AJ Styles Reveals if He Will Wrestle John Cena Again After Crown Jewel with Enormous Saudi Arabia payday

AJ Styles has set the record straight on if the exorbitant Saudi Arabia paycheck would make him wrestle John Cena again after Crown Jewel.

AJ Styles Reveals if He Will Wrestle John Cena Again After Crown Jewel with Enormous Saudi Arabia payday

AJ Styles and John Cena [via- WWE]

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At one point, it didn’t even appear that John Cena vs. AJ Styles was in the cards for the remainder of Cena’s WWE farewell tour, but it is just over a day away from happening. The two masters of their craft will go one-on-one tomorrow in Perth at Crown Jewel. Is it their last dance together? Or could the infamous Saudi Arabia paycheck lure them into doing it again?

If Styles is to be believed on this matter, it’s not going to happen. The former two-time WWE Champion didn’t mince his words while speaking on Raw Recap. At first, he mentioned how he’s not lingered around the main event scene in WWE for quite a while now. It made him seem as if he was not that important anymore.

…….the fans wanted this match, and at the end of the day, when it comes to John Cena’s retirement tour, we’re gonna give them what they want. So, I’m happy to have the opportunity to face John one more time and I can tell you this, it’ll never happen again. I don’t care how much money they offer us, we’re probably still — I said probably — we’re not going to Saudi Arabia to have another match.

AJ Styles via Raw Recap

However, the justified uproar from the fans paved the way for the match he’s about to have with Cena. While he’s ecstatic about the opportunity, ‘The Phenomenal One’ affirmed that they wouldn’t run it back at a future Saudi Arabian show, no matter how much money is on the table. Because this is what Styles feels is right.

He then segued into calling it quits on his wrestling career, pretty much like Cena is doing this December. ‘The Georgia Pitbull’ recently confirmed that he will retire at some point in 2026. Cena and Styles haven’t met in a singles capacity since 2018. The closest they got to wrestling each other after that was this year’s 30-man Royal Rumble match, where Styles returned after a three-month hiatus from a Lisfranc injury.

AJ Styles credits John Cena for helping him become a name in WWE

For those oblivious to the fact that AJ Styles was already an established wrestler before debuting in WWE, he started wrestling in 1998. He experienced his heyday in TNA, so much so that he was even hailed by the wrestling pundits as the cornerstone of that promotion.

When he arrived in WWE, Styles already had a gargantuan price tag attached to his resume. However, that didn’t do him any favors in the eyes of then-WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, who wasn’t even aware of the 48-year-old at first.

AJ Styles and John Cena
AJ Styles and John Cena [via- WWE]

After Styles was finally signed by WWE on a long-term basis, the first of the definitive feuds he had was with John Cena. The latter was brutally attacked by Styles and his henchmen, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, on his return to WWE television in May 2016 after a five-month hiatus from a shoulder injury.

It would eventually balloon into a big-time rivalry, with Cena and Styles ending up wrestling each other on three different PLEs. ‘Mr. TNA’ won the first two encounters at Money in the Bank and SummerSlam in 2016. While ‘The Cenation Leader’ ousted his nemesis at the Royal Rumble in 2017 to win his sixteenth world title in WWE.

Reminiscing about their iconic battles, ‘The Face That Runs the Place’ told the entire panel of Raw Recap that Cena indeed helped make AJ Styles that big of a deal in WWE. The former IWGP Champion exclaimed that working with the Peacemaker actor put him on a different level while also noting that some of his best matches were against ‘The Franchise Player’.

Styles wasn’t sure where he’d have ended up on the wrestling charts if it wasn’t for Cena pushing him to the limits. Later on, ‘The Phenomenal One’ quipped in a lighthearted manner that Cena didn’t take his permission to use the Styles Clash on Logan Paul at Clash in Paris. However, given the kind of influence Cena had on his career, Styles took that as an ode to him.

‘The Prototype’, while speaking on the Clash in Paris post-show, alluded to the fact that he might not be left with enough time to wrestle every single name he wanted on his retirement tour. It staged an online ruckus that Cena was hinting about being snubbed over an AJ Styles match. What followed that is history, and the two of them are finally wrestling on Saturday.

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