{"id":332697,"date":"2026-05-11T05:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=332697"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:40:03","slug":"aj-styles-reacts-to-asukas-apparent-wwe-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/aj-styles-reacts-to-asukas-apparent-wwe-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Styles Reacts To Asuka&#8217;s Apparent WWE Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Following Asuka and IYO SKY\u2019s emotional match at WWE Backlash 2026, more WWE stars proceed to point out support for The Empress of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>At WWE Backlash 2026, IYO SKY defeated Asuka in a highly competitive singles match. After the bout, the 2 shared an embrace, resulting in speculation from fans about Asuka\u2019s future in WWE. Several wrestlers later paid tribute to her online, while Big E. also discussed Asuka\u2019s status through the post-show.<\/p>\n<p>Now, AJ Styles has weighed in as well. Taking to social media, Styles praised Asuka and made it clear that he believes her legacy in WWE is already secure. He wrote,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t know the facts, but I do know @wwe_asuka shall be a Hall of Famer.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Asuka is widely thought to be probably the most completed women in WWE history, with accolades that include multiple World Championship reigns, Royal Rumble and Money within the Bank victories, and an undefeated streak that defined much of her early WWE run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYKvX3ACiIp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you might have any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you just\u2019d wish to send in for us to post (full credit shall be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"7624351a17041d262125362f171e19195815191b\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Asuka and IYO SKY\u2019s emotional match at WWE Backlash 2026, more WWE stars proceed to point out support for The Empress of Tomorrow. At WWE Backlash 2026, IYO SKY defeated Asuka in a highly competitive singles match. After the bout, the 2 shared an embrace, resulting in speculation from fans about Asuka\u2019s future in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[26533,34042,6833,1185,13446,6221],"class_list":["post-332697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-apparent","tag-asukas","tag-departure","tag-reacts","tag-styles","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332700,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332697\/revisions\/332700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}