A Phenomenal Hire: AJ Styles Joins WWE Two Years Early

In December 2013, AJ Styles left TNA after twelve years as an active wrestler. Now, if Vince and Triple H had truly been on the ball, they would have signed him up there and then. However, as we all know, the WWE didn't even make him an offer and he went to New Japan Pro Wrestling in April 2014. In hindsight, it's easy to say they should have at least made him an offer, but seeing as he's had a great career in the WWE IOTL so far, it's also fair to say that it didn't really matter.

But what if it did?

Two years is an eternity in professional wrestling. Two years into AJ Styles' tenure in the WWE IOTL, he'd won the WWE Championship twice and the United States Championship twice, and he was incredibly over for all of that time. At the start of that period, Daniel Bryan had just retired - two years and three months later, he unretired, became an active wrestler again, and eventually ended AJ's second WWE title reign. Anything can go differently in those two years.

So let's imagine for a second that someone like, say, Christian sees the news that AJ's left TNA and goes straight to Vince. He says to Vince, hey, you should probably look into signing this AJ Styles guy, because he's phenomenal and you wouldn't have to train him or anything. Vince, being the senile old coot that he is, would probably be kind of sceptical, but eventually Christian would convince him to sign AJ Styles on the proviso that he showed AJ how the WWE style works in the run up to Mania. Yeah, I don't care if you remove me from Elimination Chamber, but you should probably add him too, because he's so fucking phenomenal and he'd be perfect there. Vince shrugs, says 'fuck it', and gets Hunter to make the call. AJ accepts, and he debuts in the Rumble two years early.

This TL will be structured like Megafighter3's collection of wrestling TLs. There won't be any grand narrative to this, but I'll report on PPV results ITTL if and when they change. It'll run from 2014 to whenever I burn out from this because of uni and other shit in my life, but I'll try and keep this going until Wrestlemania 32. Updates will be inconsistent, but I'll try not to make the gaps between updates too big. I'll mostly skip Raw and Smackdown, because realistically they'll suck just as hard ITTL as they did IOTL, but if there are any significant changes, I'll mention them in the post. Otherwise, each post'll cover one PPV at a time, with a brief summary of how each match has changed, if at all. With the exception of a couple of necessary changes, I'll hopefully try and book things as Vince would have ITTL, so that'll unfortunately mean that a fair few stupid booking decisions and angles are staying in. Butterflies must flap though, so things can't stay exactly as they were IOTL. (Such is the nature of alternate history.)

But what about New Japan? If Devitt goes (and he's definitely going) then he's going to need a replacement as Bullet Club leader. But who could that be? Well, I'll cover that soon enough, but I'll just say that it probably isn't who you're expecting, and he probably isn't going to the WWE ITTL.

So with that all out of the way, let's flash forward to the 2014 Royal Rumble match, where Damien Sandow and Jimmy Uso have just found out they're not actually going to be in the match after all...
 
I: The 2014 Royal Rumble Match
Royal Rumble 2014

Venue: Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Attendance: 18,000
Announce Team: Michael Cole/Jerry Lawler/JBL​

The 2014 Royal Rumble Match

#1: CM Punk
#2: Seth Rollins

We begin exactly as we began IOTL. CM Punk, who apparently had a screaming match with Vince earlier that day because Bryan wasn't in the match and because he should've been in the Mania XXIX main event, comes out first against the first Shield member of the night: Seth 'The Bootlicker' Rollins. Couldn't be any more unlike each other if they tried. They both go at it for two minutes as OTL, and as the timer counts down, both Punk and Rollins lay sprawled on the mat. That organ pipes up, those 'yeps' ring out, and crucially, we get a great view of the Titantron as 'I AM...' is followed by 'PHENOMENAL'. [1]

IOTL, Meltzer gave this match ***¼. ITTL, it's ***¾, and allegedly one ¼* was for this moment.

