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

"ALL IN was the biggest match of my career" - Nick Aldis

Nick Aldis continues to talk about ALL IN

Nick Aldis continues to talk about ALL IN and how big a moment it was for him, even going on to add that he believes it was the biggest match of his, and Cody's careers. He also touched on how the match literally came about with NWA and ROH also being involved.

Aldis: "That's what to me was so exciting about it was that obviously, it was the biggest match of my career, the biggest match of his career and that alone is saying something because there's a guy who was in the WWE, and he's had some tremendous success outside of WWE, I've had some of my own success, I've wrestled Sting, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe. I've been involved in the top angles as the champion in TNA, was the first British guy to do it which was very special at the time, but it was the biggest match of our career and we built it with a Youtube show, we built it with social media, we did it ourselves. We didn't have an agent, there's no creative team, it was old-school in every sense."

We got together and the stuff you saw in the build, in the 'Ten Pounds' where we discussed how we negotiated it. That was real. We did get together like two prizefighters and say 'okay, do you want this title match, okay this is what I want, this is what you want, this is what the NWA wants and this is what ROH wants because he's under contract with ROH, but ultimately to stay on the ALL IN gambler, dealer analogy, we held the cards because we wanted to have that match, and once you have two guys that want that match it shows. It was very easy to make it work.

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Next: Nick Aldis on not feeling like himself in TNA, how he hoped ALL IN would convince other wrestlers to take big risks and working with lesser experienced wrestlers