Top WWE Superstar "The Phenomenal One" AJ Styles recently appeared on the My Love Letter To Wrestling program, where he spoke about a number of topics such as how there were no plans for him to appear on the episode of RAW following his WWE debut at the 2016 Royal Rumble Event and how there were no plans for him at all because Vince McMahon had no idea who he was.
AJ Styles said:
“I’m not sure how I snuck in there. I think maybe the success of the BULLET CLUB helped for sure with maybe some of the (WWE) writers if they asked him, ‘What do you think about A.J. Styles?’ I don’t how it worked out but I can tell you this, Vince McMahon had no idea who I was. There’s no way because he had no plans for me after the Royal Rumble. I wasn’t supposed to be at Raw the next day.”
AJ Styles also spoke about the chat he had with Vince McMahon as well as how that chat eventually led to him earning the trust of Vince and proving himself to be the pitbull Vince wanted him to be.
AJ Styles said:
“Yeah, so he just thought it was a fluke that I got the pop that I did in Orlando and I didn’t need to be on TV but I was and I had a very basic match because I thought that Vince wanted to see a babyface be a babyface. He brung me back and he sat me down and I’m so grateful that he did, he says, ‘Listen, I got a thousand guys that can do what you do’ and I said, ‘Hmm.’ He goes, ‘I need a Pitbull’ and I go, ‘Oh, oh! I know that guy’ and that’s exactly the guy I was in New Japan and everywhere else. So it was easy for me to come out and be that guy that he wanted to see and that’s when I think I gained his trust. Like okay, this guy sees my vision and is gonna go out there and show it and so, yeah, that’s the way that worked.”
You can check out AJ Styles' comments at this link. H/T to PostWrestling for transcribing the above quotes.
