John Cena & AJ Styles Royal Rumble Contract Signing:
Daniel Bryan introduces John Cena and AJ Styles. Styles wants to know why are they doing this? Styles and Bryan go back over a dozen years. They competed in the small towns in high school gyms in front of nobody because we loved what we did. John Cena is not like them. Cena’s off television for four months and he gets a title match against him? Bryan understands where Styles is coming from but he wants him to know where he’s coming from.
Last week, SmackDown defeated Raw in the ratings for the first time. It’s because Styles was in the main event and Cena made his big return. SmackDown needs momentum going into the Royal Rumble with the match that everyone is talking about AJ Styles versus John Cena. This is the match that everyone wants and this is the match that they are going to give the people. Bryan reminds Styles that he already defeated Cena, three times.
Bryan wishes both men luck and heads out of the ring. Cena is the luckiest man on the planet. He was gifted a title match by the man who’s basically his brother-in-law. This is the best for AJ Styles, but my oh my look how the tables have turned. It was last year when Cena told Styles that he needed to win in order to not become another overrated indy guy. Styles tells Cena that if he doesn’t win, he doesn’t belong in the WWE. Styles reminds Cena that he beated him three times. No one saw Cena because he wasn’t here and Smackdown beat Raw because Styles is the champion, not John Cena. Spoiler alert, SmackDown can do it without John Cena. Styles signs the contract. Cena says that he’s lost all respect he had for Styles. Cena admitted that what he said about The Rock was not the truth, but Styles says that what Cena said about the Rock was true. John Cena has been great for the WWE for a long time. Two key words in that sentence, has been.
