Cody Rhodes Weighs In On AJ Styles Competing at NOAH Destination 2024

AJ Styles is facing Naomichi Marufuji at NOAH Destination 2024, and Cody Rhodes is excited to see the match. Styles and Marufuji will compete at tomorrow’s show in Japan, and the Pro Wrestling NOAH YouTube channel posted an interview with Rhodes where he weighed in on the bout.

“AJ Styles, I refer to him as a modern excellence of execution,” Rhodes said (per Fightful). “Bret Hart was the original excellence of execution, and I feel AJ really follows that greatly in terms of, AJ was already somebody who was doing new things and breaking the rules and part of the revolution in the industry. He was already a huge part of that. The most sought-after free agent in forever, and then finally here, we actually saw a better version of him, and that’s not always the case.”

He continued, “But with age, AJ has gotten completely…his game is complete, in terms of how he is as a performer and a competitor. I very much look forward to what AJ…I can see AJ Styles really showing out in Japan.”

The match is Styles’ first-ever bout against Marufuji and his first in Japan since a June 2019 WWE house show.