Last month on the WWE Royal Rumble, AJ Styles officially retired from in-ring competition after losing his career-threatening match to GUNTHER. “The Phenomenal One” has since revealed that it was his alternative exit on the event where he made his debut for the corporate, and he shared that he didn’t need to hang up his boots at WrestleMania.
Styles revealed earlier this week that he initially planned on retiring at WrestleMania 41 against Logan Paul, but through the latest edition of “Raw Recap,” he claimed that WWE’s biggest event has lost a few of its magic and didn’t feel that a feud against the YouTube sensation would’ve been the correct sendoff.
“It was getting back from an injury to WrestleMania to a match that did not, to me, have much construct and WrestleMania, listen, I’m sorry to say, was probably the most prestigious PLE or pay-per-view, whatever you wanna call it. But to me, it’s type of lost its luster a bit of bit. But so far as the Royal Rumble, that is special to me, because that is where I made my debut. So to give you the chance to finish where I began, it’s poetic.”
During Styles’ tribute show this past Monday on “WWE Raw,” he was informed by The Undertaker that he can be inducted into the 2026 WWE Hall Of Fame. To date, Styles and Stephanie McMahon are the one two names announced for this yr’s class.
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