Reactions to Nikki Bella's heel turn, John Cena defeating Dirty Dom and more, plus an exclusive interview with "The Phenomenal One" AJ Styles

The Rich Eisen Show

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4.3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

WWE Superstar AJ Styles joins O'Shea and T.J. to discuss his legendary career from humble beginnings in Georgia, through his time at WCW, TNA, Ring of Honor, to now as part of the current WWE Tag Team Championship. AJ discusses the favorite matches of his epic career (including against John Cena at Crown Jewel 2025), what he wants to accomplish in the final year of his legendary WWE run, and could a long awaited rematch against CM Punk be in the future? Also, being the avid gamer, AJ reveals his top 5 video games of all-time, and you won't believe how AJ used his 5-year old future brother-in-law to develop "The Styles Clash". Additionally, T.J. and O'Shea give their reactions to John Cena defeating Dominik Mysterio for the IC Championship, Nikki Bella's heel turn, the Kabuki Warriors winning the Tag Team Championship, and WAR GAMES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls, children of all ages.
0:10.6	Welcome to a Wednesday, like the good old days, Wednesday episode of the No Contest Wrestling
0:17.9	podcast.
0:18.9	I am the hill that you love to hate.
0:38.1	O'Shea Jackson Jr. A. K.A. Petty Guerrero. Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the T.O. The J.I.G.2. T.J. Jefferson. What up, though? Man, I love Wednesdays. Man, Wednesdays. It just feels so much. You know what that means, man. You know what I mean? A little hump, dog.
0:40.3	Hump, day.
0:55.1	Got a great, great, great show today, man. Normally we tease a little bit and then we, but let's just tell him. We got the phenomenal A.J. Stiles coming at you today, baby. Can't wait. We're going to talk about everything. Yeah. I mean, he's done everything.
1:12.5	Yeah. So, like, you have to bring it up. We're going to talk about his start time and other promotions. We're going to talk about gaming. I know that. I know, I know you got about 12 pages of gaming notes ready for, for AJ. So, yeah, it'll be good. would talk about, man, as much time as he wants to give us.
1:13.2	Yeah, man.
1:14.1	We don't be here for it.
1:11.7	But yeah, I mean mean he's got a catalog of matches
1:16.5	that are second to none he's got a resume that's second to none um you know his name is not the okay
1:22.9	a j stowles his name's not the he i AJ Stowls. His name is not pretty good,
1:28.7	AJ.
1:28.8	No,
1:29.0	no,
1:29.1	no,
1:29.3	his name is the phenomenal. The phenomenal. A. J. Stiles. So we'll be having him very shortly. But man, let's talk about the last few days, I guess, since we were on the mic last week, man,
1:44.0	some wild stuff got on me,
1:45.4	a few new
1:45.9	champions. Yeah. And in the
1:48.0	WWE, we got new tag
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