WWE Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles is gearing up for the upcoming SummerSlam PPV event taking place this Sunday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York where he will take on Samoa Joe, and is talking about his run at the top of the WWE mountain as well as Vince McMahon’s opinion of him.
“I enjoy being the guy that people depend on, that’s rewarding to me” Styles said, in an interview with Dirtfork’s Joshua Caudill.
“To be able to hold on to the championship this long means I’m doing something right. I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing. My job is to make sure that people are entertained and at SummerSlam, it will be no different, I can promise you that.”
Despite one of the biggest debut pops in history at the Royal Rumble a few years ago, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon thought it was simply a fluke, but later saw something in Styles.
“I don’t even think I was supposed to be on Raw that next Monday. But the turning point where Vince really saw something in me was when I had a regular match, a babyface match, went out and did my thing. I came back to gorilla and Vince says, ‘Come here for a second. I’ve got other guys who can do exactly what you just did out there. You didn’t do anything special. I need a pit bull. I need a guy who just attacks. I need a guy who gets after it.’”
The turning point for McMahon was how Styles’ appearance on Miz TV was the turning point for the WWE boss.
“That was the turning point. That’s when things changed and that’s how I became the A.J. Styles that you know now.”
