AJ Styles may be retired, but the Styles name is back in the ring. The Phenomenal One’s son, Avery Styles, has made his professional wrestling debut.
Avery competed at the Royston Dome in Royston, Georgia, on Friday, June 26, as part of SCA Wrestling’s Freedom Fling event. He shared footage of the match to his Instagram Stories, including one clip in which he slides under the guardrail at ringside before connecting with a Phenomenal Forearm. Avery picked up the win over Ashton Martin, with AJ Styles advertised to be in his son’s corner.
The debut arrives just months after AJ Styles brought his own in-ring career to a close. The Phenomenal One retired following his loss to Gunther in a career-on-the-line match at the 2026 Royal Rumble. Around that time, Styles notably left the door open to one final appearance, citing one specific scenario.
“I mean, what if my son wrestles? The opportunity to tag with him once. You never know,” Styles said in a post-Rumble interview.
Signs that Avery was preparing to follow in his father’s footsteps had already begun to surface. In May, he posted a training video of himself executing the Spiral Tap, his father’s high-flying finisher, onto a crash pad, drawing plenty of attention from fans eager to see whether he could carry on the family legacy.
With Avery now officially in the ring and his father’s tease still lingering, the possibility of a one-time Styles family tag team has become a little more possible.
Avery Jones, the son of AJ Styles, made his professional wrestling debut at a Squared Circle Action event in Royston, GA! pic.twitter.com/Pft1tQJw9o
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) June 27, 2026
