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"Everything you saw me do in TNA was half-assed, not because I was half-assed, but because it was a compromise of who I saw myself to be" - Nick Aldis
Aldis continued to talk about how he hoped ALL IN would be an inspiring event for those wrestlers out there who maybe aren't satisfied with the position they're in to take more risks. He uses his time in TNA as a reference for this.
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Aldis: "To me I hope that it inspires other guys in the business to kind of go and do similar things, but not just that, but to stand up for themselves and to hold on to their own vision of who they are.
Everything you saw me do in TNA was half-assed, not because I was half-assed, but because it was a compromise of who I saw myself to be and who someone else saw me to be, whether it be Vince Russo or whoever. You've seen so much of it in the current product on television, you see guys who you think, there's so much there, but you can just tell they're like 80% because there's always a compromise where twenty different people have got their fingers in this pie, it's too much, it's over-engineered.
We just showed everyone, we stripped it down to the bare bones and thought not only will this match mean something, but it will arguably be the most meaningful match of the year, if not the last five years.
"There's a lot of serendipity with the fact that it's Cody, he's the son of Dusty Rhodes, it's the NWA Title" - Nick Aldis
Aldis went on to add that one of the defining factors of what made the ALL IN match between him and Cody so special was Cody's lineage, and the fact that he was following in his father's footsteps
Aldis: "Yes there's a lot of serendipity with the fact that it's Cody, he's the son of Dusty Rhodes, it's the NWA title but all of that fed into what we were doing and it just, I've been around long enough, Cody and I have been in the business roughly the same amount of time so we both have a very good instinct at this point to know when something is working, when there's meat on this bone. The thing that's most exciting to me is how much more there is to come!
Next: Nick Aldis discusses his status with NWA, why he was drawn to the company and how there's enough room in wrestling for all types and styles
