Nick Aldis: I Was Very Fortunate To Be Around And Learn From The Quality Of That ’09 Roster TNA Had

Nick Aldis wants to see more of TNA in the WWE.

In recent months, a partnership has blossomed between the WWE and TNA, allowing TNA Knockout’s Champion Jordynne Grace to appear in the Royal Rumble this past year and compete against the NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez, also on that list, Joe Hendry and Frankie Kazarian were part of an NXT Battle Royal to determine a #1 contender for Trick Williams NXT Championship.

During an interview with Gorilla Position, Nick Aldis, the current GM of Friday Night SmackDown who is a former TNA World Heavyweight Champion was asked about his thoughts on the partnership between his former company and current.

“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.”

Aldis has also said that he would not be against competing in a WWE ring if everything made sense and with his recent problems with the likes of the Bloodline and Drew McIntyre, there is no ruling out an Aldis match one day.

h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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