1. AJ Styles Was Depressed Following WCW's Closure
Towards the end of World Championship Wrestling's run as a standalone company, AJ Styles had started to make appearances on the main roster of the promotion. Re-named Air Styles, the man teamed with Air Paris to enter the WCW Cruiserweight Tag-Team Title tournament. As soon as his WCW career started, it ended. The WWF managed to swoop in and purchase the ailing WCW. Hoping to earn a spot under the McMahon umbrella, Styles was left despondent when he was informed that the WWF had no need of his services. Talking retrospectively, AJ told Tag Rope magazine that he was depressed upon being told he wasn't moving to the WWF roster. From there, he embraced life on the independent scene once more before eventually joining the upstart TNA promotion. Now, it looks like Styles will achieve his dream of reaching WWE, and says he should probably be thankful he wasn't selected when WCW went out of business. There's a chance AJ would have become lost in the shuffle, but now he comes in as a genuinely red hot free agent. What other big wrestling facts did you learn this week? What do you make of the ones listed here? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments section below!
Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.
