Last week, some troublings reports surfaced pointing to AJ Styles possibly missing WrestleMania because of an injury sustained at a WWE Live Event in Madison Square Garden. However, it looks like The Phenomenal One vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the WWE Championship is back on because Styles recently returned to action at a non-televised event and we have an update on his condition.
"He’s hurt but I don’t think there’s any big problem as far as him doing the match since he worked all weekend," Dave Meltzer reveals. "He worked SmackDown 8-man tag matches with AJ teaming with the New Day in the main events and he didn’t do much in the ring. But he was there and did wrestle which means he is cleared which we reported late I think on Thursday."
"So there’s nothing to worry about as far as him doing the match," he adds. "And I think that knowing him and the fact that it’s WrestleMania and everything like that, you know. Even if he was on one leg he’d end up doing a great match against Nakamura." That's definitely a relief to hear and Meltzer concludes that it's possible Styles suffered an MCL injury of some sort.
Whether or not he'll need to take some time off after WrestleMania remains to be seen but his match against The King of Strong Style stands a very good chance of stealing the show in 12 days...