Steve Maclin would love to step in the ring with this TNA legend.
Steve Maclin has been building his own legacy during his time with TNA Wrestling, just like legends such as Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, and AJ Styles have. Maclin is always on a mission to be locked in a list with the very best that TNA has had in the past, present, and their future.
While speaking with Joey Karni on the Angle Podcast, Maclin revealed just who would be his dream opponent.
“For me, my dream match, I’ve been saying it would be AJ Styles. I’ve wanted to face former TNA people who have been in WWE and done the exact opposite, pretty much, where I was in WWE and then with the TNA, and they did the opposite. Why wouldn’t AJ be on the top of that list? He’s the ‘Phenomenal One.’ He’s AJ Styles. When you talk about TNA Wrestling, you first think of AJ Styles, yeah, and then you have Samoa Joe. It’s funny to me, I said in an interview not too long ago, Kurt Angle, you know of from TNA Wrestling, and it’s crazy to think he transcended both in WWE and in TNA. The fact that he says that he thinks his career in TNA was better still blows my mind, because I see that, but I also don’t see that, because you always think of both. So I would say if I had a dream match, it would be with AJ Styles.”
Maclin recently lost his TNA International Championship at TNA Victory Road to Frankie Kazarian.
AJ Styles has said he plans to retire from professional wrestling within the next year.
(h/t to Fightful for the quotes/transcriptions.)
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