{"id":5933,"date":"2015-12-15T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2015-12-15T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T19:37:57","slug":"5933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/15\/5933\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A.J. Styles interested in WWE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1748968687\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>In a new interview, A.J. Styles made it sound like feelers have been put out\u00a0about his interest in WWE, but he has not been formally contacted about joining the NXT roster, which now features several former TNA colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had a call from someone who wants to hire me,&#8221; Styles said on the <a href=\"http:\/\/tmptow.podomatic.com\/entry\/2015-12-14T21_00_00-08_00\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling&#8221; podcast<\/a>. &#8220;So nothing really and I&#8217;m okay with that and that&#8217;s not a big deal to me. I think it&#8217;s more of the fans wanting something like this to happen than what I am wanting to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Styles added that he&#8217;s looking to retire &#8220;in a couple of years,&#8221; so he is open to having one career run in WWE, but he enjoys being an independent wrestler, working for Ring of Honor, and wrestling in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to support my family and I am going to go wherever that takes me. 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