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Allen Neal Jones 

(born June 2, 1977) is an American professional


wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under
the ring name AJ Styles (also stylized as A.J. Styles), and is one half of the
current WWE Raw Tag Team Champions with Omos in their first reign.[5] He is
also known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now known as
Impact Wrestling) from 2002 to 2014 and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from
2014 to 2016.
He debuted in 1998 and competed for various independent promotions before
gaining initial mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in
2001. Styles became widely known after signing with TNA, who described him as
"the cornerstone of the company since [its] inception";[3] he won the TNA World
Heavyweight Championship twice, the NWA World Heavyweight
Championship three times, and was the inaugural titleholder of the X Division
Championship, which he won six times. He is also the first TNA Triple
Crown and Grand Slam champion.[6] Styles simultaneously appeared in Ring of
Honor (ROH) from 2002 to 2006, where he became the inaugural ROH Pure
Champion, and wrestled in NJPW between 2014 and 2016, where he won
the IWGP Heavyweight Championship twice.[7]
Styles first appeared in World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 2002,
but declined a developmental contract. He returned to the company in 2016, and
won the WWE Championship twice; with his second victory in Manchester, Styles
is recognized by WWE as the first wrestler to win the title outside North America.
At 371 days, this is the eighth-longest reign in title history. He also won
the United States Championship three times, and the Intercontinental
Championship and the Raw Tag Team Championship once each, thus becoming
the second wrestler (after Kurt Angle) to become a TNA/Impact and WWE Triple
Crown winner, and the first to become both a TNA/Impact and WWE Grand
Slam champion.
Long considered one of the world's best professional wrestlers,[8] Styles has
headlined numerous pay-per-view events, including the respective premier
events of WWE and TNA, WrestleMania and Bound for Glory. He ranked atop
the annual Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500 in 2010, the first TNA wrestler to do so,
was voted PWI Wrestler of the Year three times between 2016 and 2018, and
Wrestler of the Decade in 2020. Styles also won ten Wrestling Observer
Newsletter awards, including Wrestler of the Year in 2015 and 2016, and was
inducted in their Hall of Fame in 2017.

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