AJ on how much TNA really wanted him to take a pay cut by

[héad.casé]

Late in 2013 AJ Styles ended his 11-year run with TNA/Impact when they lowballed him a contract offer. Reports stated that TNA wanted him to take a 60 percent pay cut and Styles responded to that claim during a shoot interview with Title Match Wrestling, that was just uploaded this week.

"I think saying 60 percent is being generous. It's kind of crazy when that's the first offer, you're like 'wait, what? That doesn't make any sense. I've worked here for 11 years, hard for 11 years. I've gotten more popular over the last year, so I don't know what's going on. This doesn't make much sense to me.' Somewhere TNA wasted a lot of money. The guys under contract, the guys who busted their butts are the ones who have to pay the price. That doesn't make sense. That's not fair to them. They're the ones who put their bodies on the line for TNA. To punish them because of your mistakes is terrible."

"I've been a company guy for 11 years, that's exactly who I've been. I've always protected and took up for TNA. I'm in the prime of my career and I've learned so much. I'm able to deliver exactly what they want better now than ever. This is what I do for a living. This is how I support my family. They want me to take a paycheck so I can be a TNA guy-that doesn't concern me. I'm a family man, that's my job. Everyone thinks that we make millions of dollars. That's not how it works. That's not what we do. You have to pay your agent, pay to be on the road, pay your taxes. The reality is that it's not as much as people think. I'm not about to take a pay cut after everything I've done. "

Styles then said that if TNA offered him the same money he was already making in a new contract, then he would have taken that offer. But they didn't offer the same deal or anything close to that.

"Because TNA mismanaged their money, I have to pay the price? That's not how it works and I will not take a backhanded slap like that," said Styles.

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[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

...Well hey, TNA low-balling AJ turned out to be the absolute best thing that could have happened to his career. He doesn't get f***ed by TNA, he doesn't go to New Japan. No New Japan, no WWE run with him actually having his own name and being presented as a top level guy. No WWE run...I don't know where AJ's status in wrestling history would be but it'd undeniably be signficantly lower than what it is now. And I don't want to hear nobody coming at me with "WWE isn't everything!" Yeah, it isn't but also, get real. It's the biggest game in town. For the majority of wrestling fans, that's where you need to go be considered an all-time great and that's exactly what AJ did.

So, thanks for being so bad with money, TNA! You let Lebron James walk and he went Super Sayian.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

That was the day tna died in my opinion.

Like Dixie bought Sting and Angle Rolex watches, she paid Hardy a lot of money for performing on meth and then kept on paying him despite being at home. She also wasted a shit ton of money on Hogan and his useless friends.

She thought AJ was just a random guy that would accept being lowballed. Now AJ is main eventing on the biggest company and Dixie will forever be known as a joke and probably the worst wrestling promoter of all time.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Them trying to f*** AJ on pay really was the tipping point mistake.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

Their loss for being epically stupid financially and managerial-wise...

The day he left TNA for New Japan, a fire was re-lit under him and he turned in his best performances in ages...then going to the WWE, he cemented his status as legendary.

So Dixie...thank you for being an idiot.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

Sept 26, 2018 16:50:37 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

...Dixie will forever be known as a joke and probably the worst wrestling promoter of all time.

Hold my cocaine...

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Sept 26, 2018 16:58:38 GMT -5 Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 said:

Sept 26, 2018 16:50:37 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

...Dixie will forever be known as a joke and probably the worst wrestling promoter of all time.

Hold my cocaine...

Nah he actually paid on time and made enough money to have the best death ever.

Besides the fake UWF didn’t lasted that long to leave the embarrassment and failure that Dixie left.

[DASH 243✅]

Dixie: ok A.J here's the offer 15! yes! 15 Dominos pizza coupons! 40% off each of those pizzas!

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It's honestly kind of inspiring how after years of TNA just completely wasting AJ and paying lip service to the idea of him being their top guy while never actually treating him like it, he eventually wound up in WWE where they pretty much immediately recognized his value and pushed him to the moon.

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Classic TNA is some of the funniest bumblers in the history of bumblef***ery.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

"Everyone thinks that we make millions of dollars. That's not how it works. That's not what we do. You have to pay your agent, pay to be on the road, pay your taxes. The reality is that it's not as much as people think. I'm not about to take a pay cut after everything I've done. "

Well in TNA you didn't AJ but you been hitting close to that since you got to WWE. I wonder how much more he's made in his few years in WWE has compared to his whole run in TNA combined.

[dreamer75]

Sept 26, 2018 16:50:37 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

That was the day tna died in my opinion.

Like Dixie bought Sting and Angle Rolex watches, she paid Hardy a lot of money for performing on meth and then kept on paying him despite being at home. She also wasted a shit ton of money on Hogan and his useless friends.

She thought AJ was just a random guy that would accept being lowballed. Now AJ is main eventing on the biggest company and Dixie will forever be known as a joke and probably the worst wrestling promoter of all time.

At least Dixie won something...
She will never match the entertaining insanity of the now 2nd worst Herb Abrams

[Mayonnaise]

"Because TNA mismanaged their money, I have to pay the price? That's not how it works and I will not take a backhanded slap like that," said Styles.

That maybe the smartest thing I've heard a wrestler say. Not just because of TNA but every company. I'm sure at some point they do it for the love of wrestling and to be a part of it but at some point you have to make money, not everyone can do this for a hobby.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

I'd love for there to be a roast of Dixie Carter where she has to sit there and listen to every stupid thing she's done for six hours.

That could be the reality show you were so desperate for, Dixie!

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Say AJ had gone to WWE earlier and been a mid card workhorse called Jason Valiant.

WWE might have released him because of creative having nothing. They'd have never asked him to take that big a payout even then. It's just boggles my mind.

[Rave]

60%?! F***ing hell. Now they look even worse for trying to contractblock him coming to WWE.

[Shark]

Hearing Prichard's take on this makes Dixie look even worse actually. He had AJ ready to sign a new deal a year or so prior, numbers they all agreed on and Dixie pulled the offer thinking that if she waited until AJ's contract was nearly up, she could lowball AJ and make him panic into signing the offer. You just know that the hamster fell off the wheel when she heard that.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Sept 27, 2018 0:49:40 GMT -5 Shark said:

Hearing Prichard's take on this makes Dixie look even worse actually. He had AJ ready to sign a new deal a year or so prior, numbers they all agreed on and Dixie pulled the offer thinking that if she waited until AJ's contract was nearly up, she could lowball AJ and make him panic into signing the offer. You just know that the hamster fell off the wheel when she heard that.

He was talking about Bobby Roode. Bruce left right before the AJ clusterf***, he wasn’t part of that.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Sept 27, 2018 1:32:23 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Sept 27, 2018 0:49:40 GMT -5 Shark said:

Hearing Prichard's take on this makes Dixie look even worse actually. He had AJ ready to sign a new deal a year or so prior, numbers they all agreed on and Dixie pulled the offer thinking that if she waited until AJ's contract was nearly up, she could lowball AJ and make him panic into signing the offer. You just know that the hamster fell off the wheel when she heard that.

He was talking about Bobby Roode. Bruce left right before the AJ clusterf***, he wasn’t part of that.

Yea, Roode has weird contract situations too. Didn’t his 2nd to last contract run out while he was still champ ? I believe tag team champ

And then obviously he was able to get free of his last contract and go right to WWE because of them owing him and EY money

[Welfare Willis]

So... what AJ is saying is they don't want none.