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Post by Instant Classic on Oct 19, 2014 13:49:31 GMT -5
I thought it was cool for what it was and the start of forutne 4.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Oct 19, 2014 14:30:03 GMT -5
No, because the pairing felt forced especially when TNA tried to morph AJ into Ric Flair Jr. Roode would made a better pupil of Naitch.
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Post by Woo on Oct 19, 2014 15:46:09 GMT -5
God no.
It was one of the stupidest things they have ever done. AJ Styles has the look of a superstar and has one of the best babyface movesets of the last 20 years and was beloved by fans. So let's change everything about him, turn him heel and then turn him into Ric Flair.
It was the straw that broke the camel's back as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by SkullTrauma on Oct 19, 2014 16:39:01 GMT -5
no, but I can't stand AJ Styles to begin with.
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Post by AtomSmasher on Oct 20, 2014 3:39:23 GMT -5
Absolutely not.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 20, 2014 3:51:46 GMT -5
It needlessly demeaned AJ, both by making it like he needed Flair, when as said before, Roode would have fit better with Flair. It was a demotion of sorts for AJ in order to put over Flair, and beyond that, it was forcing a square peg into a round hole.
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Post by comahan on Oct 20, 2014 4:16:47 GMT -5
Great pairing in theory, but having Styles go way out of his element by being faux Nature Boy was terrible. I really liked Flair as a manager though.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Oct 20, 2014 6:48:21 GMT -5
there were a lot of guys in TNA who needed a manager to help them get over. AJ wasn't one of them.
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Post by Session Moth is over on Oct 20, 2014 9:06:16 GMT -5
Styles was awesome in early TNA, I was a big fan. But this was a terrible pairing. He didn't have the right tools nesassary to pull off Ric Flair lite. He wasn't anything like The Nature Boy.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 20, 2014 9:14:07 GMT -5
Great pairing in theory, but having Styles go way out of his element by being faux Nature Boy was terrible. I really liked Flair as a manager though. Yeah, the problem wasn't with Flair being a manager. He was damn good at it... the problem was that they stuck him with AJ Styles and then acted like Styles needed Flair... when AJ WAS ALREADY THE CHAMPION AND HAD BEEN MULTIPLE TIMES AT THAT POINT.
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Post by Ryushinku on Oct 20, 2014 9:23:19 GMT -5
When AJ came out with the slight blond frosting on his hair, it was one of the clearest "I don't wanna do it!" things I'd seen in a while.
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Post by DjZonk on Oct 20, 2014 14:29:20 GMT -5
I thought it was awful and by his own account AJ felt uncomfortable. It was a foolish move.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Oct 20, 2014 23:16:20 GMT -5
They had some sort of chemistry, they even got along outside of the ring, but it simply didn't worked because they tried to make AJ into Flair, maybe the mentor and protege pairing would've worked if it was AJ Styles in his own persona and not trying to copy Flair. Flair should've adapted to AJ, not the other way around. f*** instead of AJ wearing the robe and being blonde, he would've looked better with his hoodie and long tights with Flair coming down to the ring with him bowing and during promos saying that AJ was the best wrestler in the world.
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Post by Just call me D.j.m. on Oct 20, 2014 23:24:41 GMT -5
I have a hard time saying anything other than it was the worst thing AJ Styles has ever been involved with in his wrestling career.
And, yes. I'm saying Claire Lynch was better. Yeah, I said it. I f***ing said it.
Claire Lynch was better than AJ being morphed into Ric Flair, Jr.
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Post by JTG Fan on Oct 21, 2014 0:34:32 GMT -5
I liked the idea of it because Flair in his corner really did help make Triple H seem like a larger than life, mega superstar World Champion. But while HHH could pull off copying certain elements of classic Flair, AJ Styles was just a completely different type of wrestler.
Honestly, it would have made a ton more sense if it was Angle who turned heel at Genesis 2010 and won the TNA World Title from AJ with Flair's help. To that point Angle had not been able to defeat Styles and Flair often went on record talking about how Angle was the best wrestler in the world, so it would have made a lot more sense from a storyline perspective. Granted though Angle had just turned babyface several weeks before after a lengthy heel run on top but the whole company was basically rebooting anyway in 2010 with Hogan and Bischoff taking over. Heel World Champion Kurt Angle with manager Ric Flair with babyface AJ Styles chasing them probably would have been better creatively and in terms of drawing.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 21, 2014 1:19:57 GMT -5
I think AJ Styles and Ric Flair could have been a great pairing, but turning AJ into Flair-lite was asinine.
And then next year, they attempted to present Bobby Roode as a blue-collar hero of the masses. Yes, the guy who was previous CEO of Robert Roode enterprises, the guy who had been previously been so rich that legendary managers like Sherri Martel and Bobby Heenan were in his tax bracket, the god damn MONEY of Beer Money, was now being forced into the role of hard-working everyman.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 21, 2014 2:51:46 GMT -5
I think AJ Styles and Ric Flair could have been a great pairing, but turning AJ into Flair-lite was asinine. And then next year, they attempted to present Bobby Roode as a blue-collar hero of the masses. Yes, the guy who was previous CEO of Robert Roode enterprises, the guy who had been previously been so rich that legendary managers like Sherri Martel and Bobby Heenan were in his tax bracket, the god damn MONEY of Beer Money, was now being forced into the role of hard-working everyman. So rich, Eric Young was his slave for reasons that were poorly explained at best, leading to a feud that felt like it went on for 23 years.
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Post by WWEedy on Oct 21, 2014 4:46:42 GMT -5
I think the spot of Flair's protege was pretty much hand crafted for Bobby Roode and other than the Angle suggestion above, which I never even considered but makes a boatload of sense, I think it would have been out of place anywhere else. So no, AJ as Flair's golden boy didn't do it for me in the slightest.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 21, 2014 6:39:40 GMT -5
It could have worked in theory, but they booked Styles like a total moron
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Post by kingoftheindies on Oct 21, 2014 13:48:18 GMT -5
I have a hard time saying anything other than it was the worst thing AJ Styles has ever been involved with in his wrestling career. And, yes. I'm saying Claire Lynch was better. Yeah, I said it. I f***ing said it. Claire Lynch was better than AJ being morphed into Ric Flair, Jr. Funny enough AJ hated being with Flair. Originally he thought it would be cool to have him as a mentor but they wanted him to actually be Ric Flair (they asked him to bleach his hair). What ended up on tv was basically the only things AJ was willing to do. AJ also hated Clair Lynch, but that's because he Daniels, and Kaz came up with the idea and TNA completely changed the idea.
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