AJ Styles Hypes Title Defense At Backlash, More Matches Set For WWE UK Tour

– WWE has already confirmed that WWE Champion AJ Styles will wrestle Shinsuke Nakamura under the sports entertainment banner for the third time thus far this year. Their first match went down at WrestleMania 34 with Styles winning and their second match at the Greatest Royal Rumble event that saw no winner being declared as both superstars were counted out.

Now, Styles is slated to put his title on the line against Nakamura at the upcoming Backlash pay-per-view event in Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center on Sunday. The WWE Champion sent out the following tweet to hype the upcoming match:

Down but never out.
Fight from wherever I stand.

My hand WILL be raised at #WWEBacklash and the #WWEChampionship will remain… #Phenomenal. @WWE #SDLive

— AJStyles.Org (@AJStylesOrg) May 1, 2018

– WWE’s annual tour of the UK is right around the corner, and more lineups for these events have been revealed, which you can see here:

Belfast, Northern Ireland (May 10th)
— Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe
— Baron Corbin vs. Braun Strowman
— Elias vs. Bobby Lashley
— Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler vs. Titus Worldwide with Dana Brooke
— No Way Jose, The Ascension, Breezango vs. The Revival, The Authors of Pain, Curt Hawkins
— Handicap Match: The Riott Squad vs. Ember Moon and Natalya
— Raw Tag Team Champions Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt vs. Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn
— Raw Women’s Champion Nia Jax vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Sasha Banks vs. Bayley
— WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Roode vs. Finn Balor vs. Jinder Mahal with Sunil Singh

Dublin, Ireland (May 11th)
— Roman Reigns, Bobby Lashley, Braun Strowman vs. Baron Corbin, Samoa Joe, Jinder Mahal with Sunil Singh
— Bobby Roode vs. Elias
— Finn Balor vs. Kevin Owens
— The Revival, The Authors of Pain, Curt Hawkins vs. The Ascension, No Way Jose, Titus Worldwide with Dana Brooke
— Sasha Banks, Bayley, Ember Moon, Dana Brooke vs. Natalya, Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan
— Raw Tag Team Champions Bray Wyatt & Matt Hardy vs. Breezango vs. Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler
— Raw Women’s Champion Nia Jax vs. Alexa Bliss
— WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins vs. Sami Zayn