10 Reasons AJ Styles Is The Best WWE Signing Of The Decade
2. Claiming A Legacy
When WWE finally made WCW icon Sting an offer he couldn't refuse in 2014, they did so with caveats that he'd lose high profile matches to both Triple H and Seth Rollins in an oddly dissatisfying swing through the past and present of the company's upper tier.
A battle they chose not to fight was that of convincing conversion - 'The Icon' eventually went into the WWE Hall Of Fame but didn't as a WWE Superstar despite his grapple with 'The Game' and lone title shot against The Authority's 'Architect' in 2015. He was Mr. WCW in much the same was AJ was considered TNA '4 life'.
A New Japan Pro Wrestling stint already looks long in Styles' rear view mirror thanks to the blanket coverage of WWE's product and AJ's prominence at the centre of it. A two-time United States and WWE Champion, he's already supplanted himself amongst the company's best and brightest with belts, and the organisation have previously proven proficient at exquisitely twisting stories to suit their own narrative.
Should AJ even get close to spending half the time with WWE that he did in Dixieland, permanent 'Superstar' status beckons for the future Hall-Of-Famer. He's theirs. All theirs.