WWE News: AJ Styles Featured on The Week’s WWE Hidden Gems, Today’s Wrestling Birthdays, New Day Celebrates Kofi Kingston’s Birthday

– According to WWE Network News, this week’s addition to the Hidden Gems section will be AJ Styles’ dark match before Raw from 2001 and will be added to the WWE Network archives on Thursday. The match took place on July 9th of that year, and he faced off against Rick Michaels.

“WWE 07/09/2001 – AJ Styles vs Rick Michaels
See a young AJ Styles compete before the WWE audience long before his official debut in this dark match against Rick Michaels.”

– Here is the New Day celebrating Kofi Kingston’s birthday…

– Here are today’s wrestling birthdays…

* Ruckus (30)
* Ryo Saito (39)
* Kazuo Yamazaki (56)