AJ Styles made his WWE debut during the 2016
Royal Rumble and he returned to the match this past Sunday. However, after selling a Spear from Edge, he landed badly on his left shoulder and ended up separating it. Now, he's shed some light on what happened during the match and pointed out that Edge was in no way to blame.
"Just so everything is clear: Edge did nothing, absolutely 100% nothing wrong. His move, his spear, everything was perfect the way he did it. If there is any blame put on anybody about what I'm dealing with my shoulder, it's me. 100% me. I was over-brothered as they say, I just went crazy with my bump there. The only problem with flipping the way I did, the first thing to hit was my left shoulder. I thought I dislocated my shoulder. They wanted to get me out of there right away but I told them we can't do that, I can't roll under the bottom rope, that's not how the Rumble works. I said I'm staying in, and somebody's going to have to throw me over. We made sure that happened."
"It is a separated shoulder. If you are going to do some damage to your shoulder, that might be the best one to do because you can come back with therapy from this. I'm pretty sure that is all it is. I could tell you Monday morning it was very difficult to put on a shirt. To put on deodorant, I couldn't even reach across. It sucked. From Monday to Tuesday and therapy today, I'm feeling a lot better. I don't expect to be out very long. I'm betting on myself that I'll be back before they think that I'm ready. We'll see how that works out."
Styles went on to say that he feels frustrated being stuck at home and noted that he has no plans to miss WrestleMania.
"I actually enjoy taking spears," he added while looking back at how the move caused the injury. "If you've seen Rhino give me spears, it's like, inside out. It was one of those things where I was just a little tilted maybe to the left side. I couldn't have landed any better on my shoulder to hurt it. It was the first thing that hit when I fell."
While things didn't go exactly as Styles planned, he went on to say that sharing the ring with Edge was a great moment for him. "I was so stoked to be in the ring with him [Edge] and have that moment with him," the former United States Champion said. "I was excited about that."
Needless to say, we wish Styles a speedy recovery!