WWE Rumor Roundup - Superstar was told he won't be World Champion due to his hair, Real-life heat between Finn Balor and another star, Why AJ Styles got mad and more - 17th July 2020

#2. AJ Styles moved to WWE SmackDown due to Paul Heyman

The rumors of the apparent backstage friction in WWE between Paul Heyman and AJ Styles are true. Not only are they real, but the relationship between the two veterans could be irreparable at this point, if all the details revealed by Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are to be believed.

Karl Anderson revealed he had heard that their releases happened because of Paul Heyman. A person backstage confirmed the story to AJ Styles and The Phenomenal One then confronted Heyman regarding the same.

The Executive Director of RAW denied the story which forced Styles to go straight to Vince McMahon. The WWE boss confirmed that Heyman was indeed responsible for Gallows and Anderson getting fired from WWE. McMahon also revealed that The Good Brothers were not on the original list of people who were supposed to get cut.

AJ Styles was naturally unhappy with Paul Heyman and decided that he could not work with the former ECW boss on RAW, before being moved to SmackDown.

Styles had even revealed during a recent stream on his Mixer account that Heyman is a 'bold-faced liar'.

"He's (Heyman) a liar. Now you know, I'm sure you have heard that going back to his ECW days, you'll hear that. He's a bold-faced liar."