Current Champion ‘Manifesting’ Match With AJ Styles Ahead Of WWE Retirement

A current champion has said that they are ‘manifesting’ a dream match with AJ Styles ahead of AJ’s upcoming WWE retirement next year.

Over the past few months, AJ Styles has been rather outspoken about his plans to retire from in-ring competition next year, including recently on the WWE Crown Jewel kickoff event ahead of his match with John Cena on the show.

After years as arguably the top star in TNA, AJ made his return to the company at Slammiversary, where he entered to his old TNA entrance music and endorsed X-Division Champion Leon Slater.

AJ’s appearance at Slammiversary led to speculation that he may wrestle another match for TNA amid the ongoing partnership with TNA, and Slater himself is trying to make sure that does indeed happen.

Speaking to WhatCulture Wrestling, Slater said that he is ‘manifesting’ a match with AJ, and that he believes it has a pretty good chance of happening.

He said:

“I’ve been saying recently, I think the two dream matches that people were excited for me to have were Je’von, which is happening on Sunday, and AJ Styles, which is happening I don’t know when.

“I will say, although AJ has been putting out a lot of cryptic messages about hanging up the gloves soon, I like to think I still have a pretty good chance of making that match happen, especially with my luck this year. Hopefully my luck carries on into next year, and I have trust and I’m manifesting that is a match that will happen; Leon Slater vs. AJ Styles.”

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