"AJ Styles Is Every Bit As Good As Shawn Michaels" - Kurt Angle

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Not about how many times you use the top rope, but telling a story
Interesting. The singular reason Tanahashi called AJ better than himself, and currently the best in the world, is because he's able to tell a story in all of his matches, despite working a disjointed schedule all over the world and not even having storylines because of it.

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Interesting. The singular reason Tanahashi called AJ better than himself, and currently the best in the world, is because he's able to tell a story in all of his matches, despite working a disjointed schedule all over the world and not even having storylines because of it.

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Do it in the major leagues where it counts if you want it to mean something in this business
 

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That reference though.
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That reminds me the time Matt Striker referenced them in a PPV match and Cole and Lawler CHASTISED him for the rest of the night because they apparently didn't know who the Jumping Bomb Angels were (They already hated him, but that made it worse)
 

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Do it in the major leagues where it counts if you want it to mean something in this business
Why does being in the 'major leagues' mean anything to you as a fan? His skills don't 'count' because he's never been in WWE? :smh:

His career does mean something in this business and he's not a spot monkey. He's Assassin Japan Styles.
 

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You mean Austin?
Nah...Rock wrestled more, didn't have a year off, and produced the best feuds of the generation. Who would Cripple H bewithout Rock? Kurt Angle? Foley would of fell off he didn't play the Rock's sidekick in 99..Rock had fans paying for a damn Al Snow cage match...louder than any match AJ Styles or Shawn Michaels have ever been in.
 

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Nah...Rock wrestled more, didn't have a year off, and produced the best feuds of the generation. Who would Cripple H bewithout Rock? Kurt Angle? Foley would of fell off he didn't play the Rock's sidekick in 99..Rock had fans paying for a damn Al Snow cage match...louder than any match AJ Styles or Shawn Michaels have ever been in.
Rock was very important to the era but I felt Austin was more so the face/backbone of the era.

Hell him feuding with Bret brought in the Attitude Era, his entire attitude in that feud when it came to being so defiant against Vince starting their long feud, beating HBK at Mania 15. Going into the Foley/Dude Love feud, the Taker feud, the Rock feud, etc literally the entire 99 Rumble match was about Austin vs. Vince.

Not to mention his 1996 King of the Ring speech. "Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass." Which literally was pushing out the old era(since he was speaking to Jake Roberts who he just beat, basically told dude to hang up his boots) and ushering in the new era.
 
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Not really..Shawn Michaels is very overrated while the Rock was basically the backbone of the Attitude Era.
As :duck: as that is, doesn't change the fact that

HBK was having revolutionary matches before The Rock was even getting trained.

You're gonna need a better position on this one.
 
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