Before coming to NXT as Sami Zayn, El Generico developed from being a slightly silly luchadore character to become one of the finest performers in North America. He travelled everywhere, wrestled everyone and won a whole host of championships along the way. His only meeting (as far as I know) with AJ Styles is a bit of an obscure one as such, but it exists nonetheless. It was actually a triple threat match. The third man going up against these two legendary performers? None other than Crazy Crusher! The match took place in the little known Elite Wrestling Revolution (nope, me neither) and happened over 10 years ago in 2004 in Quebec. All that exists is the highlight video, but I can confirm that it was Styles who came out on top, which isn't much of a surprise considering how much more name value he had at the time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFhbDzVOA0I
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
