TNA's 10 Best Moments

8. AJ Wins The Gold

As soon as the first TNA weekly pay-per-view debuted, you could tell it was a Jeff Jarrett promotion. He brought in guys like Scott Hall and Ken Shamrock, along with a lot of promising young talent, but he was being built as the centerpiece.

In the first 1061 days of TNA’s existence, Jeff Jarrett held the world title on 732 of those days. In 2005, fans were beyond tired of it. They wanted someone new in the main event scene, someone not from WWE or WCW. They wanted AJ Styles.

Styles held the belt twice at that point, but neither time he won it did the occasion feel prestigious. The first run he had Vince Russo by his side, and the second run, he felt like a transnational champion. At Hard Justice however, fans knew it was his time.

With Tito Ortiz as the special referee, Styles out-dueled Jarrett and an interfering Monty Brown to overcome the odds. When Double J touched the ref, he was knocked out, and Styles hit his incredible Spiral Tap finisher. The crowd exploded as the hero was crowned.

Styles saved the day, and Jarrett’s reign of terror was finally over. Well...for a little while at least.

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