WWE: AJ Styles totally invented a match stipulation vs. The Undertaker
AJ Styles will get the beating he asked for at WrestleMania 36 when he takes on The Undertaker, but he’s decided to ask for a stipulation that apparently doesn’t exist in WWE.
Since joining WWE, AJ Styles has faced Chris Jericho, Shane McMahon, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Randy Orton at WrestleMania, and he’ll have his biggest match yet at the Show of Shows in 2020.
After losing a Gauntlet Match to The Undertaker at Super ShowDown, Styles called out The Dead Man for a match at WrestleMania. Perhaps he’s bitten off much more than he can show – judging by how nervous he looked last week on Raw, he probably has – but it does seem like he’s taken the “evil plan” route.
On the Mar. 23 episode of Monday Night Raw, Styles made some crude jokes at The Undertaker’s expense – because OF COURSE he did – and then challenged The Phenom to a Boneyard match.
A Boneyard match.
A Boneyard match?
Yes. You read that correctly. A Boneyard match.
Not a Graveyard match. No, no…a BONEYARD match.
What the hell is that? It appears the official WWE Twitter account is even surprised at this stipulation.
Does a Boneyard match even exist in WWE canon? Please, historians, enlighten me. Is it like a Buried Alive match? Does it take place in a Graveyard? Is the object of the game to eviscerate someone and bury their skeleton? Will Kane and/or Paul Bearer be making an appearance? Is Vince McMahon screwing with us? (The answer is always yes.)
But I’m intrigued. AJ Styles is an evil man who seems even more deranged than the last time he teamed up with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in 2016 when he took the WWE Title from John Cena.
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Styles is desperate to make a name for himself at WrestleMania, to the point where he’s challenging a man with magical powers at an event where he obtains superpowers to a Boneyard match. If anyone could claim a “Boneyard” match to be their “thing”, then it would be Taker.
WWE is taping matches for WrestleMania 36 soon, so I wonder if this could be a specially taped match with graphics and all sorts of weird things. John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt may be the same. If that’s the case, we can only hope WWE have learned from the doomed House of Horrors match.
As Byron Saxton warned Styles on the broadcast, be careful what you wish for.