10 Most Believable Performers In WWE Today
5. AJ Styles
AJ Styles, in rejecting a WWE developmental deal in 2001, instead chose an arduous road to wrestling stardom. He felt that he was too small to make an impression. Given that WWE subsequently attempted to push the likes of Heidenreich and Nathan Jones from its developmental system, his decision was an astute one.
He instead toiled in ROH and TNA, the latter of which had no idea what they had in their midst. Styles was subjected to some inconceivably bad booking in TNA's attempt to turn him into a sports entertainer - all for the benefit of an alternative audience who loathed those two words. When Styles, by no means a natural on the microphone, spits fire on WWE television today, it's as if he manifests that ignominy into a chip on his shoulder, rallying against the ghosts of his past.
Styles is equally believable between the ropes. Often the smallest man in any given match, his offence, movement and timing is so explosive that it detonates any preconceived notions about performers of his stature.
A short, southern, slight internet darling, AJ Styles has transcended the typical WWE mould because he is, so evidently, what he says he is: phenomenal.