WWE NXT star dishes on viral AJ Styles conversation at Royal Rumble

WWE NXT prima Kelani Jordan entered the women’s Royal Rumble lucifer arsenic the 27th subordinate successful the match, hoping to triumph the lawsuit and publication a summons to WrestleMania 42.

Jordan didn’t extremity up winning the lucifer but made a immense impact. She went to the apical enactment and deed a Phoenix Splash. She was past capable to showcase her gymnastic stylings successful the ringing erstwhile she took down Bayley, Liv Morgan, Jacy Jayne and Raquel Rodriguez.

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AJ Styles during the Royal Rumble The Dome astatine America's Center connected Jan. 29, 2022. (Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports)

WWE cameras caught Jordan talking with AJ Styles backstage. The video showed Styles whispering thing into Jordan’s ear. Jordan aboriginal praised Styles arsenic her mentor.

"AJ Styles is awesome, I mean, phenomenal. But helium was idiosyncratic erstwhile I was virtually possibly similar 2 oregon 3 months successful astatine the Performance Center and I was grooming and I remembered helium happened to beryllium there," she told Fox News Digital. "He was really successful the ringing and worked with maine and trained with me. I was truthful caller and retrieve him telling maine aboriginal connected – lone similar 2 oregon 3 months successful – helium was like, you person thing special, support going, judge successful yourself, and conscionable support pushing yourself. He’s like, you person thing peculiar and that was precise aboriginal connected truthful him being capable to spot maine erstwhile I was lone 2 to 3 months successful and present being successful my first-ever Rumble, it was similar conscionable a brainsick moment.

Kelani Jordan enters the ringing during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center connected Jan. 13, 2026, successful Orlando, Florida.  (Conor Kvatek/WWE via Getty Images)

"After the Rumble, helium conscionable mentioned however arrogant helium was of me, however I kept my ft connected the gas, I kept pushing, I didn’t let thing to halt maine and I took the risk. The Phoenix Splash was thing I was benignant of questioning should I bash it, should I spell for it? This is simply a large stage, what if it doesn’t spell well? And I retrieve him telling me, he’s like, without risk, there’s nary reward. You spell for it, you sprout for the stars. And past it went good and I retrieve helium told maine ne'er hide that, ne'er uncertainty yourself, judge successful yourself due to the fact that you tin bash it. And truthful that was conscionable thing similar … helium believed successful maine successful that infinitesimal much than I believed successful myself."

Styles mislaid to Gunther astatine the Royal Rumble, forcing him into retirement.

As helium celebrated a agelong vocation connected "Monday Night Raw," The Undertaker appeared and fto Styles cognize helium was going to beryllium a portion of the WWE Hall of Fame people of 2026.

AJ Styles enters the arena during WrestleMania astatine AT&T Stadium connected April 3, 2022.  (Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports)

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For Jordan, she made a valiant effort to decision Lola Vice successful an underground lucifer astatine NXT Vengeance Day. However, Vice got the amended of her.

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