Backstage Reaction To AJ Styles Getting Busted Open Before His Match At WrestleMania

On Sunday night AJ Styles finally clashed with Edge during night 2 of WrestleMania 38, but Styles set social media ablaze before the match even started as people were talking about the fact that he somehow got busted open. It turns out that Styles hit his face on the stage as he was making his entrance which is why his face was bleeding while he was making his way down the ramp.

Pat McAfee also wrestled on the Grandest Stage of Them All on Sunday night, and he noted during an episode of the Pat McAfee Show that following AJ’s mishap with the set the WWE producers were trying to make sure that it didn’t happen again.

“I was walking to gorilla which is obviously the last stop before you go out, and four different producers were like, ‘when you go out there, the bottom of the entrance is like a star, make sure you get to the middle because it is sharp on the side there,’” McAfee said. “I was like ‘okay, yeah.’ They’re like ‘well, AJ literally just ran his face into the side of it. He’s bleeding right now.’ I was like ‘what?’ I was like ‘AJ Styles is bleeding right now?’ ‘Match hasn’t started and he’s bleeding, so we need you not to do that too. Okay, thank you so much.’ And I was like ‘you got it.’

“Then the next producer came ‘hey, when you go out there, there’s a slant. Make sure you get all the way to the middle.’ I’m like, ‘oh yeah, why’s that?’ Like, now I’m gassing. ‘Well AJ Styles just ran his face into it, so we need that not to happen.’ ‘Okay, thank you so much. You saved my life.’ So then I’m walking four more steps, another producer ‘hey, on your entrance, I don’t know if you’ve heard or not.’ ‘Yep, got it. Face thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.’”

Luckily for Pat McAfee he didn’t hit his face on the stage, and he ended up picking up a win over Austin Theory. However, McAfee then ended up losing a match to Vince McMahon then eating a Stunner courtesy of Steve Austin, but either way it’s probably safe to say that WrestleMania 38 is a night McAfee will remember for a long time.

H/T Wrestling Inc.