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WWE Royal Rumble 2026
A distanza di dieci anni dal suo debutto, AJ Styles è costretto a cedere alla sconfitta contro Gunther, mettendo fine alla sua carriera in WWE.
#wwe #wrestling #ajstyles
A distanza di dieci anni dal suo debutto, AJ Styles è costretto a cedere alla sconfitta contro Gunther, mettendo fine alla sua carriera in WWE.
#wwe #wrestling #ajstyles
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00:27Sous-titrage MFP.
00:30No, no, no, no.
00:36And here's the opponent, from Gainesville Georgia,
00:41weighing in at 220 pounds,
00:46the phenomenal AJ Styles!
00:58a.j. styles has made it clear that 2026 is his final year in professional wrestling but
01:06he wants to go out on his terms he'd love to have a year-long retirement tour and face
01:11some of his all-time great rivals but he was suckered into this match wade by the ring
01:16general gotham yeah he was goaded into putting his career on the line against the career killer
01:23which to me was a huge unforced error sometimes when you think emotionally you don't think clearly
01:31you're thinking becomes irrational and i understand the pride that a.j. has built up throughout his long
01:3725 plus years at the top but that pride for me has been popped it has made him put his
01:44career
01:45on the line against the guy who conceivably may not be beatable i mean how long have we been
01:51watching gunther in wwe six seven years whatever it is i would guess off the top of my head maybe
01:57five losses in that time could you could you uh have you got the stats to hand actually six six
02:03okay well it's close enough it's a handful of losses but listen to these numbers when he was nxt uk
02:09champion he was champ for 870 days when he was intercontinental champion gunther held the title
02:13a record 666 days and he's a double-time world champion and he's only been beat six times in the
02:21past couple of years in one-on-one action and he may be in the best streak of his career
02:26right now
02:26yeah his last loss of course was to world heavyweight champ c.m. punk and c.m. punk himself the
02:33great
02:33c.m. punk said he doesn't feel he beat gunther he feels he just survived
02:38the referee in this match is dan england he refereed many of aj styles matches back when
02:49styles was the uh the man who ran tnn
02:57will this be the final time we see styles compete in the ring or will he knock off the ring
03:04general
03:04and keep his career alive hear that audience suddenly firing up their willing aj styles to
03:10victory they're very quiet on aj's entrance because there was a severe sense of dread of foreboding because
03:17the consequences of this match are almost too great for this audience to enjoy so if you're aj
03:23styles what do you have to do to win this match tonight well you've got to figure out that gunther
03:28simply has no weakness even when you have him in the center of the ring bang to rights and a
03:32calf crusher
03:33as we saw several weeks ago in dusseldorf germany he's still not beaten let me interrupt you
03:38gunther may have an achilles heel so to speak he has tapped out on a couple of occasions
03:44and he tapped out a few weeks ago as you mentioned to aj styles whether it was a ruse or
03:48it wasn't
03:49he was caught in the calf crusher and he did tap i'll correct one thing you just said you said
03:54he
03:54has achilles heels i will say he had achilles heels when he's been beaten in the past he will
04:00never be beaten the same way again he goes back to the drawing guard and corrects that styles right
04:04back to the calf going to be a point of attack as he looks to soften up gunther for the
04:09calf
04:09crusher here tonight i mean we will never truly know if gunther was genuinely tapping out on the
04:16aforementioned calf crusher or if it was just a ruse so if that is the point of attack we may
04:21find out
04:22the truth tonight i asked aj why why 2026 i mean 25 year career but he's still in the best
04:29shape of his
04:30life he moves great in the ring he said i want people to remember me like this i want people
04:35to
04:35remember me at the top of my game i don't want to hang on for a number of years and
04:39be a shell of
04:40myself and you have to applaud that absolutely it's noble but it is high risk against someone like
04:47gunther and let me add this to the mix what has aj done over the past seven days he's been
04:53in absolute
04:54wars with shinsuke nakamura and cm punk gunther nicely rested been in the gym worked on his prep
05:02and completely ready to end this career tonight aj's strategy uh early is the leg of gunther soften
05:10him up for the calf crusher yeah you're right it is going for that leg soften him up that's a
05:14physical
05:15attack but also it's a mental attack on gunther saying i know your weakness i'm going to get you again
05:19and then uh hit gunther his own chops and now gunther with a side headlock wrestling aj to the mat
05:25aj
05:25styles career began back in 2001 with a handful of tag matches and wcw had a handful of matches in
