Time travel to fun in the 16th century of the Maryland Renaissance Festival.

10 stages, food, pubs, shopping, jostling, Saturday, Sundays, and Labor Day Monday through October 24th.

For tickets visit MarylandRenossanceFestival.com.

Say big on admission through September 12th.

Coming up, the face that runs the place has returned home.

The Friday Night Smackdown, we chat with AJ Styles about his homecoming and much,

much more for the first time ever on ATB.

And it starts right now.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to After the Bell.

I am still Corey Graves and I could not be more stoked about my guest today because as long as I

have tried, we've been unable to match up time zones and time frames and get the man on the show.

But please kindly welcome the phenomenal AJ Styles.

As I was driving home this morning from dropping my kids off, it dawned on me exactly how long I

have known you. And more so just for the sake of it made me feel incredibly old.

I, for my graduation gift, my parents sent me to Dory Funke's Dojo for the week-long camp or whatever.

And that happened to be the week that TNA had their first tapings.

And I actually came to Wildside, you and I worked out in the ring for a little while and then

went to the very first TNA tapings. And I was like, that's going to be what, like 18 years ago, almost.

Just a long time ago, dude. Wildside was a 2000 or not Wildside, but TNA's first show was in 2002.

Yeah, that would have been it because that's a year I graduated.

So that's, yeah, that's 18 years.

It's insane. It's absolutely nuts. I think I talked to Smoa Joe about that too because I've

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