A.J. STYLES

Allen Neal Jones is a 47-year-old wrestler from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Jones is currently signed with the WWE and performs on SmackDown under the ring name, A.J. Styles.

Since childhood, Jones has been a fan of professional wrestling but was unable to watch it because his family couldn’t afford cable television. He attended Anderson University on a partial wrestling scholarship but left to try professional wrestling.

AJ Styles’ Early Wrestling Career

Jones made his wrestling debut in 1998 in a promotion known as National Championship Wrestling (NCW) where he wrestled as the masked wrestler, Mr. Olympia. He lost his first match to a wrestler known as Michael Brooks.

In December 1999, when the NCW merged with NWA Georgia to form NWA Wildside, Jones took on the ring name, A.J. Styles. He signed with NWA-TNA appearing sporadically. AJ Styles won the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship in December 2001.

Atlanta-based World Championship Wrestling offered Styles a contract in early 2001 and he was placed in a tag team with Air Paris called Air Raid. A.J. Styles also had a tryout for the WWF in July 2001 but did not make the cut. He made two more appearances for the WWF in 2002 and was offered a developmental deal contract that required him to relocate to Cincinnati, Ohio but he declined.

A.J. Styles Joins World Wrestling All-Stars

Instead, Styles began wrestling for Australian promotion, World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) and then traveled to the UK to debut in Frontier Wrestling Alliance and then came back to the US to wrestle for IWA: Mid-South. In 2002, he joined Ring of Honor and quickly became a main event attraction. He teamed with Amazing and together they won the ROH Tag Team Championship and then became the ROH Pure Wrestling Champion.

A.J. Styles also began wrestling exclusively for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2002. Styles’ career at TNA was impressive with him winning the TNA X Division Championship six times, the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice, the TNA World Heavyweight Championship two times and many other titles.

From 2003 to 2005, A.J. Styles also wrestled on the independent circuit and in the coming years he then began working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling and various independent promotions including Combat Zone Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

AJ STYLES
A.J. Styles

STATS

Birth name: Allen Neal Jones
Born: June 2, 1977, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA
Height: 5 ft 11 in (180cm)
Weight: 218 lb (99 kg)
Spouse: Wendy Jones
Children: 4
Ring Name(s): Air Styles, A.J. Styles, Mr. Olympia
Current Roster: WWE SmackDown
Finishing Move(s): Styles Clash, Phenomenal Forearm

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