Sportskeeda WWE Awards 2016: Heel of the Year

#2 AJ Styles

This TNA Original is carrying the Smackdown brand

Recruited from the Bullet Club in Japan, AJ Styles would quickly become the MVP of WWE. Becoming the WWE champion in merely seven months since his debut, AJ Styles had brilliant programmes against John Cena as a heel (with Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows in tow).

Of course, his in ring work is so sublime, that sometimes it works against Styles as a heel! It is clear that the WWE Universe has too much respect to boo the man, which brings us to Number 1.

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