Nick Aldis has one rule he thinks matters more than anything else taught in a wrestling school, and he thinks a lot of the business has drifted away from it.
Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Aldis was explaining what he and Gunther have in common when he laid it out.
“It’s the old, the number one rule anyone should be taught in any wrestling school anywhere. I firmly believe this: if you believe it, they believe it. Like, if you can’t get that, then get the f*** out. Like, nothing else is like, what are you doing?”
His objection is to how much of the presentation now nods to the audience.
“I’m so tired of the fourth wall stuff, like the kind of wink to the camera kind of. So look, every now and then a little bit of that, okay, fine, I got no problem with it. But it becomes a crutch.”
He argued the reason it spread is that it works with less effort.
“In my opinion, I think it’s become much more prevalent because it’s much easier to get a reaction by doing that than it is by fully committing to taking yourself seriously, taking the business seriously, and presenting yourself as a serious competitor and as a man. I think that’s much more difficult to do, actually.”
“So a lot more people tend to lean toward the whole like I’m not taking this seriously. Like we’re in on it together, we’re buddies.”
Aldis named nobody.
He said the shared standard is what connects him to his SummerSlam opponent, despite them being different wrestlers.
“I don’t see a ton of similarities in us necessarily stylistically, but maybe in our approach philosophically, we are definitely aligned.”
“He’s someone who, like I was, particularly during that ten pounds of gold run, is often described like a throwback, old school. And I think we both find that term a little humorous because we’re just like, I think we both just have high standards. Like we believe in presenting the business in a certain way.”
