AJ Styles Enters Social Media Spat Over Son Avery

Avery Styles, the son of AJ Styles, has begun embarking on a professional wrestling career, competing in the likes of GCW. After WWE superstar Nattie (formerly known as Natalya) took some time to commend Avery Styles on social media for being willing to “pay his dues”, regular GCW competitor Arik Cannon took some issue with this, leading to a social media spat with Avery’s father. 

Cannon took to social media to claim that Avery was not willing to help out at GCW. 

“As someone who watched this kid skirt away from helping with a single thing at this very show… I’d just like to say: L O F’ING L !”

This prompted a response from WWE Hall Of Famer AJ Styles. 

“He was paid to wrestle at GCW, not help you put up and take down the ring. That sounds like your job. You just sound like a jealous douche.”

Cannon came back with a retort. 

“I have all of the respect in the world for you, AJ. I understand why you’d defend your son, and it is admirable. But the fact remains… He can stay “AJ’s kid”, continue to skirt responsibility, & paying dues. Or he can earn the respect of his peers, & stand on his own as Avery.”

Styles replied by comparing his son to a dinner guest, claiming that Avery was very grateful for the opportunity too. 

“You don’t ask someone to have dinner at your house and have them do the dishes. He was asked to wrestle at GCW. Although grateful for the opportunity, a vet would have talked to him professionally or at least face to face.”

Cannon closed out the exchange (for now), claiming that Avery hid in the locker room after being asked to help. 

“A 20+ year vet & promoter asked him to help w/ the chairs. TWICE! Instead of helping, he hid in the locker room until everything was done. My 2 cents isn’t going to affect his future… But with all due respect, you stating he doesn’t need to help is only doing him a disservice.”

AJ Styles has been in news plenty recently due to his podcast seeing him share opinions across an array of topics, including WWE’s release of The New Day and Motor City Machine Guns and revealing the names he brought to WWE’s SummerSlam tryout.