AJ Styles weighs in on WWE ‘dropping the ball’ with Gunther

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 31: Gunther retired AJ Styles at this year’s Royal Rumble just over a month after tapping out John Cena. | (Photo: Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images) Gunther shocked fans in December by making John Cena tap out in Cena’s final match at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Now, eight months later, he’s heading into SummerSlam, one of WWE’s biggest shows of the year, to face SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis. It’s an unexpected path after such a landmark win, raising questions about whether WWE has dropped the ball with Gunther. That question was recently put to AJ Styles on The Phenomenally Retro Podcast. After his co-host Tony Giles argued that Gunther’s momentum had stalled despite the win over Cena, Styles agreed while defending WWE’s creative team. “It’s fair to say that,” Styles said, adding, “I’d rather beat myself to death in that ring than be a writer for a show because you have to be smarter than everybody else. And it’s very hard to do week after wee