History Wrestling / AustinAries

* LesserOfTwoEvils: The lesser vs Bully Ray toward the tail end of his record breaking TNA X Division run in 2012. This lead to the formation of Wrestling/AcesAndEights after Option C came about to let Aries when TNA's World Heavyweight Championship. AT the time no one knew Bully Ray was the head of Aces And Eights but it would become obvious as more time passed. Aries was also the one to reveal Bully Ray was involved with Brooke Hogan.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: When Aries discovered Wrestling/BobbyRoode had hired Wrestling/AcesAndEights to do his bidding, Aries simply decided to offer them more money than Roode had.

* CoolShades: During his interviews with Ring of Honor after the show went to HD Net. Also wore them pretty often in his non-wrestling segments in TNA, a habit which he took UpToEleven in WWE. Just about any time he's not in the ring wrestling, he's got them on. And given the injury that moved him to the commentary booth, he hasn't been seen without them on WWE programming for ''months.''

** The Kings Of Wrestling to Generation Next. After Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli and Wrestling/ChrisHero managed to beat Aries and Roderick Strong for the ROH tag team championships, follow Generation Next member Matt Sydal eventually managed to win the belts back with Christopher Daniels. Also, whoever Wrestling/PrinceNana was managing.

--> '''Aries:''' ''I think it's safe to say Chain Reaction didn't go quite as we have hoped. And as the leader of the team, I take full responsibility. It's all my fault. As the leader it's my fault, I must take full responsibility, because, you see, you're as strong as your weakest link. And apparently, [[YouHaveFailedMe I've picked some]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis pretty. Weak. Links.]] ''(Walks towards [[ThoseTwoGuys Aussie Open]])'' Aren't you guys supposed to be some tag team specialists? What happened? You ''(Kyle Fletcher)'' were the first one out. Eliminated. And then you ''([[DirtyCop "No Fun" Damian Dunne]])'' I gave you the opportunity to step up against Rampage, man. What happened? What happened to you? You tried? Oh, you tried. That was your best? That was your best. Well, that was pathetic. If that was your best, that was pathethic.''

--> '''Mark Haskins:''' ''You wanna know what's pathethic? [[HeelRealization Pathethic is the alleged leader of this team tapping out like a little bitch]].''

A rundown of his career can be found at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Aries The Other Wiki]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** He and Roderick Strong's excessive beating of Alex Shelley lead to Alex Shelley joining the Embassy and becoming an even bigger pain.
** His mistreatment of Team IPW allowed Stu Bennett to hire them as part of the ''Defiant'' roster in the fallout to ''Defiant Chain Reaction''. And while Aries eventually lost the World Title to Rampage at ''Defiant No Regrets'', Mark Haskins (along with Wrestling/JimmyHavoc) and Aussie Open (the first ones to turn on Aries) got to play HotPotato with the Tag Team title ever since the latter team obtained it, [[SpotlightStealingSquad putting every other team in the background]].

* HopeSpot: As Wrestling/{{M|ontelVontaviousPorter}}VP laid out to him, Wrestling/BobbyLashley was bigger, stronger and faster than Austin Aries, but it turned out Aries was the ''[[InertiaIsAHarshMistress quicker]]'' and more agile of the two and had everyone believing he was going to beat Lashley.

** The Kings Of Wrestling to Generation Next. After Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli and Wrestling/ChrisHero managed to beat Aries and Roderick Strong for the ROH tag team championships, follow Generation Next member Matt Sydal eventually managed to win the belts back with Christopher Daniels. Also, whoever Prince Nana was managing.

* {{Tweener}}: Jimmy Jacobs began to take interest in Austin Aries and his potential for the Age of the Fall after Aries stopped following the {{code of honour}}, following a loss to Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness. Aries did sympathize with Age of the Fall too, or rather he agreed with their message, just not with them personally.

He is best known for his time in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] where he has been a TNA World, Tag Team and X-Division champion. On June 27, 2015, he lost a match to Rockstar Spud and was forced to leave TNA; in reality, his contract expired and he made the decision not to renew it. He would then return to ROH. In January 2016, he would officially sign with WWE, before asking and being granted his release in July 2017. On December 2017 he joined Wrestling/DefiantWrestling for 6 months and is 1x Defiant World Title champion.

* ChainPain: How he won the first match of his second TNA run against Shannon Moore