Almost 12 years later, AJ Styles made his return to Tna Wrestling During the vision payment event Slammiversary 2025. Appeared on the scene after Leon Slater beat Moose to become the new X-Division champion.
Resultados TNA Slammiversary 2025 | Trick Williams vs. Joe Hendry vs. Mike Santana
► AJ Styles returned to TNA
It is unknown if there is a plan for “The Phenomenal One” to appear again in which for many years his house in wrestling but Yes we have new details about this recent return Thanks to our partner Jon Alba of Sports Illustrated:
Multiple sources within TNA told us that The appearance of Styles in TNA Slamniversary was received with generalized enthusiasm for both talent and managers.
We have known that The cameras were following Styles between racks during the nightincluding the moments before your entry. It is not clear if those cameras were from WWE or TNA, or what use will be given to that material.
Several TNA fighters had previously expressed their optimism that Styles plant the bases for a future combat, but that did not happen in the Pay-Per-View. However, this could be due to a situation that was changing on the march. Sources from both TNA and WWE indicated that creative plans for Styles could have changed during the course of the night.
Before the event, several sources of TNA pointed out that WWE's former champion was going to be in UN segment con Frankie Kazarianbut the plans changed in the hours before the show. Mike Johnson of Pwinsider interviewed Kazarian last week, and in that interview a confrontation between them was strongly hinted. Kazarian even made a subtle reference to Styles during the transmission, before joining the commentators' table for the main event.
Despite this, the president of TNA, Carlos Silva, told us that, Although creative plans for Styles “changed several times” in the days before the event, the original idea was always to celebrate its history with division X.
Besides, TNA sources believe that WWE could have influenced the decision not to insinuate a future struggle for Styles in TNA that they were not willing to complysince until now no talent of WWE's main roster has fought in TNA during this alliance.
Despite all this, “The Phenomenal One” was widely praised for his participation in the event, and Several Roster members left from the scenes to see their segment with Slater from the side of the stage.
