AJ Styles in 5 years

[Montana]

WHere do you think AJ Styles will be in 5 years. How will his legacy grow? Do you think he could move to the WWE?

Right now, i'd say AJ is arguably best wrestler in TNA and even the WWE, and he's his prime is just starting. He's no longer just a great wrestler. He's got a personality, he's got a character. TNA only the years has been able to show different sides of AJ's character to the point now where you believe in AJ the person/character.

So where do i think he will be in 5 years. I think he will remain in the upper tier of TNA over the years until the death of tna. I wouldn't be too shocked if he jumped to the WWE. I see a lot of gold in his future as well. In 5 years he will be ranked around the top 25 wrestlers in the last 30 years.

Thoughts.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

Tiring of the never ending shit parade of TNA, he jumps ship to...get ready for it...ROH! Knowing that he could never achieve success in the majors since he can't talk and the only thing that makes him viable, his in ring work, will be dumbed down, he decides to join cohort Daniels in this now surging indy. With some marketable faces, RoH is able to land a timeslot on a larger network and able to keep their spot on mondays. Fans are treated to 3 shows on one night for the first time ever. The E continues it's never ending supremacy over it's "competition", but RoH, ran by realists, knows they aren't competing with WWE, they are competing with the over glorified indy running out of an amusement park. TNA tries mightily to continue suffering from the severe ass whooping that the E brutalizes them with. RoH slowly builds around fresh feuds like AJ vs. Claudio and Daniels starts a faction with the Briscoes to war with Colt Cabanna and Steenerico and before you know it, RoH has ratings in the .7s and .8s while TNA is dealing with it's .5s, achieving Dallas Maverick like success with all the money being spent.

 

[phantomgerald]

He's already 30, so if he's going to leave, it should be soon. He's the face of the franchise not named Hogan so he can really hold TNA hostage by demanding money and the title and if TNA refuse, he can leave and be the only guy who can show up on Smackdown the next night and get an instant push. I have no doubt the WWE would love that.

 

[Doomsday]

How AJ is on air right now is, is how he is in real life.
A prick!!!

 

[CMS]

Personally, I don't see WWE caring that much about stealing AJ Styles from TNA.

 

[xtremebadass]

Personally, I don't see WWE caring that much about stealing AJ Styles from TNA.

I don't see why WWE should care for AJ Styles. What? "The Great Wrestler" excuse? We see what "The Great Wrestler" excuse did for Daniel Bryan.

I doubt WWE would want him for his charisma, because he doesn't have any.

Plus, on top of it all he was made solely in TNA. WWE doesn't think much of TNA since they said Christian was never a World Champion, eventhough he won the NWA World title the same belt that guys like Ric Flair won. Go figure.

 

[JurassicBonez]

If TNA manages to not fall under in that time, AJ will play the Jericho role. Helping talent get over in the mid card, while still keeping his credibilty. The only way I see that he's not wrestling anymore is if he gets injured really badly. But I still see him going strong in 5 years.

 

[chessarmy]

He shouldn't have lost the Title to Rob Van Dam with 2 hours of build, and he definitely shouldn't be a heel with a Ric Flair esque gimmick when everyone knows he's married. Thats the present though, in the next 5 years? I see him sticking with TNA and maybe getting a few more World Title runs. WWE probably doesn't care for him and I'm pretty sure they never will.

 

[adhyanta]

No matter how great the talent A.J. posesses, he lacks the level of charisma needed, to make the WWE interested into offering him a spot as the brand's top performer. Unless Vince'd eventually buy TNA and they'd do the a similar storyline as Invasion with TNA stars.

In 5 years I hope he's gonna be working in the WWE. He may seem to look phenomenal in TNA, but what can we compare his talent with? No doubt he is amazing, but is he THAT amazing? Perhaps, but a wrestler's worth is best measured by playing in the big league.

I see his most likely role in WWE is with doing a tag team, preferrably with Rey Mysterio on Smackdown -- obviously because it's a guaranteed to be awesome -- just imagine how people can't wait for the team to break up, so then they'd form the kind of rivalry, easily belonged amongst the classics.

