10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week

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!
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