AJ Styles was lucky enough to have a long career inside the squared circle, but his in-ring career is now over as the former WWE Champion competed in his last match at the Royal Rumble when he was defeated by Gunther.
While talking about AJ Styles’ future on What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes, Triple H discussed The Phenomenal One’s new role with WWE while revealing what AJ said after his last match.
“At the end, AJ was like, ‘I don’t want to be done with the business. I want to be done wrestling.’ And I don’t think I’m betraying a confidence here. But even in his last match, he was telling me like, ‘I so know I’m done because I was out there in that last match thinking like, let’s just get it over with, I just want to get to the end.’
“He wants to participate in the business, right? But being an agent or a producer, it’s a different world. Being in what we do, there’s different fits for different people. AJ came in, he sat in on some creative meetings, he sat in on some production meetings. And I think he realized like, the writing thing’s not for me, the producer thing, I don’t think is for me. What I really like is getting to these young kids and spotting talent and then trying to help fan the flames of the little spark that’s there and try to make them into something more, the developmental side of it. So, great, let’s utilize him in that and grab those talents there.”