Nick Aldis comments on the WWE/TNA relationship.
The working partnership between TNA and NXT has dominated the wrestling news cycle for months at this point. It doesn't appear that things are slowing down, as many fans are expecting more talent crossovers in the coming weeks and months.
Nick Aldis, the current General Manager of SmackDown, has a storied history with TNA/IMPACT. Throughout his stints with the promotion, Aldis has won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, the TNA World Tag Team Championships, and the GFW Global Championship.
While speaking to the Gorilla Position podcast for a new interview, Aldis talked about the current relationship between TNA and WWE.
"I feel good about it. I don’t know much about it, truthfully, so I can’t speak too much to it. I thought Jordynne Grace put in a tremendous performance. She’s probably a lot of the driving force behind the whole relationship because once you have a talent like that, a promoter, which Hunter and Shawn are, they are looking at it like, ‘I don’t care how we have to get it done, I want that person on my TV show.’ A lot of times, that’s the genesis of a lot of working relationships. I certainly hope that there can be more between WWE and TNA. TNA has a rich history. I came into TNA arguably at the peak in 09. We were doing a couple million views on SpikeTV and were in hundreds of countries around the world and had a world class roster, which I think gets overlooked. The quality of that roster, I was very fortunate to be around that talent and learn from them through osmosis. I think it would be beneficial for WWE to be able to harness some of that history, particularly when you look at AJ Styles, Drew, LA Knight, to cover that part of a character’s history. What we’re looking at now, and as we’ve moved into the digital age, people want the full story. The idea of ‘everything you did before here doesn’t exist,’ has faded away because people say, ‘It’s more fun to know about other things,’ and planting seeds. The ability to dive into that and enhance stories would be beneficial and a major shift in WWE going forward."
Elsewhere in the interview, Aldis talked about possibly wrestling in WWE. Learn more about those comments by clicking here.
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