Query: A.J. Styles is a professional wrestler.

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A.J. Styles <=SEP=> Allen Neal Jones ( born June 2 , 1977 ) , best known by the ring name A.J. Styles ( also stylized as AJ Styles ) , is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE performing on the SmackDown brand .   Styles , who has long been regarded as one of the world 's best professional wrestlers , is widely known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) from 2002 -- 2013 , where he was dubbed `` Mr. TNA '' . While in TNA , Styles held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship three times and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice . He was also the first X Division Champion , a title he held six times . Styles is the first professional wrestler ever to complete the TNA Triple Crown ( five times ) and the TNA Grand Slam ( two times ) . In 2010 , Styles became the first ever TNA-contracted wrestler to be ranked number one on the annual Pro Wrestling Illustrated ( PWI ) PWI 500 list . He simultaneously appeared in Ring of Honor ( ROH ) from 2002 -- 2006 , winning the ROH World Tag Team Championship ( with Amazing Red ) and becoming the first ROH Pure Champion . In 2014 , he signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling ( NJPW ) and won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match with the company , later becoming the leader of the Bullet Club . He has also competed extensively on the independent circuit , winning titles such as the PWG World Championship and the RPW British Heavyweight Championship , among many others .   Styles first appeared in WWE ( then the World Wrestling Federation , or the WWF ) in 2002 , but turned down a developmental deal he was offered with the company . He signed a multi-year contract with WWE fourteen years later in January 2016 , making his re-debut at that month 's Royal Rumble pay-per-view event . After appearing at his first WrestleMania that April , Styles headlined multiple pay-per-view events en route to winning his first WWE Championship at Backlash in September , holding the title up until 2017 's Royal Rumble in January . Also in 2016 , both PWI and Wrestling Observer Newsletter voted Styles as the `` Wrestler of the Year '' .

Ring of Honor <=SEP=> Ring of Honor ( ROH ) is an American professional wrestling promotion , founded in 2002 by RF Video owner Rob Feinstein . From 2004 to 2011 , the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group ( SBG ) , an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States .   ROH holds TV tapings , pay-per-view events , live events , and Internet pay-per-view events throughout the United States and Canada . It has also held shows in the United Kingdom and Japan . Annual shows include the Anniversary Show , Supercard of Honor ( held annually during WrestleMania weekend ) , Best in the World , Global Wars , Death Before Dishonor , Glory By Honor , and Final Battle ( the last show of the calendar year and ROH 's marquee event ) .   ROH records all of its shows and sells them on DVD through mail order via its online store , and the DVDs have developed a fanbase for the promotion in the United States and beyond . In 2009 , ROH signed a television deal with HDNet , which aired shows every week until 2011 . As of September 2011 , ROH 's flagship broadcast Ring of Honor Wrestling has been syndicated by parent company Sinclair Broadcasting , and airs on Sinclair owned stations across the country . ROH is also broadcast on Samurai TV in Japan , and is the third-largest professional wrestling promotion in the United States , behind WWE and after Impact Wrestling .   On June 22 , 2014 , ROH had its first live pay-per-view broadcast , Best in the World , from Nashville , Tennessee . It was followed-up on December 7 with their biggest show of the year Final Battle , from Terminal 5 in New York City . Their next pay-per-view aired March 1 , 2015 , which was their 13th Anniversary Show , from Las Vegas , Nevada .

Impact Wrestling X Division Championship <=SEP=> The Impact Wrestling X Division Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Impact Wrestling promotion . It debuted on June 19 , 2002 at the taping of then-TNA 's second weekly pay-per-view ( PPV ) event .   Like most professional wrestling championships , the title is won as a result of a scripted match . There have been 68 reigns among 30 wrestlers . The title has previously been known as the TNA X Division Championship , the NWA X Championship , the NWA -- TNA X Championship , and the NWA -- TNA X Division Championship .

PWG World Championship <=SEP=> The PWG World Championship is a professional wrestling world championship in the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla ( PWG ) professional wrestling promotion . It was first introduced in 2003 as the PWG Championship . The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches , in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition .

NWA World Heavyweight Championship <=SEP=> The National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the National Wrestling Alliance . Its lineage has been traced from the first World Heavyweight Championship , which traces its lineage to Georg Hackenschmidt 's 1905 title and Frank Gotch 's 1908 version . This effectively makes it the oldest surviving wrestling championship in the world . The title has been competed for in such well-known promotions as the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF , now WWE ) , New Japan Pro Wrestling ( NJPW ) , World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) , Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) , Ring Of Honor ( ROH ) , and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) .   With many territorial promotions appearing across the United States , the NWA was formed in 1948 as an overall governing wrestling body . Like franchises , these territories had the option of NWA membership . The promotion owners had to recognize the NWA heavyweight , junior heavyweight , and light heavyweight champions as world champions while retaining their own ownership and top champion . Ric Flair holds the record for the most reigns with nine .

WWE Championship <=SEP=> The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand . It is one of two world titles in the WWE , alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand as a result of the 2016 WWE draft . The title is currently held by Jinder Mahal , who is in his first reign .   The original world championship of the promotion , it was established by the then-World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ) on April 25 , 1963 as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship , following the promotion seceding from the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) . The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers . Since its inception , the title has undergone many name changes due to company name changes and title unifications . It is the oldest championship currently active in the WWE , and is presented as being the promotion 's most prestigious title , with many matches for the title having headlined pay-per-view events -- including WWE 's flagship event WrestleMania .   From its inception until 2001 , it was promoted as WWE 's sole primary championship . An additional world title , the WCW Championship , was added after the then-World Wrestling Federation 's purchase of World Championship Wrestling in early 2001 . The titles were later unified as the Undisputed Championship . After the first brand extension in 2002 and the promotion becoming the WWE , the championship became exclusive to SmackDown , and the World Heavyweight Championship was created for Raw . ECW became a third brand in 2006 , adding the ECW World Heavyweight Championship . Over the course of the first brand extension , the WWE Championship switched between brands , usually as a result of the annual draft . The ECW Championship was deactivated in 2010 , and the World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the WWE Championship in 2013 . The championship was again the sole world title of WWE until the reintroduction of the brand extension in 2016 .

New Japan Pro-Wrestling <=SEP=> , operating as and sometimes referred to as NJPW or simply New Japan , is a major Japanese puroresu or professional wrestling promotion founded in January 1972 by Antonio Inoki . In 2005 , Inoki sold the promotion to Yuke 's , who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012 . Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the Chairman of the promotion since September 2013 , while Katsuhiko Harada has served as the President of the promotion since February 2016 .   Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi , NJPW is the largest professional wrestling promotion in Japan and the second largest promotion in the world . It was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at various points in its history . NJPW has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world , including WWE , World Championship Wrestling , American Wrestling Association , World Class Championship Wrestling , Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , WAR , UWFi , Ring of Honor , Pride Fighting Championships , and Jersey All Pro Wrestling . NJPW 's biggest event is the January 4 Tokyo Dome Show , held each year since 1992 and currently promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom banner .