AJ Styles encouraged all wrestlers to use his moves, as he wants them to last for a long time in the wrestling canon.
“Listen, Dragon did reach out and was like, ‘Hey man, you care?’ Please, please use it. Anybody who wants to use it, it’s all yours. The Phenomenal Forearm, use it. It’s out there. I know Ospreay does it. Do it, dude. It doesn’t bother me, not one bit. AJ Styles isn’t going to use it anymore. I hope it can find itself in professional wrestling for a long time.”
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I remember after New Beginning '25, telling a friend that he was starting to become formulaic and predictable, that the act was wearing thin, and I was alone in that! people were hailing the Tsuji match as runaway MOTYC. 6 months later, he had the DR patch on his kneepads
hard to describe to someone who wasn't watching New Japan in '23-'24 but Lithium Gabe was something else. he was fresh, authentic, he was unpredictable. my first username on here was "gabe kidd, m.A.A.d city". few guys have managed to piss all that good will away so quickly