Styles has long been regarded as one of the world's best professional wrestlers. He has headlined numerous pay-per-view events internationally, including the respective premier events of WWE and TNA, WrestleMania and Bound for Glory. In 2010, he became the first TNA-contracted wrestler to be ranked number one on the annual "Pro Wrestling Illustrated" ("PWI") "PWI 500" list; after being voted Wrestler of the Year three consecutive times by the magazine between 2016 and 2018 (a feature only accomplished before by Ric Flair from 1984–1986), readers voted him Wrestler of the Decade in 2020. Styles is also a ten-time "Wrestling Observer Newsletter" award winner, including Wrestler of the Year in both 2015 and 2016; in 2017, the magazine inducted him into its Hall of Fame.