Speaking on a recent edition of the “Talk’N Shop” podcast, recently retired WWE star AJ Styles shared which current wrestlers he would have liked the chance to face within the ring. Styles specifically mentioned PENTA and Rey Fenix, noting that each are actually a part of WWE’s fundamental roster and would have been exciting opponents for him.
Styles also spoke about mentoring younger talent, explaining that when wrestlers come to him for advice, he believes there aren’t any incorrect questions. He emphasized that asking questions and learning from experienced performers is a very important a part of growing within the business.
You may try some highlights from the podcast below:
On who he never got the chance to face: “PENTA’s up there. Yeah, simply because I never had the chance to do it, you already know, and he’s such an important guy. He’s so good. I’d like to been in a position to do this. But there’s at all times going to be a pair guys that be like, ‘Oh man, dang it. I missed that one. I missed that one. I missed that one.’ Yeah, Rey’s definitely one other one I wish I’d have been in a position to get within the ring with. Like, those guys are freaking — they’re so freaking good.”
On giving advice and teaching younger wrestlers: “So it there’s not any incorrect questions. It doesn’t matter how latest you’re to this entertainment business. Just ask the query, dude. Because sometimes I don’t think like a fan, and at that time of their profession, they still are. All of us are. So, just ask questions because there was a time not too way back, like possibly a pair months ago, I took my son to an indie match to only watch. Yeah. And a move was being done and I knew what was occurring. Yeah. But he had no idea because they hadn’t done it before. He hadn’t seen it before. And it could just dawned on me like, ‘Oh, wow.’ That, you already know, a whole lot of times we forget that there’s at all times latest fans on the market.
“So we’ve to sometimes after they don’t know our stuff ensure that we do it at the very least once in order that it could actually be counted afterward. You recognize we ignore like a straightforward up and over. It’s because before that, he threw us within the corner and freaking tore our guts out by putting a shoulder in it. So the following time it happens if the up and over happens and he takes the buckle, after which we will get on it. That’s you already know what I’m saying? That’s the things we forget in regards to the small things.”
While GUNTHER has taken loads of pride in defeating John Cena in what was billed as Cena’s final match, much of his bragging in regards to the victory has simply been to generate heat. In point of fact, GUNTHER admitted that he didn’t grow up closely following Cena’s profession and due to this fact didn’t experience lots of the moments that made Cena such a serious figure in wrestling.
Speaking on Cody Rhodes’ “What Do You Wanna’ Talk About?” podcast, GUNTHER explained that the match almost felt routine for him—something Rhodes described as feeling like “one other day on the office.” He said,
“It almost felt more intense than WrestleMania that day. Backstage, I could tell. And for me, I at all times catch myself in those moments because I’ve never made a secret about it — I wasn’t an enormous WWE guy after I first began wrestling. I used to be at all times an enormous nerd for Japanese wrestling and even Indian wrestling. That’s what I followed, especially after I was younger, around 18, 19, and into my early 20s.”
“A variety of those big memories that got here with John, I didn’t really pass though,” he said. “I used to be reading results and things like that. So I caught myself in the midst of this case—the emotional stone that I’m—while everyone else was very worked up. But for my very own profit, it was great to be the guy who could pull the rug out from under everybody.”
“I believe until the day of the match, I possibly said hello to him twice. That was all of the interaction we ever had.”
“It was the most important thing I’ve done in my profession — the primary time I used to be a part of something with that sort of magnitude, where you may really feel how much it affected everybody.”
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