Jacob Fatu Says AJ Styles Encouraged Him To Not Wear A Shirt While Wrestling At 1/24 WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event

Jacob Fatu discusses encouragement he received from AJ Styles backstage at the last WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show.

On the January 24th show, Fatu would face off with Cody Rhodes in a singles match following Fatu’s return to WWE following an attack in October last year. At the event, Fatu would noticeably wrestling without a t-shirt, something that was new for Fatu in WWE.

While speaking to Busted Open in a new interview, Jacob Fatu shared how AJ Styles encouraged him to wrestle without a shirt at the January 24th event.

“I want to shout out AJ Styles. He seen me at Saturday Night’s Main Event, and he seen the transformation, and he was just like, ‘dude, are you freaking finna wear a shirt out there?’ I was just like, ‘yeah’, and he was like, ‘dude, you freaking got abs. I’d go out there with no shirt. What are you doing?’ So shout out to AJ, baby. You know what I mean? Congratulations on retirement, but it was because of him, man, why I took it- I was ashamed to take it off, and I was going to wrestle with no shirts. I just thought- I didn’t know. I wanted to get those complete, you know what I mean? But it was just the process of doing it, and, man, when The Phenomenal One says, ‘hey, man, I would do this,’ then, okay, I’m going to listen.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Fatu shared how many teeth he had removed during a recent dental procedure. You can read more about that here.

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