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AJ Styles isn’t retiring next Spring, there isn’t a new WWE United States title

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, kids!

Exhibit A: AJ Styles is not retiring after WrestleMania 34

This one is pretty straight-forward. While the 40 year old WWE champ has understandably talked about how the clock is ticking on his in-ring career, rumors started by this tweet...

Were shut down with one-word from The Phenomenal One...

Exhibit B: WWE did not unveil a new United States title design in a house show ad

This since deleted tweet from the venue for a January SmackDown live event in South Carolina caused quite a stir among belt fans...

Unfortunately, that fan-created design has been floating around for at least a couple years, and this seems to be a case of an overzealous, non-graps fan in the Florence Civic Center sales office making a quick ad to run over Thanksgiving weekend before WWE sent them an image, Photoshopped together with whatever Google search results looked coolest...

Beware #FakeWrestlingNews

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