10 Wrestling Facts We Didn’t Know Last Week (Oct 19)
3. Hulk Hogan Wanted AJ Styles To Bleach His Hair
As aforementioned, Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff brought a major sea change to the way TNA operated when they joined in late-2009. By the following year, the product was almost unrecognisable, and stalwarts such as AJ Styles were pushed into new roles. Namely, they tried to make AJ the second coming of Ric Flair.
Woooooo-oops. Yeah, it didn't work, and that's not AJ's fault.
Vince Russo, then a creative mind for the company, told this week on his Truth With Consequences podcast that Hulk wanted to go further with the Styles experiment. Not content to have Flair talk up AJ in promos or accompany him to the ring, he was the one who pushed for Styles to wear 'Nature Boy' robes and start saying 'Woo'.
It could've been worse though, because Hogan also wanted AJ to bleach his hair blonde like Flair always had. Russo-isms should always be taken with a pinch of salt, and yet this is totally believable. No wonder AJ wasn't exactly happy looking during that spell.