Smackdown is the house that AJ Styles built. He is the current franchise player of the brand who is absent from the show for sometimes. He lost the WWE Championship all of a sudden to Daniel Bryan on the go-home edition of Survivor Series. It came as an utter surprise to the fans as he was set to break the record of CM Punk for the longest title reign in the modern era.
Reason behind AJ Styles dropping the WWE Championship
More big plans were waiting for him going forward which came to halt, suddenly. Recent reports are out revealing that a big match was waiting for him at Wrestlemania 35. The biggest event of the year might also be the place where he would have lost the WWE Championship. But the creative team pulled the trigger on him, earlier.
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As per reports of The Dirty Sheets Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles was the original WWE Championship planned for Wrestlemania 35. The end of the match would see Bryan turning heel on the champion to snatch the title away from him. This was the exact way how Bryan won the title on Smackdown meaning the officials preponed the angle.
The source also revealed that these two were about to overcome big odds while heading towards Wrestlemania 35. AJ Styles would be involved in a feud against The Miz whereas Daniel Bryan would reignite a feud against Randy Orton. Styles and Bryan would eventually come out as the winners in these feuds to earn the rights to main-event Wrestlemania.
These plans changed once again when Daniel Bryan refused to work at Crown Jewel PPV. The officials wanted to remove him from the WWE Championship picture, altogether. In fact, he tapped out to AJ Styles on Smackdown just three nights before the Saudi Arabia show. Here’re some details on the plans (courtesy wwfoldschool.com)
“WWE officials tried to punish Bryan by taking him out of SmackDown’s WrestleMania 35 main event for the WWE Championship by changing plans from Styles vs. Bryan to Styles vs. Orton for the WWE Championship, with the storyline being Orton has taken out all the top babyfaces on SmackDown (Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio, Daniel Bryan), except “The Phenomenal One”.”
But another alteration of plans followed as AJ Styles did not renew his contract with the WWE. It is set to expire on December 31st. This is the main reason why Daniel Bryan ended up winning the WWE Championship much prior than the actual date. Officials are still under a contract negotiation with the Phenomenal One but did not manage to reach an agreement.
