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Raw star says working with AJ Styles ‘pushed me to the next level’, details scrapped WWE plans

Posted: Jul 24th 2026 By: Roseanne Raphael

Dragon Lee reflected on his WWE Tag Team Title run with AJ Styles last year, calling the wrestling veteran instrumental to his career.

Lee expressed gratitude at the opportunity to work with Styles towards what was the ending of his wrestling career. He told Chris Van Vliet on the Insight Podcast that the partnership ‘pushed him to the next level’ in his wrestling career.

“He’s so nice. Being a champion with him is another thing that I want to say, he really pushed me to the next level. I’m very grateful to him, because I learned from him in general,” stated Lee. “As a man, the way he is as a father, and when we became champions, that moment when we grab the titles. He just grabbed me like this and crossed the title, wake up, yes, we won. I was like, what a moment.”
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“I feel honored to be part of his last matches, and even John Cena’s last match, I was part of that too. I feel like so many things that I’m proud of myself because if you’re not, if you don’t recognize yourself, who else will? You just look at the mural and say, ‘You’re doing well, keep working. I’m proud of you, brother. Keep working.’ My family, that’s it, that’s all the energy I need.”

Lee revealed he pitched for their tag team name to be ‘Phenomenal Dragons’ with ideation around the logo but the concept never came to fruition.

“Yeah, AJ Lee, right? Yeah, it was fun. We didn’t have enough time to create a name, but I pitched this name, and I think it would have been so great, the Phenomenal Dragons. I feel like that name would be so great, Phenomenal Dragons. AJ Styles has his logo, I said this logo becomes kind of like a dragon around it, something we can do. But I didn’t realize that he wouldn’t have enough time, he would be retired, nobody expected it.”

Lee and Styles paired up against Finn Balor and JD McDonagh from The Judgment Day and eventually won the World Tag Team Titles in October 2025. Despite a nearly two month reign, their alliance was memorable especially with Styles’ retirement not too long after.