05:33wwe at that point in time as well before he went on to become the mega star at tna went
05:40on to new
05:40japan became a world champ came to the wwe a decade ago at the royal rumble 2016 went on to
05:47win a couple of
05:48wwe championships united states and intercontinental titles yeah he's a man who's done it all and is
05:54certainly not ready for it to end tonight unlike gunther but going back to that that fake tap out we
06:00talked about in that match in dusseldorf what's gunther always prided himself on the match is sacred
06:06right but that was the cheapest win of his entire career and to gunther that was a stable nice drop
06:13kick
06:14by styles i got a question for you gunther has declared for the royal rumble match later tonight
06:19he's in that match do you think he's looking ahead to that and the opportunity to main event
06:24wrestlemania and maybe not completely focused on styles i mean it might be that what i suspect though
06:30it's a simple message being sent to aj styles i'm so confident that i'm gonna wipe the floor with you
06:36in your retirement match i'm also gonna go and win the royal rumble and after a slow start here from
06:43gunther things have suddenly picked up right in the solar plexus of aj styles take another look at
06:51this the level of impact first with that shot and second the landing the flip landing of aj on the
06:57floor
06:57aj struggling to breathe i'm not surprised at this at all you wouldn't expect gutther and now dropping
07:04styles on the table just smashing our monitors in the process that's the point i was making i wouldn't
07:11expect gutther to want to count out victory of aj styles he wants to tap out aj he promised to
07:16do
07:16that tonight and styles driven in to the ring post and i'll tell you right now i was watching that
07:21irish
07:22whip into the ring post normally you try and resist that there was no resistance at all from aj aj's
07:27in a
07:27bad way here
07:3525 000 here tonight in riyadh trying to will on aj styles to dig down deep but a chop by
07:43this terminator
07:44like gunther drops aj
07:50and now styles whipped into the barricades
07:55styles is looking like jelly even in the early goings here as a serious mischief big dog to the
08:03midsection of aj styles who's grabbing that sternum repeatedly i'll tell you right now movement is one
08:09thing with a crack sternum breathing is another thing well hey here's the problem with gunther too
08:14he's relentless he has no mercy no absence of malice in gunther he just keeps coming at you
08:24will not give you a chance to breathe and aj styles having problems breathing now as the ribs went into
08:30the barricade well in here with tactics clearly was gunther and you're right he's as callous as ruthless
08:38and as barbaric as they come when he gets the upper hand you know wait i had that sit down
08:44interview
08:44with him on raw monday night i was looking into his eyes this man relishes the opportunity to end
08:50people's careers it drives him it makes him what he is today yeah and it adds to the massive aura
08:57that
08:57this man has built up over the years just crossing off names retiring your favorites
09:05all of them hall of famers well you notice blood on gunther the official has gloves on
09:12i wonder if aj's been busted open i can't quite see yeah there's blood speared on both men here
09:17it's on the forearm of aj too it's kind of all over the body i don't quite oh what a
09:21back body drop
09:22quite no where that blood oh there it is there's a cut right on that left forearm of aj styles
09:29i think
09:29it may have happened when he came down hard on the announce table look at the height in this back
09:33body
09:34drop as gunther just flings him to the mat well the obvious damage of course is to that left forearm
09:39i think you're right i think you're smashed against our monitor but the true story is the sternum of aj
09:45well gunther promised that he was going to tap out aj styles can he do it with a boston crab
09:50in the middle of the ring
09:52gunther screaming ask him ask him this has all gone horribly wrong right from the start for aj styles
10:00and aj trying to reverse the pressure here onto his back now fighting out of it styles is relentless
10:07as they come as resilient as anyone in that kick right to the ribs again and aj's having some problems
10:14breathing relentless the word you just used for aj is similarly true perhaps even more so
10:19for this man gunther once he gets the upper hand and it's that slow pace methodical at times but
10:28little wasted motion one word gunther wants to use and that's punish punish his opponents punish them
10:36into submission i mean there are so many strengths to gunther you could write a book about the man but
10:44one of his biggest ones has to be his callous nature his mind is a compassion free zone aj knows
10:52it and
10:52aj building up some momentum here yeah there's no give up and aj styles styles now with a kick to
10:58gunther maybe he