#3: AJ Styles

The pop is fucking deafening. Pittsburgh briefly forgets about how Daniel Bryan was buried two matches ago and cheers for one of the greatest professional wrestlers to never step in a WWE ring until now. Just as it was in 2016 IOTL, this is the moment ITTL where Vince McMahon realises he might have such good shit on his hands. AJ goes to work on Punk and Rollins, and it's safe to say he'll last a hell of a lot longer than Sandow would have. The timer counts down, and it's:

#4: Cody Rhodes

Nope, still no eliminations yet. The four of them have one hell of a fight, and Punk nearly eliminates AJ like he took out Sandow IOTL. However, AJ hangs on by the skin of his teeth, and Punk doesn't check where AJ is, so he eats a Phenomenal Forearm. He can't capitalise, however, as Cody pulls him back and tries for a Cross Rhodes, to no avail. It's all rather harmonious, but that harmony's about to be spoiled by:

#5: Kane

Welp. Corporate Kane decks Cody, and he goes to work on Punk as Rollins and AJ fight it out. Punk tosses Kane out after an enzuigiri (30, Kane), and amazingly enough, harmony is restored.

For about ten seconds.

#6: Alexander Rusev

Rusev enters as IOTL and smashes Rollins in the chest. He makes an impression for sure, brutalising everyone in the ring at the time. AJ has a better time of it, fighting off the Bulgarian Brute for half a minute, but he eventually misses a backfist, allowing Rusev to send him to the mat with a Machka Kick. At this point, Rollins jumps Rusev, and the clock ticks down again to reveal:

#7: Jack Swagger

We The People sucks and it's dead and buried. It was a stupid idea from bad creative, but right now the crowd's...pretty into it tbh. Anyway, everyone gets Swagger Bombs, culminating in Rusev and Swagger fighting it out until Rollins sweeps Rusev into the corner and everyone gangs up on him. Swagger breaks away and tries to take out Cody, Punk comes back to take on Rollins, and AJ comes right back swinging at Rusev as in comes:

#8: Kofi Kingston

So AJ's presence isn't really changing things up much so far, that's true. Tbh, I don't really feel the need to change it that much so far – things were fine IOTL, and I doubt they'd book things too differently ITTL. That being said, Kofi tries to eliminate Punk as IOTL, but he hangs on; Cody tries, and again he hangs on; Swagger nearly takes out Rollins, but lmao nope; AJ comes for Swagger, and- oh, wait a second, Seth's helping him up...and over. (29, Swagger) Good riddance. The timer ticks down, and we get the second surprise pop of the match:

#9: Christian

Oh yes. This is Christian's first appearance since The Shield beat the shit out of him on Raw last September, and his peeps fucking love it. Christian immediately goes for Rollins, spearing the shit out of him before hitting him with a Killswitch. Then he sees AJ. AJ sees Christian. AJ has a history with Christian, and this crowd knows it all too well. A 'Yes' chant fills the air. (This is probably where the other ¼* comes from.) Seth lifts himself up on the ropes, and both AJ and Christian look over at him. They nod at each other. AJ and Christian fucking pounce on Rollins, beating the crap out of him and almost getting him over the top rope...until that buzzer buzzes.

#10: Dean Ambrose [2]

Ambrose comes out and saves his brother from destruction. Fuck. Meanwhile, Kofi, Cody and Punk try working together to take out Rusev, and so far...things ain't going to plan, I'll tell you that. However, AJ briefly abandons Christian to the wolves and lends a hand to the three small folks at the ropes, and eventually...yep, he's up and over. (28, Rusev) AJ looks back and sees Christian nearly meeting the same fate, but he rushes over and takes down Ambrose with a snap German. Kofi falls, but Rusev catches him, and he gets back to the ring just in time for:

#11: Goldust

Goldust comes in and cleans up the ring nicely. AJ and Christian struggle with Kofi, but it doesn't amount to anything until:

#12: Dolph Ziggler

Yep. It's Dolph, I guess. Missile dropkick on Ambrose, then AJ tries to give Ambrose a Styles Clash, but it's broken up by Rollins. Eventually:

#13: R-Truth

Nope. Dean takes care of him. (27, Truth) Kofi nearly gets eliminated, but again he hangs on by the skin of his teeth and takes Ziggler's boot instead.

#14: Kevin Nash

Yes, he's cursed with Being Arrested ITTL too. The #14 curse is eternal, folks. Nash takes down Dolph (26, Ziggler) and he nearly takes out the two Shield members, until:

#15: Roman Reigns

OH SHIT, HERE WE FUCKING GO. Roman immediately takes out Kingston (25, Kofi), then he saves his brothers from Kevin Nash, who he fucking destroys, (24, Nash) and then they see Christian. Oh God. That buzzer saves him.

