Here's why AJ Styles could win this time

We are now out of the 24-hour WWE Crown Jewel events and, judging by early reviews, the results of each match have found a way to inspire and shock critics. Mainly anger.

Most of this anger comes from the public who saw Brock Lesnar grab the vacant world championship in his match against Braun Strowman. If the fans are not unhappy because Strowman has practically not offended, they too are because the idea of ​​a second reign of the Brock Lesnar World Championship does not seem ideal.

This is especially true after Roman's brief reign, which reminded us of what a champion looks like every week, even if it only lasts three months. Now, with Lesnar as universal champion again, he's back to the same old, same old.

However, even our most cynical readers can rest assured that Lesnar wins the title again. You see, he was not the only one to have left Saudi Arabia as world champion.

Earlier in the night, AJ Styles retained its WWE title against Samoa Joe. Our next pay-per-view destination will be the WWE Survivor Series 2018 in a few weeks. Anyone who knows about WWE Raw's annual gimmick vs. SmackDown for PPV should know what this means for the best champions of each brand.

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Last year, Styles and Brock Lesnar competed in the Survivor Series as the best champions of their brand. Considering the match was hailed as one of the best games of the year and the most competitive since Lesnar launched his gimmick Suplex City, a rematch would certainly not be a bad thing.

A rematch is especially appealing, knowing that Styles has a better chance of beating Lesnar than last year.

We know, we know, on paper, that Styles wins a victory over Brock Lesnar sounds more like wishful thinking than something we should expect soon. After all, Brock Lesnar is Brock Lesnar. And AJ Styles, that's fine, AJ Styles.

Styles is not offended, but if the WWE did not allow the Men Braun Strowman monster to be offended against Brock Lesnar yesterday, then Styles has an unimaginable chance to beat the former UFC champion.

At least, that's how it appears on paper. However, as for all "paper", the characters are fine. In the fine print, we see that Styles has a chance – no matter how small – to raise his hand in the next round.

Here's why.

Let's go back to the last Survivor series. Lesnar is Universal champion since WrestleMania 33 and, aside from a crushing defeat against Goldberg's previous Survivor Series, he has rarely lost a match since the end of The Undertaker's undefeated winning streak. Lesnar was essentially being built to eventually lose a torch relay match against Roman Reigns – which he finally did at SummerSlam 2018 – and was designed to look unbeatable.

Styles, meanwhile, had spent much of 2017 in the smart card, and it was only a few weeks before the Survivor Series where he was catapulted to become the champion who runs the camp once it's over. He defeated Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship. All things considered, while Styles made a surprisingly strong effort against The Beast, it made more sense for Brock Lesnar to win his match.

Now that Lesnar has replaced Reigns, it's no longer necessary to beat Styles to get a new look. I'm not saying that Lesnar should just lose all his games now, but I a m saying that he does not to have to win them all either. Styles looked like a credible challenger last year, and several times in the game he seemed to be able to really shock the world with a win over Lesnar. If he beat Lesnar this year, Lesnar would still look as strong as when he was coming out of Crown Jewel.

Also last year, Styles had a historic reign as a WWE Champion. His current reign is the tenth longest reign of the WWE Championship of all time. In more than 361 days, Styles toppled Samoans, award-winning fighters and GOATS. Not only is he even more credible as a Lesnar challenger than it was last year, but he has more and more reasons to say that he could beat him up. .

I can definitely see WWE giving Styles a win over The Universal Champion, to consolidate his legacy as one of the best WWE champions of all time.

See Brock Lesnar again winning the Universal Championship might have given a lot of sour grapes and this does not really open the doors to a promising future for WWE programming, but that means we're getting Styles against Lesnar II – and Styles has a chance to overthrow the beast – that makes everything OK.