9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 8)
5. Will AJ Ever Speak?
This is a minor gripe, but its one that grows with each passing week. Since debuting last month, has AJ Styles said more than one sentence on Raw? He got a few words out when Renee Young was interviewing him a couple weeks ago, but Chris Jericho cut him off to praise him. Last week, the Miz interviewed AJ, cutting off all his answers in a humorous bit, but once again, Styles never talked. And again Monday night, Jericho and Miz did all the talking in building up AJ, with the Phenomenal One only coming out to clear the ring of Miz and square off with Y2J. This doesnt mean that WWE is mishandling Styles they actually are doing a nice job of making him feel important and special but when wrestlers and even announcers refer to him as the Redneck Rookie and he never talks, you wonder if the rumors of the brass not being in favor of his southern accent is true.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
