Nick Aldis spoke about Busted Open Radio (via Wrestling Inc) the bicep tear he suffered in November 2015 and more. Here are highlights.
Current position as NWA champion: “Part of the reason I’m sitting here now in this position is because I had to take a moment where I said, ‘you’ve either got to get out of this business, or you’ve got to slap yourself around a bit and hold yourself accountable.’
His bicep tear: “I tore my bicep at the end of 2015 and that was a really rough surgery and a really rough recovery and stuff like that. Obviously, I have always held a lot of my personal value in my physique and my fitness and stuff like that and there are pictures of me where I just look like death, I look horrible. I came back too soon because I had a kid to feed. I just looked at myself like, ‘what are you doing? I had no imagination, no ideas, I felt like my body of work because of Impact and TNA and the ill-will that they had earned themselves — which was completely out of my control — I felt like my body of work had been somewhat forgotten. Like the fact that I submitted Sting on a pay-per-view. I mean I’ve beat Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Samoa Joe, AJ Style, Bobby Roode — all these guys that have had all this success. I went, ‘what’s going on here?’ I felt like I’d been pushed to the side and I have, so what? Who cares? Tomorrow’s another day.”