AJ Styles Names Five Attributes That He Is Looking For While Scouting Talent For WWE
AJ Styles explains his scouting process.
Since retiring from in-ring action, Styles has openly spoke about his new scouting role for WWE. Now, ‘The Phenomenal One’ is going into detail about what he is looking for during the process.
“To give advice, I just got to figure out what the qualities — I don’t know if there’s ever been attributes that we have in wrestling that we want everybody to have. There’s athletic ability, there’s charisma, there’s wrestling alone, talking on the mic, drive. That’s the five I have as of right now. That might change, but in my head, I don’t need you to have all five. If you have all five, then just go straight to the main roster. Even guys on the main roster, including myself, I don’t think I had all five. I could do all five, but I don’t think I had a perfect 10 on all five. I think it’s very difficult. But, they have some qualities that you can build on that we can send to the performance center. We can do better at your lowest one. If it’s mic work, we can work on that. If it’s charisma, we can give you the kind of gimmick that maybe you can now get some charisma through because sometimes, you don’t understand the character and you’re like not feeling it. There’s been many guys that changed into a different character and you’re like, ‘Where has this guy been?’” Styles said on the latest episode of the Phenomenally Retro podcast.
Styles proceeded to name Bray Wyatt and Dominik Mysterio as examples of wrestlers that succeeded when they changed their gimmick and/or presentation.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Styles talked about fan behavior during WrestleMania week. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
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