#16: The Great Khali

Lmao, the Shield sees him and noooooooooope. (23, Khali) So Christian saves AJ from Punk, and they try to get him over the top. While this is going on, Goldust eliminates his brother. (22, Cody) Goldust then separates AJ from Christian, and Punk finds his feet, kicks Christian in the gut, and scuttles out the ring. And the Shield are back. Triple powerbomb sends Christian out the ring (21, Christian) and what the fuck:

#17: Sheamus

Fellas, you fucked up. Brogue Kick to Roman's jaw, power out of Dean's bulldog and reverse into White Noise, and oh fuck Seth just caught me with a falling DDT. Seth tries to hit Sheamus with a curb stomp, but HOLY SHIT IT'S PUNK!!! Punk takes out Seth with a GTS, and he tries to get him out of the ring, but Sheamus comes right back up and stiffs Punk with a clothesline!

#18: The Miz

Oh, and The Miz comes out and sticks himself into an unoccupied corner. Anyway, fucking hell AJ's back! He attacks Ambrose with a Phenomenal Forearm out of nowhere, and he ducks a lariat from Rollins and takes him down with a Phenomenal Blitz! [3] While this is going on, Roman takes out the other Rhodes brother (20, Goldust) and oh. shit. Roman sees AJ on his own. He dodges a Superman Punch, and AJ strikes back with a sharp elbow to the back!

#19: Fandango

Oh wait. Hold the fucking phone. It's Fandango.

You know what? I'm going to selectively edit Megafighter3's entry for this one.

Fandango dances his way to the ring, and as soon as he gets in, he gets dropped with a Skull Crushing Finale.

The fight stops and everyone looks as the fallen Fandango rises... only to catch a Spear from Reigns. Who then tosses him to Sheamus for a Brogue Kick. Fandango then gets Curbstomped by Rollins and then staggers into a Styles Clash. As he begins to come back to, he's hit with a Dirty Deeds from Ambrose and then tossed to Punk for the GTS. Roman then grabs him and sends him out (19, Fandango)

It's these moments that always make me happy when I book Royal Rumbles.

Everyone goes back to fighting, Miz settles into his corner and here comes the 20th man.

#20: El Torito

Nope. This is still Vince-world, so we don't get Bray: we get El Fucking Torito. Luckily, since Roman is already level with his OTL eliminations, he doesn't have to take this one. AJ does though. He goes hard, all day and night, and he eventually kills the wee bull with an Ushigoroshi that sends him flying off his knee, over the top rope. (18, Torito) And then Roman targets AJ.

#21: Antonio Cesaro

Yeah, whatever. AJ turns into a Superman Punch, and he flies into the ropes. Roman takes a run up, and a leaping clothesline sends AJ Styles over the top rope into oblivion.

(17, Styles)

The rest, unfortunately, is as OTL.

And that is the story of how AJ Styles got his start in the WWE. Sacrificed to the Roman Empire for sympathy against some shitlord Hollywood superstar.

It would be a tragic tale, except it's really not a tragedy.

[1] I don't feel it's a stretch to assume that CFO$ still produces 'Phenomenal' as OTL.

[2] Switching around Ambrose and Goldust for dramatic effect. Doesn't make any difference in the grand scheme of things, but in the short term it directly allows Dean to save Seth.

[3] Mauro Ranallo used this name for this sequence a couple of times on Smackdown IOTL. Despite the name of the video I just linked, the name never really caught on with any other commentators, but I still love it tbh. Probably won't be known as this ITTL, but I'll keep referring to the Phenomenal Blitz as though it were.
 
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II: Elimination Chamber 2014
Elimination Chamber 2014

Venue: Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Attendance: 15,000
Announce Team: Michael Cole/Jerry Lawler/JBL​

Welcome to the first post-AJ PPV of this TL. Unfortunately, things aren't too different here. There is, however, one big difference here, and hopefully it's for the better.

Raw/SD differences

-AJ booked against Christian in their first match as WWE competitors
-AJ wins on 27/01, shakes hands with Christian before and after
-AJ wins an Elimination Chamber qualifier on 03/02 against Sheamus
-Batista/Sheamus is booked for EC
-Del Rio does nothing important ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-AJ/Christian vs. Cesaro/Swagger on 10/02, which AJ wins by pinning Swagger after a Styles Clash
-11/02 becomes Shield vs. AJ/Bryan/Christian, and Christian takes the pin
-18/02 becomes AJ/Christian, and AJ wins by DQ after a surreptitious low blow

And now, the differences with the night itself.

