Low Ki comments on AJ Styles reaching a great level of success in WWE.
Low Ki and AJ Styles are two of the building blocks of both TNA Wrestling and Ring of Honor. Both men would eventually make it to WWE with polar opposite results. Low Ki was brought in as an NXT rookie named Kaval and lasted less than a year on main roster television. AJ Styles, on the other hand, debuted in the 2016 Royal Rumble competing for the WWE Championship, and would go on to win that championship on multiple occasions and even successfully defend the title at WrestleMania.
During an appearance on Thats Wrestling!, Ki said he wasn't surprised by AJ Styles' level of success in WWE, noting that once people saw how he was treated during his run, they would never allow anything like that to happen to AJ.
"I wasn't surprised at all, because the whole world had seen what they did to me. That gave an opening for everyone after me to actually stand a chance. They're not going to sit there and allow them to be treated like I was. Me, I quietly allowed them to show their cards of how they treat their people, but physically in the ring, I was still outclassing everybody," he said. "AJ is at a higher level. He's at the main event level, but he has the pedigree for that, so he can pull that off. His physicality for being at the main event level is at a higher level than their main event is. He's definitely a main event performer, main event wrestler.
"It's not a surprise why he was allowed to advance. You can deny him," Ki continued. "He actually has some moral integrity. Again, at the beginning of the 2000s, they tried to hire him and send him to OVW. He said no because he wasn't going to uproot his family and have his wife not be able to complete [college]. So, he has some Integrity about him to not allow certain things to happen."
Continuing on, Ki would say it would have been a slap in the face to put AJ in NXT after his run as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion.
"His success and advancement, it's far removed from me. He was years after I was there but even me being removed from WWE, I didn't tone down my skill to accommodate anybody. So his advancement in the WWE wasn't a surprise. It was just a sign of the times. He was capable of doing that and he rode the momentum that he gained internationally by pulling off the win for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship," he said. "Now, he's on the world main event level. So, it's not a surprise. What are they going to do, put him on NXT and keep him on a sub-card? That would be a slap in the face and that would be a miscalculation on the booking strategy."
Learn more about Low Ki's time on the main roster in WWE and the ideas he pitched for himself here.
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