AJ Styles made an appearance at the recent Wizard World Portland event. Styles did a Q&A with fans in attendance where he spoke on a wide variety of topics. One of the questions was about his time working for TNA Impact Wrestling and Dixie Carter.
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In case you are unfamiliar, AJ worked for TNA from 2002 until 2013. He says that his time in TNA “flattened” his ego:
“Ring of Honor treated me real well, and New Japan treated me like a superstar. So I’ve got to give credit to them, who helped boost my ego a little bit because it was definitely flattened due to TNA’s service”
He also comments on TNA’s ownership not seeing him as a superstar:
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“Well, at that time Joe and I were hoping to make TNA a big deal. You know, that was what we wanted to do. The problem was, the person who owned the company, she didn’t see that in us. She didn’t see us as the stars that put TNA on the map and not just me but like, Jerry Lynn and Christopher Daniels, and Low Ki, all those guys who did great things and she just didn’t see it. Go put it bluntly, she wanted to be WWE-lite and nobody wanted to see that. They wanted to see something different. And at one point in time, it was a great place to work.”
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