Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles question wrestling's limp handshake

Terry Taylor's firm grip supplies Styles with a comeback to an old backstage custom.

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The worst advice Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles ever received

AJ Styles has a small objection to wrestling tradition: why should meeting a colleague require a deliberately limp handshake? In "The worst advice Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles ever received," the pair demonstrate the light backstage greeting before Styles explains why he abandoned it.

Terry Taylor gave him an ordinary, firm handshake in WCW. When Styles later encountered objections on the independent circuit, invoking Taylor's name was enough to end the discussion. Rhodes has his own cautionary tale, recalling an older wrestler's warning against proposing a storyline losing streak: the satisfying payoff you imagine may never arrive.

There were no new uploads on What Do You Wanna Talk About? With Cody Rhodes this week, but that October conversation is doing the most daily work among the channel's active videos. It has passed 413,000 views. Another Styles clip, "AJ Styles wrestled in Macho Man's last match," is close behind in daily viewing, giving the guest a substantial presence without a fresh appearance.

Brandi Rhodes' conversation with Alexa Bliss adds a different kind of road story: bringing her daughter to WWE events. That episode of A Shot of Brandi is also among the uploads drawing the most daily views.

The channel brought in roughly 208,000 views over the week, with subscribers unchanged and daily viewing running below half its usual pace. Nearby combat-sports channels have mixed fortunes: MMA Junkie's daily audience is well above its norm, while talkSPORT Boxing is quieter than usual. For Rhodes' channel, the week's distinctive attraction remains the backstage etiquette that Styles decided wasn't worth preserving.

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