Former WWE performer, Simon Dean revealed why former WWE Champion, AJ Styles, declined WWE’s initial offer to bring him into the company via the Pancakes and Powerslams show.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
“I was right there for it. It was me and AJ; we were in Australia doing a tour for World Wrestling All-Stars. I told him I had been signed by WWE, they had a tryout in Cincinnati and he had went to that. I thought I was going to have to go to that and I didn’t, I went right through it. In Cincinnati, he’d told me basically, after the tour in Australia we’d come back, and they had a show in Vegas.”
“Bob Ryder and Jeff Jarrett had come up to me and they told me that they were launching this new company called TNA. I told them that I had just signed with WWE and I want to give it a shot. They wanted me to come to TNA and they wanted to build the company around AJ. So, it’s not that AJ never wanted to go to the WWE, it was just that the offer was never right for AJ to come to WWE.”