Nick Aldis is coming off another successful and hard-fought title win over his long-time friend Marty “The Villain” Scurll, but before his big championship match this past weekend, Aldis sat down with Sporting News and spoke about the G1 Supercard show.
The NWA World Heavyweight champion was present at the commentary table during the Triple Threat Ladder match for the ROH World title, which involved his opponent Scurll; however, Aldis explains why a NWA championship match wasn’t featured on the card, simply saying that they didn’t want it:
"They didn't want it," said Aldis.
"I'm not going to sit here and politically dance around and give some bullsh-t answer as to why that didn't happen. They didn't want it. We did offer them - I volunteered to wrestle Jushin Thunder Liger at that show for the title. I pitched that. Hell, if I had known that Muta was going to be at that show, I would have pitched me and Great Muta. They obviously decided that what they had to offer and the debuts they had in mind and the other things they had in mind, they obviously decided that those were more fitting of Madison Square Garden than the NWA Champion who had been the first one to defend the title there since Harley Race in 1980." Aldis expressed.
"But, hey, I'll get there and I'll do it on my terms and it will be a great night. The other possibility for that would have been Marty and I," said Aldis.
"I remember saying that it's pretty hard to replicate 15 years in the making; two kids who came from rural England in the middle of nowhere, a place where nobody famous comes from where we came from and to be able to headline at Madison Square Garden with the oldest and arguably the most historic and prestigious worlds championship in wrestling history would have been a pretty cool story. Marty wanted that, I can tell you. But all it does, like anything, nothing is given to you in this business so we just took it and said, 'Hey, let's show them what they should have done at Madison Square Garden in Concord, North Carolina'."
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full interview where Aldis talks about not getting noticed by the WWE, his plans for the NWA World Heavyweight title, and much more.