#3 Facilitates a Styles face turn
As we said before, AJ Styles is a great in-ring worker but his heel persona just hasn't worked. Arenas still chant and sing his name every single week; he simply has not gotten over as a heel. Instead, he’s the most over babyface on the roster. We need that definitive face turn to help Styles become an even bigger star.
A legit heel with actual heat versus a beloved face always creates the most interesting dynamics for TV. Corbin physically dominating Styles in a series of matches would create a sense of vulnerability for the Champ, thus attracting sympathy from the casual viewer.
With Ambrose struggling to get over, Ellsworth being a non-entity and Cena becoming a Hollywood star, SmackDown needs main event babyfaces that the crowd genuinely like, not heels they like instead. Corbin ploughing into the WWE title picture sets in motion this process for AJ Styles.
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