Nick Aldis Opens Up About WWE Roadblocks

Former Smackdown GM Nick Aldis is ready for his match against Gunther at SummerSlam Night One.

In an interview with Chris Van Vliet, Aldis says as a general manager or a wrestler, he will always do his best with whatever role WWE needs him to fill.

“I’ve been very careful not to try to project my own expectations onto any of this…When the GM opportunity was presented to me it wasn’t be the GM for a little while and then we’ll figure out a way. No, it was, ‘ Do you want to be the GM of SmackDown? I said yes, I’ll be the best GM you’ve ever seen because you play the hand you get dealt. Some of this stuff with Gunther is real because he does represent the opportunities that I didn’t get. He did have people lobbying for him that I didn’t have. He didn’t have the TNA stink or different misconceptions about him that I had based on my relationship with this person or that person or anything like that but I’m not presenting myself as a victim. I had those things come early, too early,” he said.

Aldis explained more about Gunther’s advantages over him.

“Unlike Walter, I didn’t have guys like Regal pulling for me and saying, ‘Oh, this guy is fantastic. You want to give this guy a look.’ I had the opposite, actually. So I had to make something out of nothing with the NWA and the Ten Pounds of Gold…Thanks to DDP, bless him, who just said to me just call Hunter (HHH) directly. Stop trying to go through these gatekeepers and stuff. Just reach out to him directly. I thought that this could really backfire. But what do I have to lose? Turns out, actually, it turns out it worked. Did it work exactly how I would have wanted? Of course not. It turns out nothing happens for a while. Then Bruce (Prichard) calls me and goes, ‘You want to work behind the scenes?’ Hey, I’ll take what I can get. Maybe there’s enough sort of consternation that I’m not being used on television. So then they go, you can be the GM and now we are here,” he said.