Batista d. Sheamus

We get a short, but sweet hoss sprint here. Basically, it's the match they had on Smackdown on 15/04 IOTL, but it's on the PPV instead. Batista wins with the Batista Bomb. It's no Shibata/Ishii, but it works, and it sells Batista as a heel much more effectively than Batista/ADR did IOTL.

Randy Orton (c) d. Daniel Bryan, John Cena, Cesaro (w/ Zeb Colter), Christian, and AJ Styles in an Elimination Chamber Match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship

Pretty much as OTL, except again, AJ's taking Sheamus' role. For posterity, let's have a wee wikibox:

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Now, the major difference between TTL and OTL is that since Christian is working with AJ and not Sheamus, and AJ doesn't work stiff, he doesn't get a concussion in the 4-way #1 Contender's match on Raw for the Intercontinental Title.

When Christian said he was going to work with AJ up to Wrestlemania, he meant it ITTL. However, he didn't know that he'd be entering Mania with gold around his waist.
 
III: Wrestlemania XXX
Wrestlemania XXX

Venue: Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Attendance: 75,167
Announce Team: Michael Cole/Jerry Lawler/JBL​

Daniel Bryan has a shot at winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship tonight! Of course, we don't really give a shit about that, because this is AJ's time.

Major Raw/SD differences

-Christian beats AJ dirty on 24/02; AJ wins on 03/03; Christian wins again on 10/03 in a No DQ match
-Christian/ADR/Ziggler/AJ on 24/03 ends with Christian pinning Del Rio
-Christian beats Big E for the IC title on 25/03
-AJ challenges Christian to one more Street Fight for the IC at Wrestlemania on 02/04

Bray Wyatt d. John Cena

This is the one major change ITTL that isn't caused by butterflies. If there were any moments that derailed the Wyatt Family's momentum, it was absolutely Super Cena going over Bray at Wrestlemania for no particular reason. Hell, if you want to say that this was affected by the butterfly effect, then let's assume that AJ encourages Bray to speak to Vince and demand he goes over, because otherwise the fans'll turn on the Wyatt Family, and we really don't want that. Either way, Cena puts up a wonderful fight, but Bray is just too powerful here, and he! retains! his! mystique! He is a legitimate challenge for Bryan now! Let him be a challenger! Anyway, Wyatt wins with a Sister Abigail, and welp, Super Cena ain't so super anymore!

AJ Styles d. Christian (c) for the Intercontinental Championship in a Street Fight

Now this is the really big one. If time is a concern, cut five minutes off Wyatt/Cena and five minutes off Lesnar/Taker, because this is gonna be hot. AJ and Christian brawl all over the Superdome, and holy shit it's a hot one. The ending comes when AJ reverses a Killswitch attempt into an Ushigoroshi and goes for a Phenomenal Forearm, only to fly into a spear...for a two count. Nah, we're not doing the Roman/AJ Extreme Rules ending here. Christian thinks, fuck it, I beat him with this once, I'll do it again, so he painfully makes his way over to the top turnbuckle and tries for a frog splash, only for AJ to lift his knees up at the last second! Fuck! AJ lifts himself off the ground, sticks Christian's head between his legs, lifts him up, Styles Clash, one, two, three, AJ Styles just won his first title at Wrestlemania! Holy shit!

The rest, thankfully, is as OTL.

Now, at this point, you might be wondering: if AJ's so successful here, then who the hell's leading Bullet Club now? Well, next time we're going to move away from the Big Trump Fundraiser for a bit to focus on the man who shaped Gedoism for the better, who ensured substance was just as important as style in the King of Sports, who ranks amongst Stan Hansen, Steve Williams, and Terry Gordy as one of the greatest gaijin in the history of Japanese professional wrestling. For now, however, AJ Styles is the Intercontinental Champion, Daniel Bryan is the WWE Champion, Christian is an active wrestler, and all is right with the world.

For now.

