{"id":444104,"date":"2026-02-25T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444104\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:39:09","slug":"backstage-news-regarding-aj-styles-being-inducted-into-the-wwe-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444104\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage news regarding AJ Styles being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during the February 23rd 2026 edition of WWE RAW, The Undertaker announced that AJ Styles <a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/the-undertaker-makes-surprise-announcement-at-the-end-of-aj-styles-retirement-speech\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be inducted into the 2026 WWE Hall of Fame<\/a>. According to Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline.com, \u201cThat whole thing at the end with The Undertaker and the Hall of Fame announcement was a legitimate surprise to AJ, who they didn\u2019t clue in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WWE has not officially announced who will be inducting Styles. However, a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/aj-styles-hof-151516162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BodySlam.net<\/a> noted that WWE would like John Cena to do the honor for him.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Styles noted via Twitter\/X that he didn\u2019t want to enter any Hall of Fame until he was done as an active wrestler. Styles wrote the following message at the time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still an active wrestler\u2026I hope. I made the decision not to go into the TNA HOF, not WWE. I appreciate TNA, but I don\u2019t want to go into any HOF as long as I\u2019m still active. My choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m still an active wrestler\u2026I hope. I made the decision not to go into the TNA HOF, not WWE. I appreciate TNA, but I don\u2019t want to go into any HOF as long as I\u2019m still active. My choice <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvXCMG4pki\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/lvXCMG4pki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AJ Styles (@AJStylesOrg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJStylesOrg\/status\/1851089646463197227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 29, 2024<\/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 February 23rd 2026 edition of WWE RAW, The Undertaker announced that AJ Styles will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7990,96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-444104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aj-styles","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}