{"id":455904,"date":"2026-02-05T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455904\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:47:08","slug":"aj-styles-explains-why-he-kept-his-gloves-on-after-losing-to-gunther-at-the-wwe-royal-rumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455904\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Styles explains why he kept his gloves on after losing to Gunther at the WWE Royal Rumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble PLE, AJ Styles <a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/results-of-gunther-vs-aj-styles-from-wwe-royal-rumble-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost to Gunther<\/a> in a career-threatening match. While speaking to Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles explained why he kept his gloves on after losing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. Never say never, right? That\u2019s the saying. I think everybody\u2019s allowed at least once to come out of retirement. I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019ll do it anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>What if my son wrestles? The opportunity to tag with him once? You never know. So, there\u2019ll be a time when the gloves never go back on. It may be now, but we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think everybody&#8217;s allowed at least once to come out of retirement<\/p>\n<p>AJ Styles x Stephanie McMahon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W0848Qcm2y\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/W0848Qcm2y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Promo Joe (@PromoJoeYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PromoJoeYT\/status\/2019372027728310756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 5, 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 the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble PLE, AJ Styles lost to Gunther in a career-threatening match.&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],"class_list":["post-455904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aj-styles","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455904","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=455904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455904\/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=455904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}