Soon he was told that he’d be working with Randy Orton and this came as a shock to him. He had to learn very quickly because working as a main-eventer is very different than any other spot on the card. After working with Orton and A.J. Styles on a live event tour for a few weeks he became more accustomed to working on top, and just hours before he was set to meet Orton at Backlash, he was told by McMahon that he’d be defeating Orton for the WWE Championship.
Mahal informs that working with A.J. Styles was a tremendous learning experience for him. While he learned a lot from Styles in the ring, he points out that Styles is also a great guy and a terrific family man. Mahal considers Styles to be the greatest traditional “white-meat” babyface on WWE’s roster today.
Mahal mentions that he was really looking forward to working with Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series last year, but that match didn’t happen. He suspected that match would be the greatest match of his career, but he hopes to have that match at some point in the future. He was told that plans had changed and he was going to drop the Title to Styles before Survivor Series, and he was perfectly okay with that. He knew that he couldn’t be Champion forever, and business is business.
That sums up today’s episode of Chasing Glory. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya next week for another recap!
