AJ Styles made history on Tuesday night by becoming the first Superstar in history to capture the WWE Championship outside North America. It marks the beginning of Styles’ second WWE title reign.
Styles tweeted the following message on Wednesday morning, thanking the fans of Manchester for the reaction he received.
Judging by the reaction in Manchester last night after winning the WWE championship you’d think I was from the UK. Truth is, I’ve spent a lot of time in this part of the world and they have always treated me as one of their own. Thank you
— AJ Styles (@AJStylesOrg) November 8, 2017
By becoming WWE Champion, Styles bumped Jinder Mahal out of the main event of Survivor Series and will now face WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar.
As of this writing, the video of AJ Styles defeating Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship posted 13 hours ago is approaching 1.4 million views on YouTube.