Dixie Carter Unveils 2014 TNA Slammiversary Poster, AJ Styles Wins IWGP World Title, More on Shaul Guerrero’s NXT Release

May 3, 2014

AJ Styles Wins IWGP World Title

According to Puroresu Spirit, former TNA star and current ROH star AJ Styles won the IWGP Heavyweight Title at today's 5/3 New Japan Wrestling Dontaku iPPV in Fokoka, Japan, defeating Kazuchika Okada to win the title.

Styles won after interference from his group, the Bullet Club and Yujiro Takahashi, who turned on fellow CHAOS stablemate, Okada, revealing himself as the newest member of the Bullet Club.

Styles is the first American wrestler to win the IWGP Heavyweight Title since Brock Lesnar won it in 2005.

More on Shaul Guerrero's NXT Release

We reported a couple weeks ago that Shaul Guerrero, known in NXT as Raquel Diaz, was being repackaged as Baron Corbin's valet, so it appears as if the decision to release her came at some point this past week, and was not something WWE has been planning for awhile, reports F4WOnline.com.

No word at this point as to whether or not Corbin will continue working the new biker gimmick.

Dixie Carter Unveils 2014 TNA Slammiversary Poster

TNA President Dixie Carter has posted the following on Twitter:

SNEAK PEEK at the #Slammiversary art. June 15th PPV at the University of Texas at Arlington! pic.twitter.com/U00GgyAfPA

— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) May 2, 2014

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.