Tommaso Ciampa: AJ Styles Is Just A Standup Guy, He’s Earned The Right To Do Whatever He Wants At This Point

Tommaso Ciampa speaks on AJ Styles in the wake of his WWE in ring career coming to an end.

Since losing in a retirement match to Gunther at the WWE Royal Rumble event earlier this year, many fans have wondered if this would lead to Styles making the jump to AEW, with those hopes taking a major blow on this week’s Monday Night RAW, as Styles’ induction into the WWE Hall of Fame was announced.

While speaking to 98.5 Kygo in a new interview, Tommaso Ciampa addressed AJ Styles, noting that he has earned the right to do whatever he wants at this point.

“You can never do a best ever, it’s impossible, it’s all opinion, but he’s in the conversation, and that’s all you can hope to do as a performer, be in the conversation. I got to wrestle him a few times, a couple times on live events, I got to have one televised match with him to determine the US championship contender, and that was probably the most fun I’ve had, in a televised (match), but I didn’t get many of those good singles televised matches. So that was a ton of fun, and he’s just one of them guys who even behind the scenes, just a standup guy. You know what I mean? Like he’s not trying to backstab anyone. He does it right. He works hard. He lets his work speak for itself. He’s earned the right to do whatever he wants at this point, and if that means he hangs it up and does the family thing, good for him. If that means he just takes a break and then decides, hey, I’m gonna do one off here, one off here, good for him. Whatever he decides, man, he’s earned it. He’s proven to be the best everywhere he’s went. TNA, New Japan, Ring of Honor, WWE. If he ever does it at AEW, he’s immediately gonna be one of the best. There’s no hesitation in that, right? There’s a lot of dream matchups. So whatever he decides to do though, good for him, man. But kudos.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Ciampa spoke about the importance of presentation. You can read more about that here.

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