Wrestler: “Phenomenal” A.J. Styles
Real Name: Allen Jones
Birthday: June 2, 1978
Hometown: Gainesville, Georgia
Height & Weight: 5’10″ – 202 lbs
Trained by: NCW Training School and Rick Michaels
Debut: March 1999
| Finisher: The Styles Clash Finisher: Super Styles Clash Finisher: The Spiral Tap Shooting Styles Press Running Snap Swinging Neckbreaker Flying Squirrel Spinning Crescent Kick Enziguri Springboard Crossbody Stalling Brainbuster German Face Bust |
Starmaker (Side Backdrop Driver) Sickle Hold Quebrada into Inverted DDT Running Corner Backflip Dropkick Styles Suplex Special Kip Up Hurricanrana Spinning Clothesline Spine Breaker Thrust Kick Cliffhanger(Crucifix into DDT) No Hands Sommersault Plancha |
Superman(Springboard 450) Crash and Burn(with Air Paris) Backbreaker into Gutbuster Rebound Dropkick Suplex Lift to Neckbreaker Phenomenon Running Sommersault Senton Low Roundhouse Kick Pele Kick Quebrada into Inverted DDT Stylin’ Crab Air Raid Crash |
AJ Styles Title History:
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.
written by Dusty Davis
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