Exclusive: Nick Aldis discusses NWA, All In, Cody Rhodes, Toxicity in TNA & the 'Spot-Monkey vs Old-School' mentality

"It was always, these wrestling companies, with these toxic office situations, where you have this weird dynamic between office people in wrestling and the wrestlers" - Nick Aldis

Aldis revealed his thoughts on the Jeff Hardy Vs Magnus World Title match at TNA

I also wanted to know why Aldis was drawn to working with Billy Corgan and Dave Lagana for the NWA in the first place, given everything else he'd already done in his career.

Was it doing 'something different' that led to you joining the NWA, with the 'Ten Pounds of Gold' stuff and the documentary style product, obviously having been on TNA, was it this that attracted you to it?

Aldis: Yes, and it was also the idea of working with Dave and Billy, it was the idea of working on something from the ground up, and being able to be 100% the person that I imagined myself to be and prove that my ideas were right.

In TNA I had a moment there when I was wearing the suits, where I was doing that stuff, but it was always like, 'oh but I have to do it like this'. I hate to live in the past, but I'll never get over when they said that I was going to wrestle Jeff [Hardy] for the title in Orlando in December. And I said 'we're going to be in London in one month, and I'm a babyface, why can't we wait, we could have the biggest moment in the company history." It would've been the biggest reaction and we would've filled Wembley Arena, I guarantee it, even with that one month. If they had said he finally gets the chance to be the world champion at Wembley."

Aldis: "It was always, these wrestling companies, with these toxic office situations, where you have this weird dynamic between office people in wrestling and the wrestlers where it becomes this war, this silent cold war between them, it's like 'is that what he wants? I'll show him'. Don't we all want the same thing? We're in the business of making moments. We got together with this [ALL IN] and went 'whats the moment here? What's the big moment? What's the business? What did we get into this business to do?' We all knew what it was and we did, and we did it so well that there was 11,000 standing before we've even touched."

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Next: Nick Aldis talks about the 'old-school', or should I say 'classic' style match he and Cody put on, plus the merits of telling a story as opposed to just hitting all of your moves