AJ STYLES TALKS WWE & GFW INTEREST, CLAIRE LYNCH STORYLINE, MORE
- 12/15/2015 (12:04:43 pm)
- Bob Mulrenin
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Today the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling is simply phenomenal and is presented by OuterLimitsHotSauce.com (SAVE 10% ON YOUR PURCHASE USING THE CODE POWERTRIP). John and Chad are joined by arguably the greatest active wrestler in the business, AJ Styles. Firstly, we clear the air about the rumors of his injuries keeping him from competing at ROH's Final Battle and New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 10. But we don't stop there as we cover AJ's fantastic career highlights and talk about as the road to retirement is in AJ's view he is not close to being done yet.Full
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AJ Styles Comments On If Joining WWE & NXT Is A Priority
Has there been a pursued
interest by WWE to get you into NXT and join both Samoa Joe and James
Storm:
I haven't had a call from
someone who wants to hire me so nothing really and I'm okay with that and that's
not a big deal to me. I think it's more of the fans wanting something like this
to happen than what I am wanting to happen. I want to be able to retire in a
couple of years so I am going to go wherever that takes me. But I have no
problem doing the Independents, I love it. I have a great time on the Indies.
I've had a lot of great opportunities to wrestle a lot of great wrestlers. Also
doing Ring of Honor and Japan that's a good combination.
Before you retire do you even
want a full time spot in NXT since that seems to be the gateway to superstardom
in the WWE:
Like I said before, I want to
support my family and I am going to go wherever that takes me. Would I like to
have a "WrestleMania moment"? Sure. But I am very content with having a "Wrestle
Kingdom moment" in front of 60,000 fans. I think that is pretty awesome walking
down that long ramp of the Tokyo Dome in probably one of the bigger matches on
the show. There is probably a couple other people out there that want to
do the same thing.
On the botched and now
infamous Claire Lynch Saga in TNA:
You've got to understand that
it was going to be a great storyline and the little things that needed to be in
the story to make it work weren't. "Claire" had to be the niece of Dixie Carter,
that was very important. Because why would AJ care? I would never stick my neck
out for someone who was a family friend because what's that got to do with me?
Why would you just help them. Where if it was her (Dixie's) niece that the key
would be to keep her from bad publicity and I'll make sure that no one knows
about it. That was a big deal and also Claire had to be smoking hot. I mean
unbelievably hot, to the point where you go "wow, if AJ did have sex with her I
don't blame him". That's what we needed to have but it was quite the opposite.
So it was the little things that destroyed that momentum that we had and people
thought I may be with Dixie and it was a great thing and we had all that
momentum and "this Claire" comes out and screws it all up.
How he approached the Hogan/Bischoff ERA in TNA and
his reaction to Hulk Hogan's lack of enthusiasm to promote TNA on outside
media appearances:
First of all, I just tried to
stay positive. Pretty much anything Hulk Hogan touched at least at the beginning
turned to gold. But it didn't obviously because I don't think he knew the roster
that was in front of him and that was the problem. The names, the people who
were the "brand names" of TNA that they had no idea who they were. If they
didn't know who they were they just did whatever they wanted with it. They
wanted me to dye my hair blonde and be "Little Ric" and just because they didn't
know me. Instead of being Ric Flair I needed to be AJ Styles with Ric Flair.
Being with Ric I'll hopefully get the rub from Ric there is no doubt about that
and Fortune could have been great but they broke up Fortune a little bit too
early and we were really getting some steam and they broke us up and noting came
about it. It was things like that that got weird and Hogan seemed like he didn't
have much to do with TNA and seemed like he was embarrassed of the show because
he never said anything about TNA at all. Even when he was on shows he just never
mentioned it. I believe that he was ashamed of what was on TV. I believe if TNA
were doing a lot better he would have been a lot more gung-ho about saying a lot
more about it but he didn't say a word and it bothered me but thinking back I
understand it now.
Has Jeff Jarrett approached AJ about joining Global Force Wrestling and
his relationship with Jeff:
It's a good relationship. I think a lot of Jeff. He put me on top in
TNA, we've had our weird moments with Jeff being the boss but for the most part
it's very positive and I'll never forget what Jeff has done for me and gave me
an opportunity and gave me a stage to make AJ Styles a name. We had talked about
it (competing in GFW) when it was first getting started but with Ring of Honor
and New Japan I had no time for pretty much anything else. Just schedule wise it
never really came about that I could be on it.
AJ Styles full career is
chronicled in a FULL ONE HOUR interview with TMPToW. He covers all his feuds in
TNA, NJPW, ROH and so much more.
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