AJ Styles *shakes head*

I honestly don't know who is booking AJ Styles, who has been booking or writing for him or who has come up with this prolonged character arc for him to be this low-confidence sadsack, but whoever it is needs to be dragged out into a back alley and shot. Okay, okay, maybe not that severe, but what I'm seeing every time I watch Impact with the one homegrown guy they have who could and should be at the top of the card is just painful to watch.

I know that not all wrestlers should have the same character, and it could be construed as refreshing that Styles is exhibiting some humility, but there's a fine line between "some humility" and "totally submarining your own character". This is the same guy who said he wasn't good enough to lead Team TNA and deferred to Triple J, Jeff Jarrett. Now, he comes out and says that he never quit in his life, and then proceeds to quit wrestling? And the only reason he pulls back is because Sting has to talk him off the ledge? I guess all that's left is for Mick Foley to exert dominion over him.

That being said, I'm glad that Sting is willing to pass the torch here, but I wish that they'd do it some other way, a way that puts both Styles and Sting over in the process throughout the process, not one that makes Styles look like a sniveling baby. He deserves better. Right now, he's the only guy who has all the tools to carry a company as the top star in TNA aside from Kurt Angle.

And add that to the fact that now, they're pushing Matt Morgan into a main event program against Angle, and it's enough to make your head spin. Granted, they're in the right direction. If Sting really does retire and pass the torch of the big-time main event face to AJ Styles, it's worth it. If they pull the collective triggers on Eric Young, Christopher Daniels, Hernandez and Samoa Joe to join Angle in the main event ranks, it'll be worth sitting through Morgan not follow through on clotheslines, telegraphing near falls and lunking his way through matches.

Let's hope they seize the opportunity instead of putting guys like Styles in situations where they seem like whiners instead of winners.