10:59has gunther on the ropes a bit here styles now with gunther up and down waist lock by gunther missed
11:04with
11:04a clothesline paylay kick by aj aj blocking out the pain now and he really needed to get something going
11:11because this was slipping away in a hurry and with it the career of the phenomenal one
11:19this match is for the career of aj styles aj must win to continue on in wwe if he loses
11:31he goes home
11:32i'll tell you right now cole you're in the ring against gunther gunther is a strategic expert you
11:38need to have all your faculties you need a game plan it's tough to do that for aj with the
11:44weight of the
11:45the world on his shoulders knowing what is lurking with a loss and looking to take gunther out of
11:49his uh his comfort zone here and this is good from aj needs to pick up the pace go as
11:55fast as
11:56possible tough to do with a busted sternum but he's managing it dials into the corner now with gunther
12:02up on his shoulders down goes gunther knee to the neck cover hook to the leg gunther kicks on it
12:09too
12:10so close for styles i mean you gotta go for broke now if you're aj styles and he's doing exactly
12:16that
12:16there's nothing to be left on the table tonight and that knee to the back of the neck of gunther
12:21may
12:22well have changed things in a big way here
12:26you know the wheels are turning the cerebral aj styles trying to think a couple of steps ahead here
12:32what he needs to do to keep gunther down is he looking for a styles class but gunther now and
12:38there's the
12:38roll through by styles oh here we go has him in possession gunther could be in trouble but couldn't
12:43quite lock it in scorpion kick to the head of aj style to get out of that followed by the
12:47old
12:47baseball bat like clothesline and the cover and a near fall it's old school as they come just a
12:54swinging lariat straight away out of the disaster that almost profound gunther there with that
13:00attempted styles clash just old school i guarantee you the hall of famer jbl with a big smile on his
13:07face after that lariat like clothesline from the ring general yeah as old school as they come is gunther
13:15would thrive in any era going back over a hundred years oh you think about stan hansen
13:23aj looking to roll through into the cap crusher here gunther's felt this before looking to hang on
13:28we're going to hold onto the top rope to prevent that roll through that was really smart and it
13:32goes back to what i was saying he never gets caught the same way twice oh he's a complete student
13:37of
13:37the game he lives and breathes this sport
13:48this slow plow around the ring when he's got aj down that's just gunther going through his list of ideas
13:55in his mind his strategies he's put together by styles styles looking for the calf crusher and gunther
14:01gets to the ropes and aj locking it in he's got a five count gunther clearly panicked on that one
14:08but smartly immediately on the rope did some damage though you do have that five count as you mentioned
14:14to break yeah but think about the embarrassment for gunther wade if he tapped out to aj styles tonight
14:21it's maybe partly physical partly flashbacks remember they're remembering the pain of that
14:27matching dusseldorf and the desperate measures that were required to get out of it oh and there is
14:32that dinosaur dropkick from gunther and gunther now lifting styles up
14:41power bomb to aj stacks him up will this be it styles stays in it man you saw that over
14:48rotation
14:49attempt from aj at the top of that power bomb trying to get over the other side for a roll
14:54through gunther just too strong let's not forget after a low blow of course that power bomb is what
15:00finished off aj in their first match gunther learning a lot about the the guts of aj styles and what
15:11has
15:12made him one of the greatest competitors on this planet for the past 25 years here's part of the issue
15:17is ray j stars of course he is the veteran we talk about his 25 plus years at the top
15:22he's never
15:23competed against anyone quite like gunther so all of that knowledge all that experience you don't
15:28have that much to pull on when you're in there against gunther
15:36i have never actually taken one and i never intend to but i promise you from talking to the guys
15:42in the
15:43locker room a it's the initial sting b is the feeling of fire burning through aj rose through
15:49again he went for the leg look at the cap pressure now on gunther now they're toward the center of
15:53the
15:53ring gunther trying to try to somehow stay in it but styles has got it locked in will gunther tap
15:59out
16:00yeah i guarantee you the ref is hyper aware about gunther's tactics here for a tap out if he does
16:06try
16:07something smart smart by styles rolling back away from the ropes and this is the exact moment gunther
16:14tapped out in the last match is he going to do it again at a great point the official dan
16:18angler
16:19putting himself in perfect position to see what gunther does and now gunther trying to power his way out of
