AJ Styles Names His Quintessential Matches, Picks an Ideal Bar Fight Team

AJ Styles listed off his three quintessential matches in a new interview and named his ideal hypothetical bar fight team. The WWE star was on the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast and was asked the show’s trademark question of which wrestlers from any era he would pick to back him up in a bar fight.

Styles was also asked about the matches that he would want to showcase his legacy. He named a few additional matches, including his cage match with Abyss in TNA, but led off with his famed TNA Unbreakable 2005 match with Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels. He also named his matches with John Cena. Finally, he mentioned his TLC match with Dean Ambrose (now Jon Moxley in AEW). You can see the highlights below:

On His Bar Fight Team:

“Well, I can tell you this. I’m going to pick the most intimidating man I’ve ever seen in my life. And it’s just based on his size, he’s a sweetheart of a guy, but they [the hypothetical bar opponents] don’t know it. And I’ve never seen him fight or anything like that, but I’m pretty sure he could break somebody in half. I’m gonna get Omos. ‘Omos, come and help me, bro.’ He’s a scary human being if you’ve never seen him before. He’s just unbelievably huge. He’s not skinny tall, He’s scary tall.

“I may have to call up on the Usos. I’ll get both of them to jump in there, because I know that they’d be there. Joe, Samoa Joe. I got Joe coming. And I guess that leads me one more. Who would be that last guy? Are we going from anytime? [Yes] Oh my god! Give me Rick Rude. Like, that guy’s coming and he’s clearing the house. Yeah, Rick Rude for sure.”

On His Three ‘Quintessential’ Matches:

“Oh man, they got to give me the match at Unbreakable, right? With me, Joe, and Christopher Daniels. That’s a good one. The match with Cena — I don’t know which one I’d pick. Summerslam or Royal Rumble, or freaking the one we just had. And so now I got one more that I’d want in there for people to remember. And that’s a tough one. That’s a tough one. Because now I got to think back to who I wrestled and man, it’s tough.

“But that match with me and Dean Ambrose, that TLC match where my gear gets ripped and I’m showing my half my buttcheek. That was a really, really good one, man. It was really, really good. That 450 through the table was crazy, man. I was like, ‘Man, I can’t believe I [did that].'”

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