{"id":433849,"date":"2026-01-26T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:05:07","slug":"what-is-being-said-about-aj-styles-retirement-plans-following-deleted-instagram-post-from-shinsuke-nakamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433849\/","title":{"rendered":"What is being said about AJ Styles&#8217; retirement plans following deleted Instagram post from Shinsuke Nakamura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event on January 24th 2026, AJ Styles <a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/results-of-aj-styles-vs-shinsuke-nakamura-at-saturday-nights-main-event-from-january-24th-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Shinsuke Nakamura<\/a>. Styles will now face Gunther in a career-threatening match at the Royal Rumble.<\/p>\n<p>In a post via Instagram that <a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/shinsuke-nakamura-deletes-post-that-seemingly-spoils-the-result-of-aj-styles-vs-gunther\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he later deleted<\/a>, Nakamura revealed that Styles told him he was planning to retire at the Rumble. Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com stated the following regarding Nakamura\u2019s claim\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was legit in the sense Styles did tell him he was finishing up at the Rumble. It wasn\u2019t a planted story so they can say they fooled the Internet. That doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t change it but to do so Gunther would have to lose, and that was not the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was also noted by PWInsider.com that plans for Styles to retire before WrestleMania have been known within WWE for months. The Rumble was reportedly one of the events considered as a potential location for his retirement match.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strong Style <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SNME?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SNME<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bU5dbzMI9Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bU5dbzMI9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Triple H (@TripleH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TripleH\/status\/2015260229710012449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As seen during Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event on January 24th 2026, AJ Styles defeated Shinsuke Nakamura. Styles will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11695,49,48,75,96566,107003],"class_list":["post-433849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aj-styles","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-gunther","tag-shinsuke-nakamura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}