16:24this a sleeper a sleeper now locked into styles and now styles trying to hang on he's got to get
16:30back to a vertical base and create space well that was desperation from gunther he couldn't get the
16:35heels hooked in but he has no he hasn't reversal soldiers are down and it forces gunther to break and
16:41now styles quickly into a sleeper trying to power out there is the big man gunther it does so and
16:47now
16:47once again locked into aj in the middle of the ring this is where gunther is so dangerous
16:52once he gets it locked in it's so hard to break but gunther jumped out to the floor and it
16:57buys aj
16:58critical time here wow that one just swung back and forth about five or six times in the space of
17:0430
17:04seconds shows you how dangerous these two men are shows you how deep their forms of attack can run and
17:11styles now with a phenomenal forearm as he launches himself over the top rope to the floor come on aj
17:20it was a bullseye shot from aj unfortunately for aj wrong side of the ropes and gunther down he might
17:28be ko'd he's stirring now but aj needs to get that carcass of the big austrian back in the ring
17:34and finish
17:35the job aj gonna send gunther back into the ring styles uh trying to do what he can to stay
17:44in this match
17:44styles is completely locked in you feel the pressure has now left him he's simply in fight mode and
17:50fighting freely
17:54and styles go to the top rope took too much time and gunther quickly back to his feet delivering a
17:59chop
18:00it's so difficult to move at your usual speed especially for a pacey guy like aj when you've
18:05been beaten to a pulp by this absolute monster now what does gunther have in mind
18:16trying to turn aj into a superplex aj slips underneath though he's got gunther in trouble
18:23gunther though lands on his feet hooks styles looking for the power bomb
18:30styles with one of his own stacks up gunther for the win gunther kicks down just a taste of his
18:37own
18:37medicine for gunther and it is a rarity that you see gunther being hit with his own move like that
18:45well that would have been a major shock to the system to the ring general of course the height of
18:50aj not the same as gunther the impact therefore not being quite as great but almost a three count and
18:59almost salvation for the career of aj styles but wait what's important for styles now is this the
19:04matches is deep now and gunther hasn't been able to put him away in fact aj is in control gunther's
19:10got
19:10to have that in his head and aj's lining up something big here he tastes victory off the top
19:17aj styles springboard 450 connects and styles looking for the styles clash gunther's fighting it but
19:28it's lost
19:28styles clashes in come on aj aj into the cover shoulders down gunther kicked out oh god
19:38oh god watch this springboard 450 you stack this move immediately with your biggest hitter of them all
19:47on that massive frame the styles clash it's over it's one it's two it's not over guys it's never over
19:56against gunther what does that do to you mentally i mean it's a shock to the system to everyone in
20:03this arena everyone watching at home but aj styles thought he was in winners enclosure he thought the
20:10career was safe it's not what else have you got aj and i would say one tug of that elbow
20:16pad tells us
20:17exactly what is coming next gunther slow to his feet aj styles on the apron looking for his signature
20:24move here style is going to launch himself off the top rope went for the phenomenal four-arm caught in
20:29the sleeper by gunther aj able to switch into a sleeper of his own and gunther now grabbing the
20:35official that was a low blow behind the referee's back he grabbed the official and delivered a low blow
20:42into a power bomb stacks up aj not like this styles kicks out
20:49well the combo that beat aj styles in dusseldorf three weeks ago simply didn't work tonight that damn
20:58dirty gunther grabbed the official to blind the official and then deliver that mule kick to styles
21:05going down low into the power bomb and styles survived well both men at this point at least
21:13in their own minds have had this match won only for their opponent to kick out and keep it alive
21:19and gunther is not responding well gunther screaming at the official said it should have been a three
21:26count aj styles trying to drag himself back to his feet on what could be the final match of his
21:32career
21:32when the dirty tricks come out it's because gunther is is in a major desperate desperate but gunther still
21:40has the upper hand aj's reeling
21:45and now a chop to styles from gunther
21:54gunther just punishing styles torturing styles now barbarism begins here in riyadh
22:04styles may regret kicking out of that last combo
22:10because it only gets worse from here well the official dan angler trying to show some mercy for
22:15styles there and gunther says the hell with that gunther's become completely unglued at this point
