page_title: A.J. Styles
section_title: Championships and accomplishments
hierarchical_section_title: A.J. Styles / Championships and accomplishments
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional wrestler A.J. Styles during a TNA Impact! taping with the TNA Television Championship.
context_page_description: Allen Neal Jones is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name AJ Styles He is overall a twenty-seven time world champion.
  Styles debuted in 1998 and competed for various independent promotions, before gaining his first mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling in 2001. From 2002 to 2014, he became widely known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, who described him as "the cornerstone of the company since the inception in 2002". Within that organization, Styles held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship three times and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice, and was the inaugural titleholder of the X Division Championship, which he won six times. Styles is the first professional wrestler to complete the TNA Triple Crown and the TNA Grand Slam. He simultaneously appeared in Ring of Honor from 2002–2006, where he became the inaugural ROH Pure Champion. In 2014, Styles signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling and won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his debut match, later winning it a second time and becoming the third leader of the Bullet Club stable.
context_section_description: All Access Wrestling
  AAW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  Ballpark Brawl
  Natural Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  Christian Wrestling Federation/Entertainment
  CWF/CWE Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  Family Wrestling Entertainment
  FWE Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  Independent Professional Wrestling (Florida)
  IPW Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
  Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
  IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  Ted Petty Invitational (2004)
  International Wrestling Cartel
  IWC Super Indies Championship (4 times)
  Independent Wrestling Revolution
  IWR King of The Indies Championship (1 time)
  Maximum Pro Wrestling
  Max-Pro Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
  Midwest Pro Wrestling
  MPW Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  New Japan Pro-Wrestling
  IWGP Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  New Korea Pro Wrestling Association
  NKPWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  NWA Wildside
  NWA Wildside Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  NWA Wildside Television Championship (3 times)
  NWA: Total Nonstop Action/Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  NWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
  NWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Jerry Lynn (1), Abyss (1) and Christopher Daniels (2)
  TNA Legends/Global/Television Championship (2 times)
  TNA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  TNA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Tomko (1) and Kurt Angle (1)
  TNA X Division Championship (6 times)
  First TNA Triple Crown Champion (5 times)
  First TNA Grand Slam Champion (2 times)
  Bound For Glory Series (2013)
  Gauntlet for the Gold (2007 – TNA World Tag Team Championship) – with Tomko
  Feud of the Year (2005) vs. Christopher Daniels
  Finisher of the Year (2003) Styles Clash
  Match of the Year (2006) with Christopher Daniels vs. Homicide and Hernandez at No Surrender on September 24, 2006
  Match of the Year (2009) vs. Sting at Bound for Glory on October 18, 2009
  Mr. TNA (2003–2005)
  Tag Team of the Year (2006) with Christopher Daniels
  X Division Star of the Year (2004)
  Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling 
  PPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tommy Suede
  Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
  PWG World Championship (1 time)
  Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  Match of the Year (2016) vs. John Cena at SummerSlam
  Tag Team of the Year (2006) with Christopher Daniels
  Most Popular Wrestler (2017, 2018)
  Wrestler of the Year (2016–2018)
  PWI Wrestler of the Decade (2011-2019)
  Ranked No. 1 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 2010
  Revolution Pro Wrestling
  RPW British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  Ring of Honor
  ROH Pure Championship (1 time)
  ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Amazing Red
  ROH Pure Wrestling Championship Tournament (2004)
  Rolling Stone
  WWE Wrestler of the Year (2016)
  World Wrestling All-Stars
  WWA International Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
  Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  Best Flying Wrestler (2005)
  Best Wrestling Maneuver (2003, 2015) Styles Clash
  Most Outstanding Wrestler (2014–2016)
  Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2014) vs. Minoru Suzuki on August 1
  Wrestler of the Year (2015, 2016)
  United States/Canada MVP (2018)
  Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2017)
  WWE
  WWE Championship (2 times)
  WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
  WWE United States Championship (3 times)
  WWE Intercontinental Championship Tournament (2020)
caption: Winning the TNA Legends/Television Championship (of which he is a two-time title holder) made him the first TNA Grand Slam Champion
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