A.J. Styles and Tomko

A.J. Styles and Tomko
Stable
Members	A.J. Styles Tomko
Name(s)	A.J. Styles and Tomko Christians Coalition Angle Alliance
Debut	April 5,2007

A.J. Styles and Tomko are a heel professional wrestling tag team in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where they are the current TNA World Tag Team Champions

History

Immediately following Destination X 2007, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage and Kurt Angle were informed by TNA management director Jim Cornette that they would each be captaining five-man teams to compete in a Lethal Lockdown cage match at the upcoming PPV Lockdown. In the upcoming weeks, Christian's Coalition officially formed under the name Team Cage (also including Abyss and Scott Steiner along with Styles and Tomko), while Team Angle went on to comprise of four recent rivals of the Team Cage members (Angle included) and Jeff Jarrett. At the match itself, Team Angle won when Jarrett hit Abyss with a thumbtack-loaded guitar and let Sting make the pin to become #1 contender to Cage's title.

On the June 14, 2007 episode of Impact, with Styles and Tomko's help, Cage defeated Abyss by disqualification after Abyss hit him with a steel chair. At Victory Road, Styles and Tomko lost to Sting and Abyss.

In addition, Sting and Abyss secured a contract for an Abyss vs. Christian match at Hard Justice 2007 with the help of the TNA debut of "The Punisher" Andrew Martin to counteract Tomko's role in the Coalition as an enforcer. At the iMPACT! prior to Hard Justice, Jim Cornette announced that Christian's Coalition would take on Abyss, Sting & Andrew Martin in a Doomsday Chamber of Blood match at Hard Justice in which the wrestler who scores the pinfall for his team in the match would receive the next title shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. This was a barbed wire six sides of steel cage match that could only be won by pinning an opponent after they've been busted open. At Hard Justice, Christian's Coalition was defeated, as Abyss pinned A.J. Styles for the win. After this, Christian and his Coalition would move into a feud with Samoa Joe over who the "real World Heavyweight Champion" is. At No Surrender, Styles and Tomko would win a 10 Team Gauntlet Match to become the number one contenders for the TNA World Tag Team Championship at Bound for Glory against the team of Adam "Pacman" Jones and Ron Killings. At Bound For Glory, Styles and Tomko defeated Killings and Pacman's substitute, Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed, for the TNA Tag Team Titles.

After retaining the tag titles against the Steiner Brothers at Genesis, Styles and Tomko came out during Christian's #1 contendership ladder match with Kaz right as Cage was about to win, despite his specific instructions not to. This distracted Cage, costing him the match. Immediately after, they would assist Kurt Angle in retaining his TNA World Heavyweight Championship, officially joining Kurt and his wife Karen in the Angle Alliance. Styles and Tomko from then on would attempt to be part of both the Angle Alliance and the Christian Coalition, despite the clashing egos and animosity between Christian and the Angles.

On the next Impact! Robert Roode and Cage joined Angle's group, though Christian's membership came on the condition that he became leader of all five of them. Surprisingly, Angle accepted with only momentary hesitation. The newly united stable first worked together for the main event later that evening, but after miscommunication cost them the match, Christian argued with and was attacked by Roode and Angle as Styles tried to hold them back and Tomko just walked away. Christian is clearly out of the Angle Alliance, but status from then on was unknown for Styles and Tomko as far as either the Alliance or the Coalition. On Impact the week after Cage was again attacked by Angle and Roode but this time an upset looking Styles just watched from the ring apron.

In the weeks since, Tomko has made it clear to Styles that they needed to choose sides, and while Styles has been indecisive to no end, Tomko firmly established his own foothold in the situation by leaving both the Coalition and the Alliance on the January 3 2008 edition of Impact, whereas AJ chose to join Angle at the Final Resolution PPV by helping Angle retain the TNA World Title against Cage.

In wrestling

• Double team finishing and signature moves
  • Tornado-Plex (Aided whiplash)

Championships and accomplishments

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  • TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time, current)

External links

• Tomko TNA profile
• A.J. Styles TNA profile