Expecting never to see the man in the game again, this year's shoe was released with a retrospective of MJ's career. The sole of this new AJ listed some of Michael's greatest achievements from each year of his professional career. On March 19, 1995, after months of rumors, Michael ended his retirement and returned to the court.

It seemed as if Nike wasn't expecting to see Jordan back in the game so soon. They started to re-release older model's of the AJ series (I, II, III) and the X's soles featured an honor or an award from each year Michael had spent in the NBA.

Apart from these soles the design was no real surprise and was overall very plain. Hatfield picked up a few design elements from previous models and you could see some obvious signs of influence from the III's, the V's and the VI's.