WWE Champion A.J. Styles Possibly Suffers Legitimate Injury

This past Friday night, WWE held a special live event in Madison Square Garden, featuring Superstars from both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live. They did an angle where WWE Champion A.J. Styles was attacked by Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, which prevented Styles from wrestling that night.

There was some speculation as to whether or not Styles has suffered some sort of legitimate injury, but according to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it appears as though the WWE Champion is indeed dealing with some sort of legitimate injury. Meltzer said the following:

“So last night at Madison Square Garden it was supposed to be A.J. Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, and it turned into a singles match with Nakamura and Kevin Owens, and Sami Zayn interfered. A.J. did make the save. They actually did an injury angle before the match but I didn’t know what that was. People said that they thought it was an injury. The injury was probably suffered beforehand and this was an angle set up to cover for it and then tonight in Odessa, Styles wasn’t there and they actually announced before the show that Styles was injured in Madison Square Garden, so that’s all I really know now. Don’t know the severity. We will probably know more in the morning.”