AJ Styles reveals new WWE role following retirement
AJ Styles has revealed what he’s doing for WWE now.
The future WWE Hall of Famer explained his new duties on the premiere episode of his podcast Phenomenally Retro. Although the podcast’s focus is on Styles’ love of video games, he did touch on what his new role in WWE is following his retirement at the Royal Rumble, and it involves helping talent.
“I’m on the internet and I’m checking out talent because it’s kind of going to be part of my job with WWE now. I’m looking for talent and I’m looking to see what I can do, if I can do anything for them, if they can get better, you know, little things like that,” he explained. “Because if there is a possibility of them maybe getting a WWE ID [contract] or something like that, then hopefully I can facilitate and get that to happen.”
Beyond scouting talent, Styles’ role will also involve talking to NXT and main roster talent, just to see how they’re doing morale wise.
“So as of right now it’s a little slow, but there are phone calls that are going to have to be made to make sure my job is done and it’s not just with indie talent. It’ll be NXT talent and it may mean main roster talent as well. I’m gonna go to Seattle for the next Monday Night Raw, talk with talent. Who knows, sometimes you need to talk to somebody to see how they’re feeling and maybe they want to go down to the PC and they wanna work on some stuff. The morale, if I can help make sure it’s still there in a good way, I want to be that guy,” he continued.
In the weeks following his retirement, speculation mounted regarding Styles’ future. But it was recently reported that Styles had signed a new contract with WWE where he would continue with the company in a backstage role.
Bryan Rose is an editor from California that has been covering professional wrestling for well over a decade. He officially joined F4WOnline as an editor in 2017.