WWE NXT star dishes on viral AJ Styles conversation at Royal Rumble

WWE NXT star Kelani Jordan talks to Fox News Digital about what AJ Styles told her after the women's Royal Rumble.

WWE NXT star Kelani Jordan entered the women’s Royal Rumble match as the 27th participant in the match, hoping to win the event and book a ticket to WrestleMania 42.

Jordan didn’t end up winning the match but made a huge impact. She went to the top rope and hit a Phoenix Splash. She was then able to showcase her gymnastic stylings in the ring when she took down Bayley, Liv Morgan, Jacy Jayne and Raquel Rodriguez.

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AJ Styles during the Royal Rumble The Dome at America's Center on Jan. 29, 2022. (Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports)

WWE cameras caught Jordan talking with AJ Styles backstage. The video showed Styles whispering something into Jordan’s ear. Jordan later praised Styles as her mentor.

"AJ Styles is awesome, I mean, phenomenal. But he was someone when I was literally, maybe like two or three months in at the Performance Center, and I was training and I remembered he happened to be there," she told Fox News Digital. "He was actually in the ring and worked with me and trained with me. I was so new and remember him telling me early on – only like two or three months in – he was like, you have something special, keep going, believe in yourself, and just keep pushing yourself. He’s like, you have something special and that was very early on, so him being able to see me when I was only two to three months in and now being in my first-ever Rumble, it was like just a crazy moment.

Kelani Jordan enters the ring during NXT at the WWE Performance Center on Jan. 13, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. (Conor Kvatek/WWE via Getty Images)

"After the Rumble, he just mentioned