{"id":492364,"date":"2026-02-26T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:48:07","slug":"report-aj-styles-signs-a-new-deal-with-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492364\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: AJ Styles signs a new deal with WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When AJ Styles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/415918\/aj-styles-explains-why-gloves-on-wwe-royal-rumble-retirement-match-career-over-future-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put his gloves back on<\/a> after GUNTHER killed his WWE career at Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia, I figured it was just a matter of time until The Phenomenal One was working some matches in TNA or AEW. But he\u2019s made it very clear this week that he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/aew\/420807\/aj-styles-responds-rumors-aew-wwe-hall-of-fame-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retired for good<\/a> (unless maybe his children become wrestlers).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">WWE capped off his career with a special tribute on this week\u2019s Raw in Atlanta, which included The Undertaker announcing that AJ will join Stephanie McMahon in WWE\u2019s Hall of Fame Class of 2026. Now, multiple sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/pwinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PW Insider<\/a> that Styles and WWE have reached an agreement on a new contract. He will contribute to WWE in a behind-the-scenes role in talent development on the new deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Styles has publicly said that he\u2019ll be working with WWE going forward and dreams of helping young talent, so this new report lines up with all of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Do you think AJ will be phenomenal in his new role with WWE? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When AJ Styles put his gloves back on after GUNTHER killed his WWE career at Royal Rumble in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5894,88,94182,4366,94184,199973,8316],"class_list":["post-492364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aew","tag-entertainment","tag-tna","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-hall-of-fame","tag-wwe-royal-rumble","tag-wwe-raw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492364","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=492364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}