#3 AJ Styles become the first TNA Grandslam Champion – 15th March 2009
TNA Wrestling is indeed the house that AJ Styles built. Having been with the company since its inception till 2015, the X-Division headed by Styles was the main attraction of TNA during its formative years.
Styles would jump to the Heavyweight division as well and despite owner Jeff Jarrett booking himself to be Champion for most of the company’s initial run, AJ won the World title as well. Within a year of the company's inception, Styles would capture the NWA World Heavyweight, NWA Tag team and X-Division titles.
Years later, Jarrett would book former WWE/WCW stars like Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Booker T, Scott Steiner and Sting to win important titles, sidelining TNA’s home grown talent with the exception of Styles.
Banking on such aging stars – many of them had no desire to produce great matches – and it eventually led to a negative reversal in fortunes for TNA, but Styles’ stellar work rate saw his stock rise.
On March 15, 2009, at the Destination X PPV, Styles would win the only TNA title to elude him – the newly introduced TNA Legends Championship – and became the first man to complete the TNA Grandslam i.e. win every available title with the company.
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