I read a lot of good ideas, some I had thought of and a few made me think up others. When AJ left TNA following the "No Title Match For a Year" stip and the last CLEAN lost to Daniels, my original thought was how easy would it be to revitalize the X Division a little bit (no offense to RVD but its not his fault, he can only go up against the same opponents for so long where the matches AREN'T predictable) by pushing Styles as a top contender for the X Division title? Killing two birds with one stone: You have an X-Division mainstay to help up the ante competition wise, in which he would eventually capture the X-Division title from RVD with a lot of great matches between himself and the likes of a Kenny King or Zema Ion along the way (of course boosting their credibility in the ring even more), have him hold the title up until Destination X and then of course have him trade in his title for a TNA Title shot, thus having him win it FINALLY. But of course with TNA's recent decision to only keep 4 PPVs NOT including Destination X, I had to put my thinking cap on.
I WOULD REALLY HATE to see him as part of the Aces & Eights angle. Too many people have already said it: there's nothing about him that screams biker gang. Though on paper it makes sense since he was pissed off and tired of being TNAs janitor, that he would join A&8s but doesn't mean it's believable. I mean given his tenure at TNA and how his heel runs have turned out I don't think its a very good idea. Example: when he was involved as part of Team Angle with Tomko it eventually pretty much lead to him turning face while at the same time not being taken to seriously as heel. Immortal? Sure they had him and the rest of Fourtune but they treated him like he was a cronie or someone to handle their dirty work and otherwise not featured as prominently alongside his TNA alumni. Another idea was for him to be like Sting to the nWo back in WCW where no one could really tell who's side he was on. Creative but redundant, I mean its bad enough when A&8s came out last week at the top of the show and dropped a third rate version of an nWo promo. I see what they're trying to do with the direction of A&8s but even the WCW fans of that era don't even wanna see that angle again. Ken is good where he is, though Brisco and Garrett bring down the actual 'tough image' or A&8s SIGNIFICANTLY, they dont need to drag AJ into that mess. He's already been through one tragedy of a angle last year.
I WOULD REALLY HATE to see him come back as a face to start up ANOTHER angle with Daniels or Kazarian as we have seen WAY more matches between them in just this last year than in the entire start up years of TNA (ok exaggerating a bit but you get the point, we as fans don't enjoy blatant lazy booking being shoved in our faces). Instead, and although I am more of a fan for Styles being face, what if he did return to help Daniels win the title from Hardy? In a sense Hogan has been tired of Bad Influence since the start of the whole Clare Lynch fiasco, whenever they are on screen together whether Hogan/Daniels or Hogan/Kaz he always makes it known that he is not fond of them at all. So with a returning AJ Styles no longer wanting to be a janitor for TNA why not stick it straight to Hogan's face by not only helping the guy that's been on his bad side but also costing the guy that Hogan and TNA management are ALWAYS getting behind (Hardy) the TNA title? If it indeed does happen that way, would it be that far off to see a trio faction consisting of AJ, Kaz and Daniels in maybe a new version of Triple X? 3 former X Division champs, 3 TNA mainstays, 2 of which have always called bias on the TNA management side and 1 who has recently left due to his grievances with TNA management. The whole year Kaz and Daniels have been feuding with AJ over his 'special" treatment in TNA could have finally paid off into AJ realizing that he was done wrong by TNA management too.
Though it's kind of hard to forgive and forget someone who was basically trying to sabotage and frame you for a horribly executed angle of infidelity, this COULD be a great way to bring him back and creative to have something for him.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE if he did come back as a face if he and Storm did start a program as a tag team together to take on Roode and Aries in their attempt to take all of the TNA titles. Those four names just screams star power potential. All 4 men in their own rights have accomplished a lot in TNA, all of whom are ex TNA Heavyweight champs. The chemistry that those four could build embroiled in a tag team feud would be ridiculous. Hell even have Storm/AJ try to go after all the titles as well! Either way this idea was posted earlier and I very much liked it and am NOT taking credit. Either two of these ideas I think would be the best way of bringing him back in with something credible.
