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AJ Styles profile written by Dusty Davis
"Truly Phenomenal"
Phenomenal is defined as being remarkable or
impressively good or great. In professional
wrestling there have been a lot of great
wrestlers but AJ Styles lives up to his name of
The Phenomenal One.
Allen Lloyd Jones made his wrestling debut on
February 15, 1999 in Georgia's National
Championship Wrestling, known as Mr. Olympia.
Even though he lost his first match, he went on
to win both the NCW Television and NCW Light
heavyweight Championships with in eight months.
In December of 1999 NCW merged with NWA Georgia
to form the NWA Wildside promotion. Mr. Olympia
was then renamed AJ Styles.
At the beginning of the next year Styles won the
TV Title for the second time by defeating
K-Krush. He held onto the belt for almost four
months before losing it to Eddie Golden on April
1, 2000. Styles won the title a third and final
time on January 6, 2001, taking it from Air
Paris. His last Television Title reign was short
lived, when he lost the strap a month later to
Robbie Rage.
Syles signed a contract for World Championship
Wrestling in the beginning of 2001. On March 5
he was partnered with his rival from NWA
Wildside, Air Paris. They teamed together as Air
Raid and were in the tournament for the newly
created WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team
Championships. Air Raid was eliminated in the
first round by the eventual winners, Elix
Skipper and Kid Romeo.
After the World Wrestling Federation bought WCW
in March, AJ was left without a job. He went
back to Wildside where he defeated his trainer
and mentor Rick Michaels on December 22, 2001 at
the Christman Chaos show for the NWA Wildside
Heavyweight Championship. He dropped the title
to David Young in a three way match that also
involved Michaels, on March 23, 2002 at Hardcore
Hell.
AJ Styles also did a few shows with the WWF on
the show Jakked and was offered a developmental
contract with Heartland Wrestling Association.
Styles declined the offer because he would have
had to relocate to Cincinnati, Ohio which would
have interrupted with his wife's college plans.
He also claimed that he could make more money
wrestling on the independent circuit than what
the WWF developmental contract offered.
Styles then went to Australia where he toured
with the now closed World Wrestling All-Stars
promotion. He made his Pay Per View debut with
the company on April 13, 2002 at WWA: The
Eruption in Melbourne. AJ beat Jerry Lynn in the
finals of a four man tournament winning the WWA
International Cruiserweight Championship. He
vacated the belt in 2003.
AJ Styles defeated Jerry Lynn, Low-Ki, and
Psicosis in a double elimination match on June
26, 2002 to become the first ever TNA X Division
Champion. He would go on to hold the belt a
total of six times since then.
The Phenomenal One was voted Mr. TNA by the fans
in an online poll for 2003, 2004, and 2005. He
is also a Triple Crown Winner in TNA, by holding
all three titles with the company.
If you have never got to see AJ Styles wrestle
then you have missed something that is truly
Phenomenal.
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