AJ Styles says the decline of WWE live events is making it harder for wrestlers to call matches on the fly. Speaking on the Phenomenally Retro Podcast:
"Here's what's hard with that now. I think a lot of the older guys who said, 'Nah, we'll call it in the ring, kid,' well, a lot of times they had the ability to wrestle so many different guys and they were able to call it in the ring because they weren't sidelined by time limits or whatever. The more I wrestle one guy, 'Hey man, we'll just do what we did here,' and boom, and it's that quick. But we're not having live events like that anymore so guys aren't getting any reps with each other."
"I think that it's going to be a lot harder to call. Yeah, sure, we can call the basic stuff, but sometimes basic isn't very entertaining and that's our job, is to be as entertaining as we possibly can. So I think that's going to be more difficult as time goes on."
Styles also clarified what modern WWE talent actually rehearses before a match:
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