AJ Styles expressed his desire to face Triple H multiple times during the couple of interviews but he never got a chance to face ‘The Game’ Triple H in WWE as he was transitioned into part-time role to the ring.
On the recent media call to promote NXT Takeover: Stand And Deliver, Triple H revealed that AJ Styles asked him every week for a match against him but Triple H didn’t have bandwidth available to make this match happen.q
“When he first came to me, I said, ‘AJ, I’m not going to tell you no. Personally, I’d love to work with you and at this point, you can carry me to something.’ So, I’d love it. The personal side of it, the performer side of it, I would love nothing more, but the reality is—I’m not going to have the bandwidth or availability schedule-wise to be able to pull that off. He would come to me every week or every other week when I would see him and say, ‘How’s that bandwidth coming? You going to be able to make this happen?’ I’d say I’m not, but I’m flattered by that—I really am—and I’m humbled by it.” (H/T: WrestleZone)
During the media call, Triple H also discussed about his retirement to the ring. He said that WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair always told him to have one final match at WrestleMania before his retirement to wrestling career.
“I’m at the point where to me, the in-ring stuff is bonus. It’s funny—[Ric] Flair calls me all the time to tell me, ‘You have to get back in the ring. You have to go to WrestleMania you have to have that closure and do this, whatever, a ‘retirement match.’ There’s a part of me that wants to do it, and then there’s just a bigger part of me that says, ‘I’m so busy 24/7, that to even try and contemplate how to train in the way I would want to train and get in-shape—and by shape, I don’t mean look—in-shape ring wise so you don’t embarrass yourself once you get in there at 52.” (H/T: WrestleZone)
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