Entrevista com o Phenomenal AJ Styles

Em vista a promoção do proximo ppv da TNA, O Lockdown 2008, assistimos a uma entrevista com o único e Phenomenal AJ Styles.
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Enter cage left: High-flying AJ Styles is key figure in ‘Lockdown’

If there’s a steel cage involved, pro wrestling fans know Allen Jones will be hanging off the sides or maybe even taking that scary plummet from the top. Jones - better known in the ring as AJ Styles - is one of the stars of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling expected to appear April 13 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell for the newly announced pay-per-view event “Lockdown 2008.
” In “Lockdown,” a steel cage is dropped over TNA’s six-sided ring and wrestlers must battle their way out. Jones is a crowd favorite for his signature acrobatic leaps, springboard moves off his opponents and gravity-defying flips from the top ropes. “Anyone who gets on that top rope and says they aren’t scared is lying,” Jones said. Of his high-flying maneuvers, he acknowledged, “It isn’t for everybody.” Jones, 30, was a football player and wrestler in his Georgia high school, but little in his background would seem to have prepared him for the acrobatics he displays in the ring. “I never wanted to be like anyone else,” he said. “I wanted to do my own thing and develop a style of my own.”
In the last few months, Jones has seen his on-camera persona become involved in a comedic story line that climaxed last week on the weekly Spike TV show “TNA Impact” with him accidentally wed to another star’s wife. The unexpected newlyweds have to deal with the small matter of the honeymoon Thursday night at 9 on Spike TV. Jones say he enjoys playing a lighter side. “It adds character to AJ Styles and I’m having a good time with it,” he said.
Some wrestlers - notably Hulk Hogan, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Stacy Keibler - have crossed over into mainstream films and TV, and Jones would seem a natural given his athleticism and charisma. He questions whether Hollywood would view his Southern accent as a hindrance.
Family life and his Christian faith are paramount to Jones. He and his wife, a schoolteacher, have two sons, ages 2 and 1.. The oldest likes playing with one of the many action figures of his father. “One of the goals I set for myself was that I wanted to have a dang action figure, and now I can’t believe there are so many of them. It’s fun to see old friends who say, ‘We saw your doll,’ and I correct them - it’s an action figure.”

An avid video gamer, Jones anticipates the release of a TNA game from Midway in June. “It’ll be more than mashing buttons,” he said. He and colleagues Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe, among others, performed their signature moves wearing body suits with motion-capture sensors for the game designers.
Jones has appeared many times before New England fans on the independent circuit and has high hopes for the April event. “I expect the rowdiest fans to show up,” he said. As for “Lockdown,” Jones said. “You never know what’s going to happen next. Somebody’s going to crawl on top of the cage and somebody is probably going to come off the top, and usually it’s me,” he said with a laugh.