{"id":443505,"date":"2026-02-01T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443505\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:29:08","slug":"triple-h-wwe-expected-aj-styles-to-retire-later-in-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443505\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple H: WWE expected AJ Styles to retire \u2018later in the year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cObviously, we expected it later in the year. We had a lot of conversations about it. AJ is one of those people that absolutely wants to give back and be a part of this business. I don\u2019t want to speak for him but the conversations that he had with me, he made it very clear that he was just done with the in-ring. There\u2019s a point where you just reach in your career where you say \u2018I don\u2019t want to do this anymore.\u2019 And when your heart goes, no matter how good you are, he hasn\u2019t lost a step\u2026but when you say \u2018I\u2019m just at a place where I don\u2019t want to do this anymore,\u2019 it\u2019s time before you get hurt, before you get told you\u2019re not allowed to do this anymore. I think he was there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cObviously, we expected it later in the year. We had a lot of conversations about it. AJ is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,4366,199973],"class_list":{"0":"post-443505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-wwe","10":"tag-wwe-royal-rumble"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}