17 Things We Learned From AJ Styles On Talk Is Jericho

11. Going To Japan

Talk turns to AJ's decision to leave TNA and head to New Japan Pro Wrestling. WWE hadn't sent out any feelers regarding signing him at the time so he had to go overseas and start over. He knew Okada and Tanahashi and some of the Bullet Club guys but other than that he wasn't familiar with hardly anyone on the roster. He calls it a nervous feeling being the new guy who comes in and is immediately given a huge push to the main event. He says that right after he won the IWGP championship he and the rest of the Bullet Club were all riding together and he had a talk with them. "Listen guys, I know how this feels when a guy get the rocket push and here you guys have been here for a long time. Everything that we do from here on out is about us, not about me. It's about us. I just want you guys to know that I'm on your team and I'm not trying to stab somebody in the back to get to the next level." Jericho asks him to clarify if by "us" he means to other foreigners or entire company, and AJ responds that he meant specifically the Bullet Club, because he didn't want them to feel like he was pushing them to the side to make himself bigger; rather he wanted them to all grow as an entity.