10 Secrets Nobody Has Told You About WCW

9. A Fledgling Phenomenal One

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The image shown here is AJ Styles casually hitting the Styles Clash on Kaz Hayashi of the Jung Dragons on the final ever episode of WCW Thunder.

While many savvy wrestling fans will clearly be well aware of the Phenomenal One's time with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, TNA, and Ring of Honor, a portion of those knowledgeable fans may be completely unaware that Styles ever stepped foot in a WCW ring.

Just 23 years of age at this point, AJ landed in WCW at the start of 2001. Dubbed Air Styles and teamed up with Air Paris to form the Air Raid tandem, the future WWE Champion competed four times on WCW television before the company was eventually purchased by the then-WWF.

Of those four matches, all of them were tag team outings alongside Paris, and only one - against the Boogie Knights pairing of Alex Wright and Disco Inferno - was a victory.

Oh, and for those wondering about the accompanying picture, Kaz kicked out of the Styles Clash at two, and Hayashi would later pin AJ to get the 1-2-3 for the Jung Dragons.

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