Name: プロレスの原点。A.J.スタイルズ (Wrestling Origins: A.J. Styles)
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Allen Neal Jones was born in June of 1977 in Jacksonville, North Carolina. More specifically,

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he was born on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, as his father was serving as a Marine. At

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just a year old, Jones family moved to Gainesville, Georgia, which is where he grew up.

Jones grew up with his brothers, his mother, and his alcoholic father. His father would

“come home looking for a fight” after a night of drinking and “took it out on

his kids and sometimes his wife”. However, Jones is adamant in saying that despite his

faults, he knew his father loved him. Unlike most wrestling fans growing up, Jones

didn’t watch WWE or WCW much as it wasn’t really available to him. Growing up, Jones’

family was quite poor and could barely afford basic TV. So instead, Jones grew up watching

Georgia Championship Wrestling, though even that was limited due to poor TV reception.

Admittedly, he wasn’t really a huge fan of wrestling as a kid anyway.

Living in poverty, the family of 6 was crammed into a small trailer, where he and his brothers

were stuffed into one room together. These were not easy conditions to live in.

As you may know, Allen Jones is a very religious man. He stated that he would go to church

every Sunday as a child with his family, but religion was never forced upon him by anybody,

and that he decided for himself that the Christian faith was “where he belonged”. He’s

been a devout Christian since the early 90’s. Allen has been an athlete ever since he was

a kid. He played football, basketball, and baseball as he simply loved sports. He also

has a background in amateur wrestling, but didn’t enjoy it as much given that the conditioning

was so intense. Jones attended Johnson High School in Gainesville

and graduated in 1996. From there he went on to Anderson College in South Carolina on

a partial wrestling scholarship to study Physical Education. However just as spring break rolled

around his first year, Jones decided to call it quits and move back home. He didn’t have

a real backup plan, but decided to just get a regular job instead of staying at school.

One day Allen’s friends decided to go to a wrestling school and convinced him to tag

along. When he made it there, Jones decided that he was already there and may as well

give it a shot. As soon as he got in the ring, Jones instantly knew this was something he

would be good at. Jones was officially trained by Rick Michaels

and debuted in 1998, just two years after graduating High School, in the Georgia-based

National Championship Wrestling. Here he would go under the name Mr. Olympia. He would lose

in his very first match to Michael Brooks, but would begin to prosper soon after. By

August of 1999, Mr. Olympia was the promotion’s Television Champion.

Just like most of the wrestling origins videos, I’m not going to cover every single independent

promotion Jones wrestled in, just the larger ones. But just for fun, I’ll list off a

bunch of the smaller ones he competed in. Great Canadian Wrestling, All Pro Wrestling,

United Wrestling Federation, One Pro Wrestling, Game Changer Wrestling, Valhalla Pro Wrestling,

and International Wrestling Cartel. And that is only scratching the surface.

Speaking of the independent circuit, in 2001, now going under A.J. Styles, he would compete

in All Pro Wrestling’s King of the Indies tournament, but was eliminated in the quarter

finals by Christopher Daniels. Just a few months later in X Wrestling Federation,

Styles would lose in a battle royal for the XWF Cruiserweight title against the likes

of Christopher Daniels, Juventud Guerrera, Kid Krash, and Psicosis.

Moving forward a few more months, Styles would debut in Australia’s World Wrestling All-Stars

in early 2002. Styles would compete in some big matches here, but failed to capture the

Cruiserweight Championship. However, that changed when Styles defeated Super Nova and

Jerry Lynn to win a tournament for the title. Shortly after the win though, Styles would

vacate the belt. Styles would also compete in IWA Mid-South

later that year, along with Frontier Wrestling Alliance in the UK.

Going back to 1999 for a second, the A.J. Styles name was born after two wrestling promotions,

NCW and NWA Georgia, merged to form NWA Wildside, the developmental territory of WCW. Here Styles

would capture his second Television Championship in January of 2000, only to lose it and regain

it one more time in the span of a year. In early 2001, WCW scouted both A.J. Styles

and Air Paris from NWA Wildside, placing them in a tag team called Air Raid. The team would

have a short stint in WCW, appearing on WCW Nitro, but nothing really came from it as

just 5 months into Styles’ main roster career, the promotion went under.

Following WCW’s demise, Styles went back to NWA Wildside where he would quickly become

NWA Georgia Champion after defeating Rick Michaels. After 2002 however, Styles only

appeared in Wildside for the odd appearance, as at this point he was signed to the newly

founded TNA. He would wrestle against some big names in Wildside, but his main focus

was elsewhere. Speaking of 2002, it was a big year for Styles’

career. Before the TNA offer was even on the table, Styles made two appearances for WWE.

The first was in January of 2002 on an episode of Metal, where he lost to The Hurricane.

The second was a dark match before SmackDown, which he lost as well.

However, in April of 2002 WWE would offer Styles a developmental deal that required

him to relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio to wrestle in the Heartland Wrestling Association. However,

Styles declined the offer on the ground that relocation was not an option, as his wife

was trying to pursue college and this would interfere.

Bear with me, I will get to his TNA career soon, but first let’s cover Ring of Honor.

In 2002, Styles made his debut in ROH and quickly became a main eventer. Here he would

be the first to hold the “Number One Contender’s Trophy” which was considered a secondary

championship. After a few failed attempts at the ROH Championship, Styles decided to

pursue the Tag Team titles, which he won with Amazing Red. The two would hold the belts

for a while, defeating the Briscoe Brothers on three occasions, but lost to Christopher

Daniels and Xavier, a team known as The Prophecy. Styles would win the tag titles back, however

with a new partner named Homicide. Styles would later jump back into singles

competition and took fellow Georgia wrestler Jimmy Rave under his wing. Styles would defeat

Bryan Danielson to become number one contender for the title, but lost to the champion Samoa

Joe. However, Styles would become the first ROH Pure Wrestling Champion after defeating

CM Punk in the finals of a tournament. Styles would also defeat Punk in the rematch for

the belt, but due to controversy over in TNA where he was under contract, he was forced

to leave ROH and vacate the title. Styles would return to ROH in 2005 and 2006

where he would have a feud with former protégé Rave which featured the memorable moment of

Styles being suffocated with a plastic bag. Styles would go on to defeat the likes of

Roderick Strong, Austin Aries, and Abyss, but would lose to Bryan Danielson for the

ROH World Championship. Now, back to TNA, where A.J. signed a non-exclusive

contract back in May of 2002 just as TNA was starting up. In fact, Styles may have been

the first wrestler ever signed to the promotion. Here he was referred to as “The Phenomenal”

A.J. Styles. Styles would spend over a decade in TNA, where he would become the face of

the company. Styles started off by becoming the inaugural

TNA X Division Champion after defeating Jerry Lynn, Low Ki, and Psicosis. He would also

win a second title, the NWA World Tag Team title, with Lynn soon after. Not too long

after that though, the tag team would fall apart and Styles and Lynn would feud to no

avail. Styles would also lose his X Division title to Low Ki, but would regain it in late

2002. However, Styles would once again lose it, but this time to Lynn.

In 2003, Styles began to focus on the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and finally

won it in June of that year to become the first TNA Triple Crown winner. He would hold

this title for a few months, defeating numerous challengers, until he lost it to Jeff Jarrett

who insisted Styles abandon the Heavyweight title and return to the X Division. Style’s

would refuse, but after winning and dropping the title one more time, he decided head back.

In 2004, Styles would quickly become X Division champion and had a memorable feud with Petey