AJ Styles has effectively retired as an in-ring competitor with WWE but quickly bounced back by signing a new contract for a backstage, non-wrestling role. Today, he revealed some details on some of his new duties.
On the first episode of his new podcast, Phenomenally Retro, Styles indicated that he would be involved in identifying and developing new talent in WWE's system:
"I’m on the internet and I’m checking out talent because it’s kind of going to be part of my job with WWE now. I’m looking for talent and I’m looking to see what I can do, if I can do anything for them, if they can get better, you know, little things like that. Because if there is a possibility of them maybe getting a WWE ID [contract] or something like that, then hopefully I can facilitate and get that to happen."
"So as of right now it’s a little slow, but there are phone calls that are going to have to be made to make sure my job is done and it’s not just with indie talent. It’ll be NXT talent and it may mean main roster talent as well. I’m gonna go to Seattle for the next Monday Night Raw, talk with talent. Who knows, sometimes you need to talk to somebody to see how they’re feeling and maybe they want to go down to the PC and they wanna work on some stuff. The morale, if I can help make sure it’s still there in a good way, I want to be that guy."
