AJ Styles is to many, the greatest in-ring performer of this generation, and perhaps one of the greatest of all time. At Saturday Night's Main Event, he was involved in a very rare bad botch.
At Saturday Night's Main Event, the third match of the night and the co-main event saw AJ Styles and Dragon Lee, the World Tag Team Champions, face the up-and-coming duo of Je'Von Evans and Leon Slater. Evans, in particular, has been a very busy man, wrestling at Saturday Night last week for NXT Deadline, then on NXT, then on SmackDown, and now at SNME. With four matches in seven days, he is red hot right now despite losing half of those matches.
Either way, at the end of the match, AJ Styles got onto the top rope for a phenomenal forearm, and he had a rare botch as he slipped very badly off the top rope.
Of course, as he always does, he would quickly recover and counter Leon Slater's 450 Splash and transition right into the Styles Clash - reminding everyone exactly who he was. For those who aren't aware, Styles confirmed that he will be calling it quits on his career in 2026.
While there is no formal retirement tour planned, this will be the last year he wrestles as an active competitor, so enjoy him while he's here because, just like with John Cena, you aren't going to realize where the year went. It felt like only yesterday when January 6th saw the kickstart of the Cena retirement tour, and December 13th came in the snap of a finger.
It's going to be an emotional final year for Styles, who will have touched ten years in the WWE - nearly as long as his entire TNA stint, which is quite hard to believe.
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Edited by Rohit Nath

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