{"id":482000,"date":"2026-02-21T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:31:11","slug":"aj-styles-wwe-raw-tribute-show-plans-major-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482000\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Styles WWE Raw Tribute Show Plans Major Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aj-styles-raw-tribute.jpg\" alt=\"AJ Styles WWE Raw Tribute Show Plans Major Update\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    WWE<\/p>\n<p>A big update has emerged reagrding plans for the AJ Styles tribute on the Monday, February 23 edition of WWE Raw.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place in Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 Styles\u2019 home state \u2013 WWE announced last week that the show will feature a \u201ctribute\u201d to Styles following his in-ring retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Styles lost a match against GUNTHER at WWE Royal Rumble on January 31, with the stipulation that it would be Styles\u2019 retirement match if he lost.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Styles caused more headlines by going to take his ring gloves off, but then deciding against it.<\/p>\n<p>He later clarified that in true wrestling fashion he hasn\u2019t 100% closed the door on a potential in-ring return in the future, but for now, he is retired.<\/p>\n<p>Despite question marks over his status, Styles has been in and around WWE since that match, including making appearances on official WWE podcasts and more.<\/p>\n<p>In a big update regarding the plans for Raw, Joe Tessitore stated on WWE SmackDown tonight that Raw will see Styles \u201caddress the WWE universe one final time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly unrelated to the Styles tribute, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/topic\/brock-lesnar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Lesnar<\/a> is set to return on Monday\u2019s Raw as well for his first appearance since the Rumble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlingmasterclass.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-436300 size-full\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wrestling-masterclass-9-stars-webp-768x127.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make sure you stay up to date with all the biggest wrestling and WrestleTalk news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@wrestletalk.official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Threads by clicking this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/author\/liam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771680671_282_c03366d4bea508f17b6fca940d92f7861bba78091c07dcd3923391a8aad4bd2d.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"share\">Share this article with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE A big update has emerged reagrding plans for the AJ Styles tribute on the Monday, February 23&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[197010,88,125563,4366],"class_list":["post-482000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aj-styles","tag-entertainment","tag-raw","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482000","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=482000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}