AJ Styles

Crocker

The thing is God that AJ doesnt(unlike Jeff Hardy) have to do the high risks to get a top quality match, and I dont thinks he has to turn babyface, just cut out the crap dressing up and shit like that.

Low Ki

To you're first point it's been a really long time since AJ was a face, over a year at least, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say there. To your second point I'm not sure that AJ being a referee counts as being in the main event. I mean after all Samoa Joe is the Special Enforcer for Angle vs. Cage at Against All Odds, but I really wouldn't cosider that being that he is in the main event either.

Griff0rd

TNA Moderator

Here's the thing, he can be like he is outside of the ring and yet, he is still respected for what he can do in the ring. If you ask anyone who follows TNA who the best in ring worker is, 5 of 10 would have said AJ Styles then and the same 5 of 10 would say the same now. He can have this gimmick and still be respected in the ring. Remember, wrestling is here to entertain and he is doing just that to a MUCH larger group of people, while still showing top notch abilities in ring. The vast majority of people don't watch it for just the wrestling, so not having a gimmick like this only hurts him.

Tyler Durden

Who is this MUCH larger group of people?

Styles was the most popular member of the roster, as evidenced by his continual winning of TNA Man of the Year or whatever it's called, when he was a vanilla babyface.

I don't see him being popular to a much larger group of people now. Neither in number, nor body mass!!

Personally, I will always find him hugely entertaining in the ring.

I do not want to see him dressing as a reindeer or whatever the hell the other costume was (in a ladder match one of them where he bumped and risked his body insanely over a completely shitty free tv match!). I do not want to see him crying like a baby behind his Mom's bedroom door whilst we're told that he used to urinate himself. I do not want to see him wearing a small crown. I do not want to see him banging one out in the toilets because Karen Angle has tried seducing him. I do not want TNA telling me every single week "this guy is a complete dork, geek and a failure in life". That does not make me want to then watch him as much as I should given his huge ability. To me, he is playing just yet another mid card comedy act in a group full of them.