22:20well he thought he had the three count wade well he's normally in full control
22:24well this could play to aj's advantage if he could somehow climb back into this it's difficult to say
22:29see a way back in so beaten up so tortured at this point
22:39relentless chops after chop after chop
22:43he might get disqualified he's got to be careful gunther gunther's got to be extremely careful
22:51referee may even throw this out aj looks like a there's no way there's no way the official could
22:56do that with everything that's on the line here i get that he has to protect competitors when
23:01competitors cannot fight back
23:18and another one aj can't even get his hands up styles has been defenseless from these chops he just
23:25collapses into gunther tolerance is great from aj he should have given up a long time ago he's up
23:32as ugly as it comes and we talked about gunther's mind being a compassion free zone this is why
23:39this man is the most dangerous man in professional wrestling take it from me this man likes no one
23:48this man is all about himself doesn't care what he does to his competitors all he cares about is the
23:55win
23:57absolutely pitiless and he's willing aj to get up and take more of this abuse styles back to his feet
24:03styles brush it off his chest almost almost like he was calling for more and here comes styles fighting
24:08back with the forearms and a top of his own and styles with a flurry
24:16and aj beating down gunther even gone through a taste of his own medicine fighting fire with fire
24:22where the hell is aj pulling this from it's about his career everything hangs in the balance weight you
24:29have to do everything you can to win this match aj looked like a dead man walking but there's life
24:35still in the phenomenal water hey cock in the elbow went with a phenomenal forearm gunther though
24:41with aj on his shoulders
24:45aj lands on his feet sleeper he was trying for the pele but gunther caught him in a sleeper well
24:51gunther's gone for this sleeper several times he hasn't had the heels locked him up
24:55aj in a severely weakened state is fading and the sleeper hold locked in the arm slipped underneath the
25:01chin look at the positioning of gunther putting all his own weight on top of the frame of aj and
25:07aj's
25:07now aj's fading although the hooks the hooks are in now aj styles how much does aj have left can
25:14he fight
25:15back here high drama at the rumble lips are turning blue oh they tap out here he is
25:21styles fighting back gunther trying to keep the sleeper locked in
25:27and you gotta wonder was that aj styles last gasp effort well the lights are really faded now cold
25:36aj's gonna tap here there's no way out
25:42aj trying to fight trying to fight his arms still going trying to still fight out of guther delivering
25:49those shots now to the leg of guther aj on his belly but guther still with that sleeper locked in
25:54not even more pressure put on the body of aj as he's desperately trying to suck in some air trying
25:59to make
25:59the ropes aj fingertips away can he make it to the ropes to force a break here and survive so
26:05close
26:05tantalizingly close to some respite and faded again oh no aj styles can he make it to the ropes how
26:13much
26:13does aj have left he's a fingertip away guther drags him back drags him back away from the ropes guther
26:20just
26:20has all the answers whatever you try he has a reply for it oh this is getting damn ugly now
26:29and now the sweeper really locked in aj with nowhere to go aj styles how much does aj have left
26:40the career the legacy of aj styles fades to black
27:06here's your winner the ring general
27:23the lore
27:26of gunther
27:29grows
27:31the mystique heightened
27:35the career killer is indeed just that
27:44notice aj when he woke up
27:47i think it's finally
27:52dawning on him now he's asking the official what happened
27:58i don't think i've ever heard a crowd as packed as this fall so silent in shock and this was
28:04just the
28:05a small piece of the absolute brutal warfare that gunther brought tonight and it looked like aj was done
28:14these were the final embers burning in aj desperately trying to get something started and this was the end
28:20here the beginning of the end going for that phenomenal forearm gunther had it scouted
28:27and then straight into this sleeper and it was a long long time in that sleeper
28:33aj trying anything and everything desperately grinding out of there time and again and everything
28:40aj tried gunther came up with something else and finally look at the pain on the referee's face he
28:48doesn't want to do this but he has to it's his job the career's over
28:52aj is out you got to feel for the official long time friend of aj styles
28:57you have to feel for the 25 000 here tonight and the millions watching at home
29:06it's all history but i'm glad in history you ever want to be a witness
29:38that's good
29:50Grazie a tutti.
30:23Grazie a tutti.
30:54Grazie a tutti.
31:24Grazie a tutti.
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