I was thinking about the AJ/Gallows/Anderson stuff on RAW. It seemed a little soft and almost too much of a foreshadowing. My first thought was "They're going to beat-down Styles and we're going to get him and a partner versus Gallows & Anderson at MITB." Finn Balor crossed my mind, but then I thought about John Cena needing something to do. I'm not really keen on seeing him facing Rusev again this early on. Cena vs. Del Rio is also too...meh. It's no fault of Del Rio's, but he just doesn't feel "major" at this point.
Then I thought to myself: I think Anderson was the guy saying "I hope you reconsider" or something as they were walking off from Styles -- who then lost his match clean. What if next week they have Cena cutting a promo in the ring about some unfinished business he has, then Gallows & Anderson come waltzing out. They head to the ring and start to beat on Cena. AJ Styles hits the ring and pulls them off...then he starts beating Cena too.
AJ Styles & The Club were listed as house show opponents for like Cena, Reigns & Ambrose or something. Styles deciding that maybe he does need them could be an interesting turn of events for him. Thinking of potential New Day opponents at Money in the Bank too -- and you do have to consider them somewhat of a priority for the company at this point -- Gallows & Anderson are the best fit. You can have them re-align with Styles who challenges Cena while they going after the tag straps.
Cena vs. Styles would be something special. AJ is also arguably one of the best workers in the company, so if someone can drag something out of a 60% John Cena, he's as good an option as anyone not currently in the Ladder Match. Eventually you bring in Finn Balor as the fourth man to The Club and build tensions between him and Styles.
It's potentially a lot of turns for Styles, but he's going to be cheered against Cena anyway, so it could kind of be a "shades of grey" thing, like what they were doing with Styles and Reigns. But they seemed to distance themselves from that this week on RAW. I guess you could also have Cena vs. Styles completely babyface with the ever-looming threat of Anderson & Gallows hanging over the match. I'd mark the fuck out if they helped John Cena, but that's not happening.
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