Before debuting in WWE, AJ Styles first truly established himself as a professional wrestler in TNA, eventually becoming one in every of the most important names within the promotion. While he officially retired in WWE after a ten-year run, Jeff Jarrett believes Styles will all the time be synonymous with TNA.
“Do I consider AJ still a TNA guy? … I didn’t give it any conscious thought, but I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, [I] do,” Jarrett opined during an episode of his “My World with Jeff Jarrett” podcast. “It is unquestionably where he’s made his name; it’s where he [became] a performer.”
Jarrett then went off to list all of the accolades Styles picked up while he was still signed to TNA: “He’s the face of TNA from the very first night. He was on show one, the primary X-Division Champion,” he recalled. “I knew from, I’d almost say day one, that is the face of the corporate, that there is going to be loads of things in time.”
In accordance with Jarrett, he recently had a conversation with a stranger on the gym about pro wrestling, and he was stunned by the fan’s framing of Styles profession. “While you really take into consideration 2026 – the fashionable form of skilled wrestling – in so some ways, you sort of take into consideration, ‘Oh, take a look at the style now’ and in loads of the ways, it has its roots within the X-Division,” Jarrett explained. “So, in loads of ways, AJ – loads of guys grew up on him which might be now wrestling. He’s the face of the fashionable form of wrestling.”
Due to all this, Jarrett maintains that Styles continues to be a TNA guy. “Man, oh, man. What a profession. I do not think it’s over!”
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