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God, Bray Wyatt as The Fiend and with Firefly Fun House is like something out of a creepypasta; the fact that Wyatt came up with all this himself, with little input from Vince, is amazing, IMO...
 
God, Bray Wyatt as The Fiend and with Firefly Fun House is like something out of a creepypasta; the fact that Wyatt came up with all this himself, with little input from Vince, is amazing, IMO...

Goodness, yes. I don't really watch WWE much these days, but I am totally invested in The Fiend. It's a kind of psychological horror that I've never seen in the WWE before now, and I am super excited to see where it goes next. It's a shame that the Survivor Series main'll probably be Brock/Fiend/Cole, because a Brock/Fiend singles match is money, especially with the possibility of The Fiend going over.
 
IV: Wrestling Dontaku 2014
Wrestling Dontaku 2014

Venue: Fukuoka Kokusai Center, Fukuoka
Attendance: 7,190 (Super No Vacancy!)
Announce team: Milano Collection A.T./Kazuo Yamazaki/Kuniaki Kobayashi/Shinpei Nogami​

Just look at how the butter flies.

I will say right now that NJPW updates will be a bit more sporadic, as I'm not really planning on changing things up too much on that front right now. Gedo allegedly has these things planned out a year in advance, after all, so I can't really change things too much in 2014. That being said, there is one major change right off the bat.

Chris Hero d. Kazuchika Okada (c) for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Yep. Knew you weren't expecting this.

So obviously, Gedo wanted AJ Styles to replace Prince Devitt as Bullet Club leader. IOTL he got him, but ITTL WWE signed him up first, which kinda annoyed him. Next he tried Samoa Joe, but Joe's contract wasn't up until December, which bugged the hell out of Joe as he really wanted to do this. Finally, Gedo asked Christopher Daniels, but Daniels didn't want to break up his partnership with Frankie Kazarian, and Gedo didn't want Kaz in Bullet Club. As Wrestle Kingdom 8 came and went, Gedo became more and more conscious of the need to find a suitable replacement for Devitt, and fast. He liked the look of Adam Cole, but Delirious refused to let him drop the ROH World Title just yet. Why not, Gedo asked. Because, Delirious replied, he's facing Chris Hero next month, and Hero's only here until April.

And then Gedo knew.

Chris Hero had originally planned on going to NOAH for the Global Tag League that April, but when he heard that New Japan wanted to bring him on as the new leader of Bullet Club and the 60th IWGP Heavyweight Champion, he quickly bowed out of the competition. (When Hero told Akira Taue that he couldn't make it for personal reasons, Taue was slightly disappointed, but he understood well enough. On Colt Cabana's suggestion, he replaced Hero with a young Scottish lad named Grado, and while they didn't do as well as Hero and Cabana would have, [1] they certainly got over as a team.)

At Invasion Attack, Hero made his debut. Okada and Yoshi-Hashi had just defeated Fale and Tama Tonga, but then- holy shit, it's Chris Hero, and he's going after Okada! As Hero smashed Okada with a rolling elbow and slammed him to the ground with a Hero's Welcome, a thousand smarks around the world lost their shit. Chris Hero is in New Japan! (Reportedly, when Taue heard about Hero's debut, he just nodded and said 'clever bastard' to himself. He knew what was coming.)

Chris Hero is a smark's smark. He's a Misawa fanboy who throws a ton of elbows and fights strong every fucking night. If AJ Styles popularised a more Americanised style of wrestling in NJPW IOTL, Chris Hero is keeping the spirit of King's Road alive in NJPW ITTL. Suffice it to say, he has an absolute fucking banger with Okada at Dontaku, and he gets over with the Fukuoka crowd immediately. [2] We have the same fuck finish here that AJ had IOTL, but this time it absolutely works - the crowd is fucking fuming at Yujiro for betraying Okada and Hero for going over.

Through stupid luck and happenstance, Gedo created one of the most popular gaijin in the history of New Japan Pro Wrestling. While Chris Hero was already regarded amongst smarks as one of the greatest wrestlers in the world, he didn't know just how much his presence would shape New Japan's direction in the years to come.

One thing remains just as true now as it was then, however: Bullet Club Is 4 Life.

[1] IOTL Hero and Cabana won four points - two victories over Katsuhiko Nakajima/Naomichi Marufuji and KENTA/Yoshihiro Takayama. ITTL Grado and Cabana won two points, or one victory against Daisuke Ideka and Mohammed Yone.

