Report: AJ Styles Raw appearance a Vince McMahon call

[cjh]

PW Insider is reporting that AJ Styles was not originally scheduled to be on Raw last night, but Vince McMahon decided to have him included.  McMahon did not change anything else on the show.

I wonder if Styles knew of the plan by Saturday afternoon and just traveled to Raw directly from Saudi Arabia or if he flew home first, then went to Raw?

[Rudy Gobert Weather Machine]

DON'T YOU LEAVE MY PITBULL ON THE BENCH PAUL

[The Kevstaaa]

Inconsistent brand split rules are very consistent and on-brand for Vince.

[A Little Doo Doo]

AJ was just using one of the WILDCARDS.

[The Rick Jericho]

McMahon reviewing the script last night.

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

[Gerard Gerard]

He's not in the weeds or anything, except when he is.

[sarkerpolseng]

I read in a few reports that AJ flew home from Saudi Arabia and then had to fly to Buffalo on short notice to make the appearance.

Ridiculous.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

May 30, 2023 18:01:13 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

AJ was just using one of the WILDCARDS.

You get three wildcards a week... except on days you don't ... but tag teams can count as one... sometimes ... but on the fourth week of the year when the blood moon rises anyone can appear on any show unless you have a Z in your name in which case you must be sacrificed.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Hugely inconveniencing AJ entirely to facilitate a pointless tag match that amounted to nothing on a show that's rating will likely be dire regardless is certainly a choice a reasonable human being would make.

[King Devitt and the Woke Mob]

Vince was just passive aggressively punishing AJ for saying the new world title was a consolation prize.

[Banjo Is Broken]

I heard Vince originally wanted AJ to wrestle in a diaper and get squashed by Rhea Ripley.

Or I might have imagined that all on my own, I'm not sure.

[PTBartman]

May 31, 2023 2:11:13 GMT -5 Banjo Is Broken said:

I heard Vince originally wanted AJ to wrestle in a diaper and get squashed by Rhea Ripley.

Or I might have imagined that all on my own, I'm not sure.

I've imagined that before. Smoked a cigarette afterwards too.

[schma]

So, was he worried that people wouldn't take the Roman cheats too hard so we made a new belt title seriously? They had to have AJ come and put Seth over because we all know this is a bad joke and a consolation prize?

[booman]

May 31, 2023 1:13:22 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

May 30, 2023 18:01:13 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

AJ was just using one of the WILDCARDS.

You get three wildcards a week... except on days you don't ... but tag teams can count as one... sometimes ... but on the fourth week of the year when the blood moon rises anyone can appear on any show unless you have a Z in your name in which case you must be sacrificed.

Steiner math?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Given AJ's appearance turned out to be completely pointless in the end, yeah, I can believe this was Vince's fault lol