Smackdown Reaction: Aldis No Longer General Manager
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What happened in the SmackDown contract signing that changed Nick Aldis’s role?
What's going on, guys? This is World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry, and I will be breaking down on After Dark. Nick Aldis, no longer a GM, but he's a wrestler, and he'll be facing Gunther at SummerSlam. This is the Busted Open Podcast. We started the show in a way that... I like starting shows with signings. When you have a contract signing, that means that you're about to get something that you normally wouldn't get. It's not a traditional wrestling match where you have two combatants and they decide on, well, we're going to have a contract signing to get it done. No. When you have a contract signing, that means something abnormal happened. Something that's not always going to be decided on whether or not
You just make the choice that you disagree with somebody and you want to fight them. It's not like that. This was Gunther and Nick Aldis. Nick Aldis, as you know, for the last three years has been the general manager of SmackDown. And Nick has done an incredible job I didn't think that we would see it, but I always wanted it.
Why does Mark Henry think contract signings signal something abnormal or big?
Nick to come out of retirement. Somebody to go and do something dastardly to Nick and Nick to come back. And we got that. But it's how it was done. Nick did everything that he could do, y'all. For the last year, he's placated to Gunther's threats of legal action, physical violence. And Nick just played it like, hey, man, I'm a general manager. You do that, you're going to get fined. It's not going to be good for anybody. But as we had the last three or four weeks, Gunther attacked Nick Aldis and From the point that it happened, I told Andre, I said, Andre, this is not good for Gunther. And Andre said, well, what do you mean it's not good for Gunther? You mean that it's not going to be good for Nick Aldis?
I mean, he's the one that's not the wrestler. And I told Andre, I said, when Nick Aldis... was the NWA champion, Nick Aldis traveled the world taking on the best wrestlers on the planet that were not signed with major companies. I got a phone call. Hey, Mark Henry, you're retired. Ever thought about coming out of retirement? Come on, Billy. I'm not coming out of retirement. He was like, well... The NWA is calling, and I think that you would make a great challenger for Nick Aldis. And we talked about it, but I just couldn't do it, guys. Not being the guy that I used to be, I didn't want fans to see me. My back started bothering me. But more than it being about me, during that time, Nick Aldis would have gave anybody
everything they could handle. I watched the match with him and Pope. I watched the match where Nick not only took on and in the same night, you know, he had a, he had a match. He had a match early. Yeah. He had two matches in St. Louis. Two matches. championship matches because he got challenged and he said, well, why wait till next month? We can do it right now. You know what kind of shape you got to be in to have a 15-minute match and a 20-minute match in the same night? Nick Aldis is different, y'all. And I don't think that Gunther has done his homework. Gunther talked about Nick Aldis like he was just another guy that didn't make it at WWE. That's not the case. Nick Aldis knew his worth. And there was a time when Nick Aldis was doing just like Matt Cardona did.
When he was working the Indies, he was making just as much money as guys were making on top. So where's the loss? So tonight, Gunther's mouth overran his ass and they got a contract signed. And now it's about to happen. Nick Aldis, he let Gunther know, you keep talking and saying the same thing over and over and over. Who are you trying to convince? I hope you're not trying to convince me. I know what's up. To paraphrase.
How did Nick Aldis’s history as NWA champion shape expectations for his return?
And Gunther took Nick Aldis very lightly. Normally, you see Gunther come to the ring. He's got a jacket on. He's got a buttoned shirt. Even if he doesn't have a tie, he's wearing slacks with really nice Italian leather shoes. Sometimes no socks, which I find weird. But nonetheless, not tonight. Gunther came to the ring so lackadaisical. He came to the ring with a t-shirt on. Designer, might I add, but still a t-shirt.
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