WWE: AJ Styles Confirms Ankle Injury, Mick Foley on Chyna’s Lost Memorabilia, Carmelo Hayes

AJ Styles Confirms He Suffered an Ankle Injury

As noted before, AJ Styles is believed to have suffered a potential ankle-related injury at WWE’s house show event this past Thursday in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Styles recently confirmed on Twitter that the reports and rumors of him suffering an ankle injury are true and he is currently expected to be out of action for the longest period of time in his career. Despite the injury, Styles also stated that he will not need to undergo surgery to repair it.

Just want you guys to know that I’m ok. Broken ankle is what I’m dealing with. No surgery, this just takes some time to recover. This will be the longest I've ever been out of the ring. Thanks for the prayers and get well wishes.

— AJ Styles (@AJStylesOrg) December 31, 2022

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Mick Foley Tracking Down Chyna’s Lost Memorabilia for Potential Special Display at WWE Royal Rumble Event

A recent episode of the Foley is Pod podcast featured co-host Mick Foley revealing that he has been tracking down some of the notable memorabilia currently believed to be lost for the late Chyna for an upcoming A&E WWE Legends Biography episode based on her. Foley also stated that some of this memorabilia might end up being potentially shown in a display at WWE’s upcoming Royal Rumble 2023 event later this month in San Antonio, Texas.

“This is something I cannot supply for our podcast because our friends at A&E are really super enthusiastic about the Chyna documentary they’ve put together. They feel like they tell a great story. I mentioned my daughter, and they were asking about this relationship with my daughter, [their] friendship. I said, ‘Would you like to ask her? She’s visiting, she’s in town.’ So I make a quick call, [and] Noelle will be part of the documentary.

I have gone out on the road pursuing some of Joanie’s most memorabilia, and it’s been a great journey, and an honor to try to track it down, and bring it to a place where it can be enjoyed by tens of thousands of people, which we believe at this point will be at the Royal Rumble. So it’s been really good to be there hands-on, trying to track down some of those incredible memories that she created for us.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Carmelo Hayes Comments on Having Recent Main Roster Call-Up Talks with Shawn Michaels

Stephanie Chase held a recent interview with Carmelo Hayes. One of the topics discussed included Hayes revealing that he recently had talks with NXT head booker Shawn Michaels regarding a potential call-up to WWE’s main roster and telling Michaels that he wanted to stay focused in NXT until it happens.

“It’s weird [hearing all the main roster talk] because I feel like I want people to enjoy what I’m doing. I don’t want people to try and fast-track me, you know what I mean? Because that’s gonna be there when — it’s not going anywhere, main roster isn’t going anywhere but it’s great, people are excited, people want to see these certain matchups with me and guys on the main and I want ‘em. Trust me, if they said tomorrow, Melo, go to Raw, go to SmackDown, I’d be truly ready I feel. Like, hey, okay, let’s go. But I feel like I have unfinished business in NXT which is that NXT Championship. Just based off what I said earlier with that claim that I am the ‘A’ champion. I want to prove it. Give me that title so I can prove everything that I’ve been saying for the last year is true. So I’m not in a rush to get there but if they call me up tomorrow then that’s what it is and we’ll deal with that.

I just stay focused with what’s coming up, with what’s going on here. I had that [main roster] conversation with Shawn [Michaels] where I pretty much said, ‘Hey, just so you know, my head is here, my heart is here. I’m not getting carried away’ because yeah, like you said, I see it every day. ‘Oh Melo, go to the main roster, go to the main roster’ but I wanted to reassure Shawn that, ‘Hey, my head is here. I’m not thinking, oh! Main roster. I’m thinking what are we doing here? What are we doing on NXT?’ Because I take pride in putting on for NXT. I take pride in being one of the top names in NXT so like I said, my heart, my feet, my everything is here right now in NXT.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com