AJ Styles was recently interviewed on Corey Graves’ podcast, After The Bell. During this, he spoke about WWE moving him from RAW to Smackdown. He ended up explaining why moving away from RAW has been good for him.
Here is what Styles said (h/t to Fightful for the quotes below):
“Doing something different is good for me. I needed a change. Losing Gallows & Anderson really hurt me. Getting away from Raw helps me get over it — I don’t know if I’ll get over it, but it helps change the atmosphere around me and to do something different. My whole time on Raw was basically with them. To get away from that and get to SmackDown, where I’ve had a lot of success, it’s a good thing,”
Styles also says that he feels like he let down Anderson and Gallows:
“I brought their names to WWE and when they got released, I immediately felt responsible for them because I helped them get here and I wanted them to stay. I thought, if I hadn’t encouraged them to stay maybe they wouldn’t be behind right now. A lot of it fell on me and I felt like I let them down. I talked to them about this and I was just crushed. I’m the oldest and I didn’t take care of them. That really bothered me. And it still does,”
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