[2] AJ and Okada's first match was...kinda mediocre. The crowd didn't really get into it, and combined with the Yujiro fuck finish, nobody really went home happy that night.
 
Goodness, yes. I don't really watch WWE much these days, but I am totally invested in The Fiend. It's a kind of psychological horror that I've never seen in the WWE before now, and I am super excited to see where it goes next. It's a shame that the Survivor Series main'll probably be Brock/Fiend/Cole, because a Brock/Fiend singles match is money, especially with the possibility of The Fiend going over.

The Fiend's (aka Bray Wyatt) mask looks like something Jeff the Killer or another Creepypasta villain would have worn, IMO; it wouldn't surprise me if Wyatt read some of those creepy stories I mentioned...
 
The short, cynical, and probably correct answer is "WWE screws it up because that's what WWE does."

The longer answer is that AJ Styles wasn't AJ STYLES without that NJPW tenure. He needed that two year run to both A - wash the TNA stink off and B - figure out how to be a main eventer. Think of it like wrestling graduate or finishing school. He himself has said the same thing - listen to his "Talk is Jericho" interview from when Y2AJ was a thing in early 2016. He credits Gedo, Tanahashi, Okada, and the Young Bucks for helping him figure out a lot of the little things in his character and gimmick that elevated him into the next level and set the course for his, ahem, phenomenal 2014-2017 run.

He wasn't viewed as anything special post-TNA in 2013, another undersized worker in a sea of them. Look at his Observer Hall Of Fame voting history. He was put on the ballot in 2013 and immediately fell off the ballot because he got so few votes. He was put back on the ballot in 2015, same thing. It wasn't til 2017 - after his NJPW and early WWE run - that he was viewed as worthy of inclusion. That's obviously not the be-all end-all but it is a good barometer of how he was viewed.
 
See, you have a good argument, but idk, I'm a bit sceptical that he wasn't working everyone in that Jericho interview. Like, okay, he wasn't a great heel he joined NJPW, and he absolutely improved since then, but imo he was a terrific babyface and one of the best in-ring talents in the world at the time. Perhaps he was just talking up his former employers so, if the WWE deal went south, he could jump right back into IWGP Heavyweight Championship contention at the end of his contract. I don't feel as though AJ would've been any worse in WWE in 2014 - I mean, he wouldn't have been a main eventer right away (hence why I stuck him in the IC scene for now), but as a wrestler I feel like he would've worked just as well with Vince ITTL as he did IOTL.

Also, I'm super sceptical about your reasoning for the WON Hall of Fame voting history. While I get that he wasn't even on the ballot in 2013, the thing I'm getting is that nobody who got their big break in TNA ever had a chance. Christopher Daniels has never been nominated, James Storm has never been nominated, neither has Chris Harris, Chris Sabin, Petey Williams, Bobby Roode, Alex Shelley, Low-Ki, and countless other folks who've had some of the best matches of all time. (Sure, Samoa Joe was nominated last year, but that's only after three years in the WWE.) The fact that he was nominated at all in 2013, above every indie geek in the world, is a testament to how excellent and influential he was as a wrestler, and he only lost because, as you say, he had that TNA stink on him. Nobody liked TNA in 2013, and that was the biggest problem with his nomination. This is why Sting didn't enter the HoF until Seth Rollins retired him, because he didn't go to the WWE after WCW folded - if he had, he'd have likely entered years ago.

Also, you can't say that WWE would mess him up any more than TNA did, what with his transformation into a Ric Flair clone at one point.
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But Styles was nominated and quickly fell off the ballot in 2013. Lots of people get nominated and then the voters decide they don't belong by not voting for them. Very similar to the MLB Hall of Fame balloting process in that regard. That shows what his reputation was like in 2013 in the wrestling community at large. At that time he was just another good worker in a world full of good workers.

I think a AJ Styles who signs in 2013 is either a low-card geek on the main roster or in NXT. I just don't see a world where Vince McMahon, one of the most petty people in the history of wrestling, doesn't do anything but bury the former face of TNA six feet under. This is the same guy who set tens of millions of dollars on fire botching the Invasion just to prove a point - why wouldn't he do that to 2013 AJ Styles?
 
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