I've seen a few people speculate this AJ Styles commotion is an "angle" or a "work". If that ends up being the case how would you like it to play out?
Posted Jan 23, 2016, 12:38 PM UTC
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AJ goes into WWE. Him, Joe and AA leave with a few big stars to TNA. Will never happen but that would be how I'd love for it to play out. I missed most of the guys leaving WWF and had only started watching WCW after NWO was formed. Would love for this to happen again since it's easy to see that WWE is monopolising the industry.
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If that happened, TNA would be buried in lawsuits and legal filings for a decade, and so would everyone under WWE contract.
Not only would they be breaking their contracts, they'd have negotiated in bad faith, with the intent to do harm. They and TNA might even be open to criminal charges.
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At this point, there's no chance it's a work of any sort.
Best case scenario, TNA brings in some new talent and incorporates losing AJ and the Bullet Club into an angle. Or they form some sort of working agreement with NJPW (which I find highly unlikely, since the almost certainly tampered with Karl Anderson's contract).
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I doubt this is a work also. I mean there's always a chance and I kinda wish it were because of how stupid a move it was. I just don't know who in their right minds would think this was a good idea. And they still have it on the front page of their website they have to know the bad publicity they're getting from this smh
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Matt Farmer of MLW Radio said that contract tampering does not exist in Japan. It's how people have previously moved around so freely.
Saying that, a working agreement won't happen for a long time, if ever. NJPW are still pissed about TNA changing their tag champions on an episode of Impact without asking NJPW first. TNA then treated Okada incredibly poorly, and NJPW have a relationship with ROH. TNA and ROH are practically direct rivals in the States.
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Honestly with how good TNA's story telling has been if this is a work then they have something really ballsy planned.
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TNA congratulated Styles on Twitter. Maybe it was a work?
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I suspect AJ did sign for TNA but got the WWE deal probably pushed by Finn Balor to sign him, so he signed the WWE deal instead, and even if TNA payed more, If I was in AJ's place I would sign with wwe no matter how much TNA pays, I think AJ is almost 40 and he wants to have a Wrestlemania match and with the way this is going he might debut on the Royal Rumble or the RAW after the rumble, he will be getting a match at Wrestlemania, and for every wrestler in the world that's a dream and AJ has the chance to make it happen
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TNA signs Kenny Omega or another guy from New Japan and use the angle that AJ decided to go to WWE instead to avoid the competition. Will NEVER happen but would be a nice storyline