AJ Styles Wins The WWE Championship

Backlash – September 11th 2016

At Backlash, AJ Styles took on Dean Ambrose for the WWE World Championship. AJ won the match after hitting a low-blow, ‘Styles Clash’ combo.

For Styles, it marked an incredible rise up the WWE ladder since making his debut back in January. In less than 10 months, AJ Styles was able to defeat John Cena twice and become World Champion in WWE. 2 accomplishments that don’t happen very often.

It was an awesome moment and showed us just how much faith WWE has in AJ Styles. Not many guys have had as impressive of a first year in WWE than AJ.

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