10 Incredible Last Minute PPV Changes You Never Saw Coming
1. AJ Styles (Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2017 AND Survivor Series 2017)
God Bless AJ Styles. And he’s a religious fella, so why not?
Earning a revered place in the company as a modern day Bret Hart, Styles can now be considered the saviour of two pay-per-views and the WWE Title in the space of a month.
Comfortably becoming the organisation’s finest performer less than two years removed from his surprising Royal Rumble 2016 debut, AJ was literally airlifted in to Monday Night Raw pay-per-view Tables, Ladders and Chairs to take on fellow New Japan Pro Wrestling alumni Finn Bálor only 24 hours removed from working a SmackDown Live! house show in Chile. The contest was the best match of the night by a distance despite leaving room for future hostilities between the two.
One day and yet another Raw bonus match on from that, he looked set to make up the numbers on the blue brand’s Survivor Series team until he was given the nod to release Jinder Mahal’s crippling stranglehold on the WWE Title. In doing so, he marched into a monster clash with Brock Lesnar with just over a week of prep.
‘Phenomenal’ isn’t the g*ddamn word for it - everybody in that g*ddamn dressing room know’s that he’s possibly the best there is, best there was and best there ever will be.