AJ Styles Goes Viral For Refusing Fan Request at WWE Live Event

Wrestling legend AJ Kinds has gone viral after refusing a fan’s request following a match at a WWE dwell occasion.

Kinds is only one month in need of his tenth anniversary with the world’s greatest promotion, having made his iconic debut in the course of the 2016 Royal Rumble match.

His WWE tenure has been extremely profitable, seeing him win a number of world championships, essential occasion WrestleMania, and even turn into the primary man in historical past to win the WWE championship outdoors of North America, when he defeated Jinder Mahal to win the title in Manchester, England, in November 2017.

AJ Kinds Labored For Quite a few Corporations Earlier than Becoming a member of WWE

Kinds has labored for quite a lot of main promotions throughout his virtually thirty-year-long profession. He started within the NWA, earlier than heading to WCW throughout its remaining months in early 2001.

He then grew to become one of many pillars of Whole Nonstop Motion wrestling between 2002 and 2014. Between his stints with TNA and WWE, Kinds loved a profitable interval in Japan with New Japan Professional-Wrestling, main the well-known ‘Bullet Membership’ steady alongside Matt and Nick Jackson, extra generally often called ‘The Younger Bucks’.

However there’s one important firm that ‘The Phenomenal One’ hasn’t wrestled in: All Elite Wrestling.

The WWE was in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday night time for a dwell occasion. One of many essential matches on the cardboard noticed Kinds and his tag associate, Dragon Lee, efficiently defended their world tag workforce championships in a triple menace tag workforce match towards The New Day and The Conflict Raiders.

“Cannot Signal This” – AJ Kinds Snubs WWE Fan Request

After the match, as Kinds was heading again up the ramp, he was requested by a fan at ringside to signal a duplicate AEW world title belt.

The veteran wrestler responded lightheartedly, even shouting out his former Bullet Membership brothers earlier than politely declining the fan’s request.

“Is that this on? Is it videotaping? Flip it again round,” Kinds mentioned. “Nick, Matt, I like ya. I can’t signal this, although.”

Video exhibits the fan pleading: “Please, AJ!” Kinds had made his resolution, although, and moved on to fulfill others who had been lined as much as meet him. Earlier than the footage cuts off, a safety guard may be seen waving the followers and his belt away.

Whereas it might appear to be a harsh name to not signal the belt, quite a lot of followers on social media had been fast to leap to Kinds’ defence:

“How dumb you gotta be to blow your probability at an auto with a unique firm belt. Ridiculous.” one wrote. One other insisted: “Dealt with with class. Respecting manufacturers whereas nonetheless giving followers a second is a part of being a real skilled.”

A 3rd fan even identified Kinds’ historical past of refusing to signal championship belts from different wrestling promotions:

AJ is simply being a loyal firm man. I went to the BFG fan fest in 2009 the place he refused to take footage with WWE titles & round 5 years later whereas being the IWGP champion that he would not take an image with the NWA or TNA duplicate titles regardless of being a former champion.”

The Jacksonville-based AEW is the quantity two skilled wrestling firm on this planet at current. Kinds was even linked with a transfer to the promotion earlier in his profession. Nonetheless, because the Georgia native enters the ultimate months of his time within the ring, his loyalty to WWE can’t be questioned.