's up, your deals up, whatever. Then it's loser leaves WWE. Or you leave the company. But they explicitly have never worded it like that. So I find it interesting that they have been wording as you are going to retire. We see what we see at the rumble, but like you, I agree, I don't think I've seen the last AJ Styles match. And that last match will probably happen this year in twenty four six, but it ain't gonna be but it it it's but it's happening. And But it's just confusing to me because What WWE put all this I mean granted it it wasn't the main event or anything, it was it was it was on technically it's the undercar of the Ro of the Royal Rumble event, but would WWE put the trouble would they put Gunther out there, would they do all this?
Knowing AJ's going to then pop up. It's it's one thing if AJ says, I'm gonna have my last match of T and A because that's that's where I had that's where I made my bones. That'd be one thing. And obviously, you know, that's that that's th that's a friendly relationship. So that's it's one thing. But God forbid if he's to pop up an AEW. Would they be doing all this? No one in the back of the mind. Hey, he we're gonna give him this retirement send off at Rumble, but then he's gonna pop up in two months here. At this place. Like and and then on and then and then on AJ's side of it, I don't know AJ Styles as well. I've only interviewed him a few times, so I can't speak to the man's character or whatever, but
I have a hard time I don't know, like would he allow all this? Would he allow the fans to get invested in a retirement match?
Did Gunther really force AJ Styles into retirement?
Lou said retirement match. But then would he leave the company and then go pop up somewhere else? I I I don't I just If it was worded differently, I'd say, Yeah, fair game. It's it's it's it's it's wrestling one on one. Fair game. Loser head he's he's loser head to leave, he's leaving the territory. But they keep saying retiring.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the premise of the episode and who are the hosts?
0:00–3:57
2
Did Gunther really force AJ Styles into retirement?
3:57–8:42
3
Will we see AJ Styles compete again after his “retirement” match?
8:42–13:06
4
How does WWE handle “loser leaves town” stipulations like John Moxley’s departure?
13:06–29:11