History Wrestling / AJStyles

** Despite all the rumors, reports, and even a statement on the TNA website all but confirming it true, seeing AJ debut in WWE at the Royal Rumble was absolutely surreal. Many fans still couldn't believe that he was really there.

** He won TNA's 2013 Bound For Glory Series, little did we know that would be the beginning of the end of his run there.

* ActionDad: He has four children, each with his same first and last initials and with their birthdays tattooed on his side.

** During the tournament to crown the first ROH Pure Champion, every one of his opponents targeted AJ Styles' knee, including it getting dropped onto concrete during his final match up with CM Punk. Didn't stop him from winning the whole thing though.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Mr. Olympia used to be known for chaining together different suplexes and being a superior mat wrestler. He took to jumping on the top rope and turnbuckle more when he found himself competing for attention with much larger wrestlers, such as Abyss in Wildside. Even after he established himself on TNA Impact, Don West would negatively contrast 'little' AJ to the towering Matt Morgan (AJ's shorter but still taller than the average American man) and argue that AJ had lost his 'hunger' when he stopped flying around as much.

** Averted in his heel runs in NJPW and WWE. In NJPW he became the IWGP Heavyweight Champion twice, one of them in his first match there as more than a TNA guest, and the only one of the three[[note]]four, counting Anderson[[/note]] Bullet Club leaders to win said title. In WWE as a heel he beat Wrestling/JohnCena clean at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'' and became the WWE Champion within his first year, holding onto the belt for several months before dropping it to Cena who simultaneously got his runback at the 2017 Royal Rumble, but as a face lost his first ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' match to Wrestling/ChrisJericho and has lost matches with title ramifications to the likes of Wrestling/BaronCorbin and Wrestling/JinderMahal.

'''No, they don't want none! No, they don't want none! They running scared! No, they don't really want none!'''

As usual, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJ_Styles The Other Wiki]] has a detailed profile of his career. Also, don't confuse him with Wrestling/AJLee. And no, he is not related to Wrestling/JoeyStyles.

** Then there's TheReveal of [[MassiveMultiplayerScam Immortal]] (and Fortune's [[VillainTeamUp association with them]]) followed up by the ConspiracyRedemption HeelFaceTurn of all of Fortune.

* ConspicuousGloves: First wore full gloves during his Elevation X match against [[Wrestling/{{Rhyno}} Rhino]] in Wrestling/{{TNA}}. He later started making them part of his regular wrestling gear.

During Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2016'', AJ made his WWE debut. He later earned his first title shot with the company, challenging Wrestling/RomanReigns for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at ''Payback''. During the 2016 Brand Extension, AJ was drafted to ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Smackdown Live]]'' as its no. 2 pick. He would quickly win the the WWE World Championship at ''Wrestling/{{Backlash}}'' and hold it for the rest of the year, before dropping it to his rival Wrestling/JohnCena at ''Royal Rumble 2017''. He won his second WWE Championship by defeating Wrestling/JinderMahal in the November 7, 2017 episode of Smackdown in Manchester, England (the first officially-recognized WWE title change to occur outside of North America and the first time the WWE Championship changed hands on Smackdown since 2003). He is also a two-time United States Champion, after defeating then champion Wrestling/KevinOwens at a WWE Live Event, dropping it to Owens at ''Battleground'' and winning it back in a Triple Threat match with Owens and the returning Wrestling/ChrisJericho, then losing to Wrestling/BaronCorbin in another Triple Threat match with Corbin and Tye Dillinger at ''Wrestling/HellInACell''. He would also capture the Intercontinental Championship on June 12, 2020 by defeating [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] on a tournament for the vacant championship.

** Wrestling/MichelleMcCool is sort of a DistaffCounterpart to him. Starting in 2009 when Michelle started using the Styles Clash, which she renamed the Faith Breaker, as her finishing move. Later became more apparent when she and Wrestling/{{Layla}} started wearing hooded robes as part of their Wrestling/LayCool entrance. Oddly extends to RealLife as well, since both are devout Christians from the DeepSouth.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: When he teamed with Tomko.