Best and worst of AJ Styles' WWE Championship reign
AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal in November 2017, and kicked off one of the most phenomenal championship reigns of all time as the WWE Champion.
He had several memorable feuds with Kevin Owens, Jinder Mahal, Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Samoa Joe before losing the title to Daniel Bryan just before Survivor Series 2018. Styles held the championship for 371 days, and defended it on almost every continent on the planet.
He defended his championship on every pay-per-view from WWE Clash of Champions in December 2017, to WWE Crown Jewel in November 2018 (except WWE Elimination Chamber because it was a RAW exclusive PPV).
Here's my analysis of The Phenomenal One's run with the B show's top title.
#1 Best - his match with Brock Lesnar at WWE Survivor Series 2017
Survivor Series 2017 was expected to fall flat, with the match between Brock Lesnar and Jinder Mahal potentially being the show's main event.
However, WWE quickly realised their mistake and crowned AJ Styles the WWE Champion on a UK special episode of SmackDown Live, which gave the WWE Universe a dream match between AJ and Brock at the inter-brand warfare.
While many fans predicted a squash match, the WWE Creative let AJ Styles push Brock Lesnar to his limits, and at one moment, each and every spectator thought The Beast would tap out to the Calf Crusher.
However, The Beast would recover and counter Styles' Phenomenal Forearm with an F5 to seal the deal. Surely, The Beast won the match, but this match established AJ as one of the top in-ring performers of all time.