AJ Styles has been a regular performer of Monday Night Raw for almost two years. But whatever he has achieved since then are only two mid-card title reigns, one of them being a United States Championship run and the other one was an Intercontinental championship run. Fans may consider this as a potential burial but whatever he has achieved at Smackdown was way beyond this.
Styles used to be one of the biggest attractions of WWE Smackdown. He went through three amazing WWE championship runs and two very good United States championship runs. One of those WWE Championship reigns was a year-long run.
Is AJ Styles Getting Buried at Raw?
The phrase that AJ Styles used to utter almost every week at WWE Smackdown was, “Smackdown Live was the House that AJ Styles Built!” and fans showed their support towards him in unison. Fans of Styles predicted that there might be a new catchphrase for Styles at the Monday Night Raw which would be something like “Monday Night Raw is the house that Styles run!”
But such a thing never quite happened. And from whatever we are seeing right now, it does not seem like something would happen in near future either. Styles did manage to face the main champion of the show several times but he was never been given another world title reign. The booking of Styles at the Royal Rumble match the last January raised a lot of questions among the fans.
The way he was booked was a huge drawback for whatever he has achieved till now. He was tossed out by Braun Strowman like an undercard. Similar incidents could only be related to past undercards like Shannon Moore or Spike Dudley. This is certainly not the way to book a former three times WWE champion.
Right now, Styles is hiding more behind the shadow of Omos, a former world champion who cannot even conquer his own fights, and everyone knows how this team will end up; Omos will beat down Styles soon and he will be an independent wrestler. Either one of them will turn heel in the process. Fans are already predicting this team to end up like the Shawn Michaels – Diesel team way back in 1995.
Moreover, things have to change drastically. WWE is very famous for burying big names. They mostly buried all the wrestlers who earned some fame with other promotions. Styles’ push was of course his individual brilliance. We hope to see better days for Styles to arrive soon and we are hoping to see him as the World champion again.