After that, maybe a short feud against slow giants like Big Show, or Khali, or Kane, that old tale of speed versus strength, just seemed the logical if not mandatory step for any wrestler with his type of move-set. But if we're really lucky we might see A.J. contribute a loss, as part of The Undertaker's ever growing legendary undefeated streak at Wrestlemania, before his eventual shot at whatever world title is in Smackdown at the time.

I'd love to see A.J. Styles trying to win a WWE world title belt from the likes of Jericho or C.M. Punk, but my favourite pick would certainly be Edge. Styles, a phenomenal one in a million, versus the champion Edge, an unexplainably hard bastard to kill.

A.J. Styles has reached the highest peak attainable in TNA. He's near to finding the limit of what TNA can give for his career, and vice versa. In 5 years, wherever he might end up, TNA or WWE.. is probably where he's going to spend the rest of his career. He can either be a stagnant and stay phenomenal, or he can be HBK.

 

[CMS]

AJ Styles will never reach "HBK" or "Y2J" level unless he goes to work to WWE and achieves anything in there. What TNA calls classic are quite frankly irrelevant in the big landscape of wrestling history. Just like WCW's ones. Jeff Jarret vs Booker T was sold as a major feud in WCW back in the day....totally irrelevant nowadays. Should AJ stay in there, all his feuds will suffer the same fate

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

I don't see why WWE should care for AJ Styles. What? "The Great Wrestler" excuse? We see what "The Great Wrestler" excuse did for Daniel Bryan.

I doubt WWE would want him for his charisma, because he doesn't have any.

Plus, on top of it all he was made solely in TNA. WWE doesn't think much of TNA since they said Christian was never a World Champion, eventhough he won the NWA World title the same belt that guys like Ric Flair won. Go figure.

By no means was that the same belt. In looks and name yes, in prestige and meaningfulness, absolutely not. The belt that Flair, Funk, Thesz, Briscoe, Race and so on held was the absolute top belt, ever. The NWA was the only true worldwide force the sport has ever known, The NWA that TNA was pimping was nothing more than a bunch of chump indy (mind you there is a GIANT difference between territory owners and Indy promoters) promoters who owned the name and weren't making any money off the name so they sold the rights to TNA. That belt is absolutely worthless. The lineage of the original NWA title was unified into the WCW belt, which is technically unified into the WWE title. So Christian was holding a belt that was only worth the metal it was made of.

 

[Montana]

I'm very surprised that many of you feel the WWE wouldn't have much interest in AJ Styles. I understand he's not the poster child of what a WWE superstar should be, but the WWE needs to take notice on these TNA stars. Styles, Roode, MCMG, are going to be a big part of wrestling in the next 5 years imo. We shall see though. Personally i think the WWE would be foolish not to go after these guys.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

^^^ Of the guys you named the only one that has charisma is Roode. The Machine Guns are the epitome of spot monkey, their future isn't as bright as you suspect it and AJ is just a nice wrestler whose charisma doesn't extend beyond his nice moves. To really make an impact, especially in the last thirty years of the business, talking and having charisma are the most essential elements. You can be a great "wrestler", but not everyone is a Benoit where they bust their hump to the top of the biz, it just doesn't work that way. But then again, Benoit's intensity was a form of charisma and is something neither of the Guns nor AJ have.

If I had to pick who has the "it" in TNA right now to be a permanent fixture in wrestling's future, I'd say Desmond Wolfe, Pope and Samoa Joe, who does have the intensity that doubles as charisma.

 

[Kizza]

I don't see why WWE should care for AJ Styles. What? "The Great Wrestler" excuse? We see what "The Great Wrestler" excuse did for Daniel Bryan.

I doubt WWE would want him for his charisma, because he doesn't have any.

Plus, on top of it all he was made solely in TNA. WWE doesn't think much of TNA since they said Christian was never a World Champion, eventhough he won the NWA World title the same belt that guys like Ric Flair won. Go figure.

Or maybe it's because AJ isn't good enough in reality to be in the top company.

 

[straight_edge76]

With the exception of the dream matches that many of you mentioned, I don't see AJ making that huge of an impact (no pun intended) in the WWE, mainly for the reasons already stated. However, I have heard that allegedly the WWE has attempted to make a move for Styles but I don't know if it is/isn't true.