Simon Dean Reveals That AJ Styles Turned Down an Initial Offer From WWE Many Years Ago

– The Pancakes and Powerslams recently interviewed Simon Dean, who revealed that AJ Styles turned down an initial offer from WWE some years back and opted to work for TNA instead. Dean says AJ Styles received the initial offer from WWE when they were both working together for World Wrestling All-Stars in Australia. Styles took an offer from TNA instead because the offer included building the company around him. Below is an excerpt from the interview (via DailyDDT.com):

“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.”