Before we talk about what a match between AJ Styles and MJF would actually look like, we’ve got to talk about the promos that would lead up to it. Styles was never known to be a promo guy, but he can get people going when he is given something that has a lot of meat on the bone. As for MJF, you already know what he’s capable of, and the insults he would throw at Styles have probably been written already by the “Salt of the Earth.” It might not be relevant to the story, but you can guarantee MJF would make fun of Styles for his flat earth theories, his soccer mom haircut, or if he really wanted to go for a deep cut, the Claire Lynch storyline from TNA.
For the match itself, it would most likely be great, but it would also be a great showcase for MJF and one of his own biggest strong points, making other people look good. I know, he is guilty of putting himself over at the sacrifice of having a well put together match at times, but he has matured greatly in the seven years he’s been in AEW, and over the past two years especially, MJF has proven that when paired with the right people, he can put other people over as well. He did it for Will Ospreay, Hangman Page, he even did it for Mark Briscoe, MJF would be one of those people that bring the best out of someone like Styles this late on his career, which would only back up MJF’s claims of being a generational talent.
We talked about it in relation to Styles potentially wrestling Kyle Fletcher or Hangman, but Styles can’t do half of the things he’s remembered for in TNA, ROH, or NJPW. If anything, the AJ Styles we’ve seen in WWE over the past decade isn’t watered down because of the company, it’s watered down so Styles can preserve his body and live to fight another day, especially in the past few years. Sure, he can have a hard-hitting, NJPW-style war with people on occasion, but he likes to wrestle in a way where he can get out of bed in the morning and MJF would actually be the perfect person to paired up with for a match like that.
MJF is a big fan of old school, less is more storytelling, meaning that Styles would likely be dying to get in the ring with someone like that. Styles wrestling someone who makes the little things mean more and not forcing him to go hell for leather from the opening bell, he’d bite your hand off for a deal like that right now. I’m not saying Styles can’t wrestle the “AEW style” whatever that may be, but MJF is someone who can basically work any style and make it look good, or in the case of wrestling Styles, it would probably be phenomenal.
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