AJ Styles Interview: "I Was Pissed Off!" 3.8.2010
Posted by David Damage on Monday, May 2, 2011
Under: Archive Interviews
AJ Styles recently spoke about the state of TNA, here are some highlights…
On
Losing The Title To RVD: "I definitely didn't understand it. For the
life of me, I couldn't figure it. I was very surprised that they would
want me to lose that title after holding it for so long, and to somebody
who hasn't been in wrestling for over a year, and came from WWE to win
the World Title so quickly. And he should have been tired from wrestling
a match before that (against Jeff Hardy). I was very conflicted on
that. It was like, 'I have no idea what's going on here anymore.' I
don't know how to put it in words. I was pissed off - I don't want to
say that - but at the same time, I was very confused. 'Okay, I guess I'm
not the star that I thought I was here at TNA. I guess I'm just a TNA
guy.'"
On Moving To Mondays: "We never should have switched to
Monday nights. We know that now. I wish that we would have just gone
live on Thursday nights. The first one we did on Monday nights was huge,
but Thursday nights was our night. There's no mistake about it; Monday
night is WWE's. It's theirs. We need to own Thursday nights."
On
Mistakes: "I think there are mistakes that have done. I don't know if
it's necessarily the people we've brought in, but there's stuff where
surely they took a step back and thought, 'Okay, maybe we don't need
this.' There were some people brought in who I don't think we
necessarily needed. But, there's Jeff Hardy. He sells so much
merchandise; he's making so much money for this company. There are other
guys I think who deserved a shot at TNA who are not here that I'm very
confused they're not here because I think they could make money."
On
HardCORE Justice: "It's interesting. I'm anxious to see Jerry Lynn-Rob
Van Dam again. There's going to be other matches that are classic ECW.
I'm not really bothered with it," Styles said. "It is kind of weird
we're having a PPV for those guys, but it's interesting. I think people
will buy this PPV to see, 'I wonder what's going to happen.'"
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