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AJ Styles was intially penciled in to win the Universal Title at SummerSlam

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#1 · (Edited)
According to the WON, original plans for SummerSlam had AJ Styles set to win the new WWE Universal Title as a Smackdown championship. The site reports that Raw was originally going to get the WWE Championship and that Smackdown would have had the Universal Title with Styles becoming the inaugural champion.

Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins would have been the WWE Championship match, and Reigns’ Wellness violation was what caused the change as WWE wanted to punish him by pushing him lower on the card.

Other changes for the show included Finn Balor originally being set to face Chris Jericho and a planned Baron Corbin vs. Kalisto match being dropped due to there already being so many matches on the show.

http://411mania.com/wrestling/aj-styles-was-originally-set-to-win-universal-title-at-summerslam/

Thank god Roman was suspended, I would have loved to see AJ win a title... but c'mon... the universal title :lmao

Raw is stuck with that shit now.
 
#15 · (Edited)
It would have been way too early. Man I want them to wait for it... I'd rather see it happen against a bigger opponent at the biggest stage of them all. A win against Ambrose at some C tier level PPV will be a huge mistake, but AJ is the hottest thing in the WWE right now that they're almost forced to put it on him. To be fair, Ambrose has done himself no favors whatsoever. He has dialed it completely in when he should be trying to steal the show. Look at AJ on the otherhand and how much he has improved on the mic. Dude has become the Anti-Cena/Reigns and has everyone invested - smarks, women and children. He was able to get them to chant for Dolph Ziggler for crying out loud :lmao
 
#16 ·
It's interesting the original Summerslam plans have nothing to do with Dean Ambrose. Clearly he was not intended to be in any of the championship matches. I reckon the original plan was for him to lose the title at Battleground but Roman's suspension changes that. AJ Styles is higher in the pecking order and when you look at both guys work over this last year it's easy to see why.
 
#91 · (Edited)
Ambrose would have been MITB briefcase holder still. So he might have been wrestling Bray at Summerslam. If he wasn't champion and potentially going after AJ title post Summerslam.


So AJ might win title at No Mercy or Survivor Series now. While they possibly intended for Ambrose to cash in and beat heel AJ for the title after one of those ppvs. Setting up No Mercy or Survivor Series matches between the two. So opposite effect might be happening here.
 
#27 ·
And for the record, Ambrose is quite easily top 3 or 4 mic workers in the WWE today. But in his current incarnation, or maybe his current alignment he's boring as fuck
 
#36 ·
Finn Bàlor vs Chris Jericho would've been cool to see and exactly what he needed, a feud to show who he is and Chris Jericho would've actually helped him on the mic, he is really good at doing that... but AJ Styles got lucky since a clean victory over Cena is way better than winning any championship, that will only make him bigger.

But that Reigns justification is some stupidity. " So, Reigns, what you did was bad so now, you will be a midcarder. You will humiliate the monster Rusev who is making everyone taps out, you will beat him clean, at the PPV, you will destroy him before the match begins and you will Main-Event the next Raw. Hope that will teach you a lesson "
 
#39 ·
Roman Reigns is cursed, that is why he got suspended and in order to drop the main WWE title and give rise to the Universal title. He is forever destined to be our Universal Champion, to be utterly booed as much as the title itself. Roman Reigns, the champion of the WWE Universe (a product of the machine), but not the champion of all of wrestling fans. They are prefect soulmates.
 
#44 ·
I'm a huge Ambrose fan but saying AJ has no mic skills is absolutely ridiculous, in fact, he is one of the best right now on that mic (As a heel ofc). Way better than Rollins for example who everyone rates as a top mic worker

AJ got the ring work, the charisma, the name to be a champion, the only downside to all of this is that I don't want Ambrose to lose the title so quickly as I think he deserves a longer reign, but the spotlight has not been on him, it's like he's a ghost champion which is sad
 
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#60 ·
Giving guys who are overshadowed the belt is what killed the business.
 
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#56 · (Edited)
AJ Styles has much better mic skills than Reigns and Balor combined, heck better than most of the roster. He can carry himself well in promos and when he gets into the heat of a promo he excels more than he is capable of. He speaks from the heart, speaks from experience and knows what he is saying is true. He delivers with conviction.

Bray Wyatt is great at promos, but he is too fancy pansy, talks in esoterics that few understand. Too much metaphors. He needs to be direct with his goals. Why does he what said goal and what is his ultimate ulterior motive.

Difference between Styles and Wyatt is that one fits the bill of a competitor, he can be a champion who can have great matches with anymore. The other is not, too much of a character. If there was any value in Bray, Vince would have noticed it. He see's value in Styles and gave him two wins over Cena. In the end it's all about the money. Bray Wyatt is like a great movie trailer that sells you to watch a shit match. Whilst AJ Styles is a blockbuster film with real quality, tells you a story inside the ring and is trying his best to be a great movie trailer. You can tell Styles is his current favourite.

AJ Styles is a man, whilst Bray Wyatt is a boy trying to be a man. It's the same with Ziggler.
 
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#64 ·
this threads been hilarious with the aj vs ambrose fan war so ill chip in with my view

styles is better at everything than dean, and i do mean everything
i find dean boring and unconvincing on the mic, at least vaguely entertained by styles on the mic so 1 nil
ring work, we know the story 2 nil
big fight feel its hard to judge, this is where ill be fair to dean, cant judge this until we see an ambrose cena feud

on a side note, people saying roman isnt popular are way off, yes he doesn't get crazy pops but look at everything else, romans threads on this get way more responses than any other, way more youtube views, everyone's invested in everything he does whether you love him or you hate him
 
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