{"id":12985,"date":"2022-09-12T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12985"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:54:19","slug":"nick-aldis-says-he-turned-down-aew-offer-to-stay-with-nwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12985","title":{"rendered":"Nick Aldis Says He Turned Down AEW Offer To Stay With NWA"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Daily DDT, Nick Aldis revealed that he was given an offer to sign with AEW, but he turned it down because he didn\u2019t want to leave the NWA. Here are highlights:
\nOn getting an offer from AEW: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you the truth: I was made an offer by AEW. I counter-offered with, \u2018I\u2019d like to be able to do both.\u2019 I\u2019d like to work with them because obviously I have great admiration for Cody and the Bucks for what they\u2019ve been able to do. But I wasn\u2019t prepared to walk away from the two years of work I\u2019ve done with the NWA. And that was that. I left it open with, \u2018If you can find a way to keep doing this and do your show, I\u2019ll do your show.\u2019 They essentially wanted to offer me a contract and have me walk away from what I\u2019m doing here and I said that doesn\u2019t make any sense to me. Really, there\u2019s no reason to. It\u2019s just a hangover from the way things have always been done. Obviously, we hear this \u2018Change the World\u2019 phrase a lot, but that was my pitch to them. \u2018If you really want to change the world, why can\u2019t we do that?\u2019
\nBecause that really would be a change for one guy to work there but also come here. I\u2019m still on very good terms with Cody and the Bucks and I had a very nice conversation with Tony [Khan] and everyone was aware of it. Billy and Dave were aware of it. At the time, my stance was if I can do both, then I\u2019ll do it and I think that as it shakes out and everyone starts to realize the demand that will be on them with cable TV and stuff like that, those possibilities will be way more apparent in the next coming year for some guys.\u201d
\nOn returning to Impact in 2015: \u201cWell, the short stint, it was never a contract. It always just a negotiated thing where they\u2019d pay me this much and I\u2019d go and do it. I knew Jeff [Jarrett] was having problems and I knew it was a chance for him to get back on the saddle and I believed he deserved to run the company and take on that product. I did it out of loyalty to Jeff. I don\u2019t what the reality of the situation was, but at the time there were three things that factored into my decision to go back. One, the money was decent. Two, it was a favor to Jeff. And three, at the time it was implied it was a pathway for me to do the World of Sport show with ITV.
\nWe even got as far as me walking out and doing a press conference with ITV and World of Sport. We were supposed to be working together and I don\u2019t know how all of that changed and how all of that blew up, but honestly, I felt like I was used like a bargaining chip in that and they were also using that as a way to entice me and come on be on IMPACT as well. There was some dishonesty there, but I don\u2019t where it fell apart, hence why I never signed a contract and I was just kind of going show by show and it was an option for me to work with Alberto [El Patron]. I\u2019d always admired him and wanted to work with him and so that was the final thing before I said, \u201cOkay, cool, I\u2019ll come in and work with Alberto, that\u2019s fine.\u201d And that was that.\u201d
\nOn Eli Drake in NWA: \u201cI had a big hand in bringing him into the NWA. He had at least two other offers, one from one of the companies you mentioned, and one from Ring of Honor. Dave made his pitch and Dave asked me to call him and basically tell him my experience because Eli saw what we had done with me and said, \u201cI want that.\u201d Why wouldn\u2019t you? I called him and we had a good talk and I told him what I thought this could be for him long-term.
\nHe\u2019s a few years older than me, he\u2019s 36 and I\u2019m 32 and I\u2019ve always had one eye on the future post-wrestling and I\u2019m sure he kind of has that too because he\u2019s a creative guy, he\u2019s a smart guy with a good business brain and I\u2019m sure he wants to have an option or at least the opportunity to work in behind-the-scenes role going forward if he wants to do that and it\u2019s a seat at the table. I think we offer more than anyone else right now and we truly offer guys to tell their story the way they want it to be told. We have the least amount of cooks, the least amount of agendas, and I\u2019m a partner in NWA. I\u2019m not just the world champion. We\u2019re very judicious with who we bring in as far as contracts go. We want guys who look good, who can talk, who can go and deliver the big moments and I think that Eli is that guy.\u201dClick Here: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Daily DDT, Nick Aldis revealed that he was given an offer to sign with AEW, but he turned it down because he didn\u2019t want to leave the NWA. Here are highlights: On getting an offer from AEW: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you the truth: I was made an offer by AEW. I counter-offered … <\/p>\n

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