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

Nick Aldis prepares to defend the 'Ten Pounds of Gold' against Cody at ALL IN
Nick Aldis prepares to defend the 'Ten Pounds of Gold' against Cody at ALL IN

"Suddenly all of my bookings were coming back to me and asking "What do we have to do to make it a world title match" - Nick Aldis

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Flip Gordon and Cody were two of many wrestlers Aldis defended 'The Ten Pounds of Gold' against
Flip Gordon and Cody were two of many wrestlers Aldis defended 'The Ten Pounds of Gold' against

I was lucky enough to see a NWA Heavyweight Title match earlier in the year when Nick Aldis defended the belt against a British wrestler called Big Grizzly for a local promotion near me called Pro Wrestling Chaos.

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However, this is one of the many title matches Aldis competed in this year, as he's been on a 'Ten Pounds of Gold' crusade to defend the title against as many different opponents as possible.

Outside of ALL IN, you've done a great job of building up the NWA World Heavyweight Title, travelling around and defending in from city to city. I was lucky enough to see you in Bristol against Big Grizzly for the title at Pro Wrestling Chaos. But you were defending the title almost every day. What was that like?

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Aldis: "It was something that happened organically because we had a lot of bookings already, but when the NWA thing kicked off and we started doing 'Ten Pounds' all of this happened organically.

Billy had a plan for the NWA as a business but content-wise he sort of left that up to us for the most part. Obviously, he's the executive producer so nothing is done without him going 'okay' but the day to day credit belongs to Dave Lagana, and the style of content and the delivery and the, and this the point that's very important, the speed of which it's delivered. That's just an incredible work ethic.

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But what happened was immediately we started feeling this energy shift, like the vibrations were coming to us. Suddenly all of my bookings were coming back to me and asking "What do we have to do to make it a world title match, can we make it a world title match?" At first we were thinking do we try to limit this, do we make it a special attraction. Or do we just... and in the end if everybody wants it, why don't we give it to everybody. Aren't we trying to build this brand? Aren't we trying to build the title?

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It was also great practise for me to, there's a difference between doing a regular match and doing a world title match, and that's why we did that. We perfected the formula of the in-ring introduction, the in-ring instructions to the referee, the style of the entrances, just the overall presentation of it."


Next: Aldis discusses giving people a 'steak' as opposed to an 'All you can eat buffet' and his thoughts on people who say you can only like one style of wrestling

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