AJ Styles On Why His WrestleMania 35 Match With Randy Orton Is Overlooked

AJ Styles feels his match with Randy Orton at WrestleMania doesn’t get talked about because fans couldn’t see it. Styles battled Orton at the 2019 PPV, a match that saw Styles get the win.

WrestleMania 35 was an infamously loaded card with 11 main card bouts and four pre-show bouts. Styles recalled in an appearance on WWE Retrospective that their match was supposed to be “second or first,” but got changed because Brock Lesnar wanted his match with Seth Rollins to open the show. He said that by the time they got on, the lighting was such that people couldn’t see the match properly. (It should be noted that Styles vs. Orton went on second, so Styles could be assumed to mean his match should have gone first, not first or second.) You can see the highlights below:

On the Match Originally Being Set To Go On Early:

“Now this match, it was good. But most don’t remember it because nobody was making noise. Because in this match, they were being blinded by the lights. Why were they being blinded? Because I do believe we were either second or first, but that got changed because Brock wanted to go. And so apparently we follow the rules of Brock Lesnar when it comes to deciding who goes first or second.”

On Orton:

“You’ve heard what other guys have said about Randy and about how smooth this stuff is, and it’s all true. That’s why he’s been there for so long; he just gets it. You know, Randy’s a massive human being too, he’s not small. And this right here where he’s going up for the superplex, which is a Randy Orton thing. When we land, I don’t know how I landed or why I landed in this particular way, but he is about to murder my SI joint, to the point where I couldn’t walk the next day. Yeah, I’m hurting. Not that bad though, because adrenaline is a thing.”

On His Assessment Of the Match:

“It was a really good match, but again, if you don’t have the crowd, you don’t have the match. And they, again, couldn’t see it.”