AJ Styles' World Title Wins Ranked - From Worst To Best

4. TNA World Heavyweight Championship - TNA No Surrender 2009

AJ Styles No Surrender 2009 TNA World Champion
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People tend to point to 2009 as the time TNA truly started getting used to the deeper end of the toilet bowl, but even by late 2009 lightbulbs must have been going off. No Surrender 2009 saw AJ Styles win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship for the very first time, and the card was full of old WWE names and head-scratching booking.

Styles defeated defending champion Kurt Angle, Matt Morgan, Sting and Hernandez in a five-way match, a surefire way to guarantee a title win doesn't feel special. A bored crowd didn't help, but this match was actually a whole lot better than one would expect.

Hernandez is dealt with early, and a lot of the match is centred around Styles and Angle's fantastic chemistry and Matt Morgan's continuing evolution as a top big guy. That guy had a whole hunk of potential. Styles wins after a springboard 450, and it seemed like TNA was moving in the right direction ahead of Hogan and Bischoff arriving.

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