I was able to sit down with NWA Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis this past Saturday while he was in Pittsburgh before successfully defending his title against Shawn Blanchard at KSWA Fan Fest this past Saturday.
The Champ touched upon several topics including making points to wrestle in places of historical significance, getting to spend Christmas in the UK with his family, wrestling three generations of the famous Knight family and goes into detail as to why an argument could be made for the “10 Pounds Of Gold” being the most genuine world championship in wrestling. Quotes are below as well as full audio of the interview (transcription and interview credit should go to @DominicDeAngelo at WrestleZone):
Nick Aldis on wrestling three generation of Paige’s family & the demand for title matches:
“I’ll be wrestling for the Knight family and I started in the business for them and obviously they’ve got a movie coming out. So it’s like cool timing to be going and doing something there. I’ll be wrestling Ricky Knight Jr. who he’s like the first third-generation wrestler of that family. I’ll have wrestled three generations of that family then.
For me, it’s 40 minutes from where I grew up so for me to be there and it be around Christmas it’ll be ideal. That’s the cool thing about being NWA Champion, the demand for title matches are so high that I can kind of go ‘I want to go here’ and someone will want to book a title match.”
Aldis talks about the NWA Championship not just being “old school” and why an argument could be made for it being the genuine world championship:
“Yeah it’s funny like I hear that a lot people say ‘oh, old school’ and throwback’ – it is, but it’s also new. You know? It’s also different. Like we’re not doing it because, it’s we’re not like a bunch of old Civil War reenactment guys sitting around pretending it’s the old days. We’re doing because it makes sense to do it like that.”
“It’s not a vanity project. We’re not doing it because we all wish for those days, it just works out that way because there are so many really good independent promotions so we can go well ‘if we can do it in Ring Of Honor’, like I just beat the Lucha Underground Champion, next week I’m wrestling Brian Cage at House of Hardcore. It’s like a pretty good argument to say this is the genuine world championship at this point, really. That’s what we’re doing because we want it to make a unifying symbol, standard of excellence. It’s like ‘well the NWA World Heavyweight Champion defends against anyone, anywhere, in any promotion.’ Who knows where it’s going to end up?”
Full audio of the interview is below:
NWA Pop-Up Event Coming In 2019, Nick Aldis vs Brian Cage Chronicled In New Ten Pounds Of Gold
