Fresh off signing a new contract with TNA Wrestling, AJ Francis has plenty of goals he wants to accomplish there in 2025.
TNA Wrestling‘s AJ Francis recently spoke with Steven Muelhausen of Sports Illustrated. When asked what his goals are inside the squared circle in 2025, Francis said to win the TNA Tag Team Titles. The leader of First Cla$$ also took credit for most of Joe Hendry’s success in 2024 and stated if he wins the TNA World Title at Genesis that he’ll also take that title from Hendry in 2025.
“Tag team gold for Fir$t Clas$$,” AJ Francis said. “Me and KC deserve and should be the Tag Team Champions in TNA and be the flag bearers of the tag team division. All things pointing towards Joe Hendry maybe actually being able to finish the job for once and become the TNA World Champion. If Joe Hendry leads TNA as the world champion, let’s be serious, a year ago, Joe Hendry was not a TNA World Title contender. Nobody would have believed that.
AJ Francis is still the Cheez-It Champion
“One year ago, TNA would have Joe Hendry in a world title match, right? Now, he’s the hottest act in wrestling and he has me to thank for that. So if he happens to be lucky enough to have Nic Nemeth slip on a banana peel and Joe ends up as the TNA World Champion, I’m going to take the world title from Joe Hendry. I’m going to be the world champion. Because if Joe Hendry can do it, it can’t be that hard.
“When I was debuting at TNA, minding my own business, and debuting my music video, Joe Hendry comes out and interrupts and makes a song about me being the Cheez-It champion. In that song, he says, ‘You’ll never win the World Title, the X Division, or the tag but you’re the Cheez-It champion.
“Well, this year I’m going to win the Tag Team Titles, and when he wins the World title, I’m going to take it from him. And if Moose don’t act right, I’m going to take the X Division title from him, because it’s not I don’t like what Moose is doing. Moose keeps bullying these little boys, Moose keeps picking on these guys that are 175 pounds when they got two bricks in their pockets, right? He needs to fight a real man. Somebody his size. Moose knows that when we were in the NFL, he couldn’t block me then, and he knows that if we had a wrestling match, he can’t beat me now.
AJ Francis wants Joe Hendry to thank him for his success
“2025 will be a big year for me, for TNA, for everybody involved with TNA. It’s only getting bigger. It’s only getting better. I can’t wait to have the year that I expected a year ago. I told everybody coming into TNA that even though I came in as a pre-show promo guy, I said by the end of the year, I would be a main eventer. And I was right.
“I won the Digital Media Title this year. So, I’ve already been a champion in TNA this year. I’m telling you, I’m going to win the Tag Team Titles, and if Joe Hendry doesn’t act right after he wins that title if the first person he doesn’t thank for being TNA World Champion isn’t me, I’m going to take the TNA World title from Joe Hendry too.”
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