5 Things that would have happened if AJ Styles joined WWE 10 years ago

#2 AJ Styles would have avoided the two lacklustre angles of his career

Woooooo? More like Booooooo, amirite?

Look, it's easy to bash TNA Impact. Anyway, let's move on. Seriously, though, from its inception in 2002 to, well, fairly recently, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling - or just Impact Wrestling as it would prefer to be called now - has taken a lot of flack for its pretty ridiculous stories and management decisions (come on, they hired Vince Russo, like a bunch of times). However, that's mostly because the bad stuff really - really - sticks out. It's easy to forget some of the really good stuff they've put out - like most of the X Division stuff and some classic matches featuring AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Abyss, and so many others.

So, as I said, it's easy to bash TNA during those years, but they also did a lot of stuff well.

The "AJ Styles is the New Nature Boy" and "Claire Lynch" angles are not two examples of that. And, as a legit admirer of AJ Styles work, I feel bad even bringing these up.

The first is just what it sounds like - with AJ Styles as TNA World Champion and Ric Flair as his mentor, Flair attempted to turn Styles into... well... the next Ric Flair. The problem with that being that while both men were (and are) amazing in-ring performers, their personalities are complete opposites of each other. Seeing the wholesome, well-managed Southern boy Styles trying to pretend like he's the jet flying, limousine ride... you know, all that stuff Flair said he was... nobody was buying it. It was hard to watch.

Also hard to watch was the entire "Claire Lynch" story, which went from Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian accusing AJ Styles of having an affair with then-TNA President Dixie Carter, to them accusing Styles of having an affair with a woman named... well... Claire Lynch, and getting her pregnant.

Look, I could describe what this was all about, but Brian Zane of Wrestling With Wregret did it so much better than I ever could, so I'll just let him do it.

In the overall scheme of things, when we look back at the career of AJ Styles once he calls it a career, these will simply be two blips on his radar. Brian pointed out, every performer gets stuck with at least one bad storyline in their career. Besides, who's to say that Styles wouldn't have been saddled with things equally as stupid if he had been in WWE?

I think we can all pretty much agree that probably would have happened.