AJ Styles Says He Originally Planned To Retire At WrestleMania 41, Changed His Mind After Foot Injury
AJ Styles originally planned to retire at WrestleMania.
Styles said goodbye to WWE at the Royal Rumble event in January, as he lost a career-ending match to Gunther.
Almost three weeks later, WWE uploaded a farewell tour vlog for Styles to their YouTube channel. One clip captured some comments from ‘The Phenomenal One’ before his Rumble match.
“Everybody wants to retire at WrestleMania, the biggest show of the year that we do. I was going to do exactly that, but I just came back from an injury that was supposed to retire me. It retires most. Once I got healed up and was comfortable enough running and doing what I need to do to be AJ Styles, it just didn’t feel right to come back for two months just to retire. It didn’t seem right and I thought, what a way to be able to leave on the pay-per-view where you debuted. Hopefully, at the end of this match, I stand up on my own two feet and I throw up the P1 that is on my gloves one more time, and I walk.”
Styles suffered a foot injury in October 2024 that kept him out of action until the Royal Rumble match in February 2025. He ended up wrestling Logan Paul at WrestleMania 41.
Back on February 18, PWInsider reported on AJ Styles being spotted at the WWE Performance Center. Check out our full article by clicking here.
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