AJ Styles was recently a guest on Corey Graves’ podcast, After The Bell. During the podcast, he spoke about his match against Shinsuke Nakamura at Wrestlemania 34.
Styles ended up explaining why he thinks that the match fell flat in the eyes of the fans.
Here is what he said:
“Expectations are way too high. I know Nakamura [thought so] too because no matter what we would have done in that match, the expectations were way too high.
Here’s what a lot of people don’t understand. Crowd, fans, the WWE Universe, New Japan and all that stuff, their fans are everything. They’re everything. They set the tone on what is a great match. It’s how they respond to it, and in Japan, they’re so respectful. When they do respond, it’s huge. Wow, this is such an amazing match, but had that same match been done in a WWE ring without the same response, it’s not going to be declared as that great of a match. Fans are everything. They dictate a great match. It’s just the reality and the truth of the whole thing, and a lot of people don’t understand. The expectations, they were so high because what we did at Wrestle Kingdom. I was like, ‘oh man.’ I still think it was a great match.”
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On a related note, check out my predictions for Wrestlemania 37 here.