Styles (renamed Air Styles) and Paris were placed in a tag team, which was named Air Raid. World Championship Wrestling (2001) Ītlanta-based World Championship Wrestling (WCW) had observed Styles' and Air Paris' program in NWA Wildside and offered each a contract in early 2001. He appeared sporadically even after signing with NWA-TNA, and is a former NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion, having defeated Rick Michaels for the title on December 22, 2001, at Christmas Chaos. In December 1999, NCW merged with NWA Georgia to form NWA Wildside, and Jones was renamed A.J.
įrom 1999 to 2001, he generally competed in less notable independent promotions. By August 1999, he had won the promotion's Television Championship. Olympia, a masked wrestler, losing to Michael Brooks in his first singles match. In the Georgia-based National Championship Wrestling (NCW) promotion he wrestled as Mr. Jones was trained by Rick Michaels and debuted in 1998.
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Professional wrestling career Early career (1998–2001) To supplement his income, he worked by mowing lawns and driving an ambulance. He entered a professional wrestling school because his friends were doing it and to find out whether he had a natural aptitude for it. He was then invited by some of his friends to try professional wrestling. Jones then attended Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina, where he was on a wrestling and physical education scholarship. Jones took up amateur wrestling in high school and became a two-time state wrestling champion. He attended Johnson High School in Gainesville, Georgia, graduating in the class of 1996. The family's poverty was such that they could not afford cable television, which resulted in Jones being unable to watch professional wrestling, his childhood passion. He grew up in poverty with an abusive, alcoholic father. Jones also won 10 Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards, including Wrestler of the Year in 20, and was inducted in their Hall of Fame in 2017.Īllen Neal Jones was born at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on June 2, 1977.
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He ranked atop the annual Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500 in 2010, the first TNA wrestler to do so, was voted PWI Wrestler of the Year three times between 20, and Wrestler of the Decade in 2020. He has headlined numerous pay-per-view events, including the respective premier events of WWE and TNA, WrestleMania and Bound for Glory. Jones has been thought of as a pillar of the wrestling industry for over two decades, being respected by fans and co-workers, and is considered one of the world's greatest professional wrestlers. Jones has also wrestled extensively internationally, in promotions such as New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a two-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the United Kingdom based Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro), where he is a former RPW British Heavyweight Champion. He also won the United States Championship three times, the Intercontinental Championship and the Raw Tag Team Championship once each, thus becoming the second wrestler (after Kurt Angle) to become a TNA/Impact and WWE Triple Crown winner and first Grand Slam champion in both promotions. At 371 days, this is the eighth-longest reign in title history. With his second victory in Manchester, England, Jones is recognized by WWE as the first wrestler to win the title outside North America. He returned to the company in 2016, and won the WWE Championship twice. Jones first appeared in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 2002, but declined a developmental contract. Jones simultaneously appeared in Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2002 to 2006, where he became the inaugural ROH Pure Champion.
He is also the first TNA Triple Crown and Grand Slam champion. He gained prominence after signing with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact Wrestling), having been described as "the cornerstone of the company since inception" he won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice, the NWA World Heavyweight Championship three times, and was the inaugural titleholder of the X Division Championship, which he won six times. Jones debuted in 1998 and competed for various independent promotions before gaining initial mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2001. stable he is currently inactive due to injury. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand and is the leader of The O.C. Styles), is an American professional wrestler. Allen Neal Jones (born June 2, 1977), better known by his ring name AJ Styles (also stylized as A.J.
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