SO BAD YOU QUIT WATCHING TNA! NICK ALDIS TNA CHAMPION

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Alright it’s another episode of Was It Any Good. Nowadays Nick Aldis has finally made it to the WWE. Great news for him it took a long difficult journey. But did you know he had a brief TNA push where he was the heavyweight champion alongside Dixie carter! And let me tell you it was terrible!

[ShtgunJustce]

Magnus wasn't the problem. It was heel Dixie Carter. If they just let Magnus be his own guy, it would have worked much better.

[abarasch]

Being a horrible wrestler is one thing, but being a good wrestler and be badly booked is criminal

[BrolyLSSJ]

That Styles/Magnus match had so many run-ins, even Slapnuts and Vince Russo thought there were too many.

[jonedepth]

The booking was very weird. Suddenly Magnus turns heel and at the same time loses the ability to win a match without 8 other wrestlers. But I've honestly always loved Magnus/Nick Aldis promos. Very concise and to the point with elements of my personal fav mic worker of all-time, Nick Bockwinkel.

[GoldenChed]

Aldis is a class act. Loved his pre-pandemic NWA run. Superb stuff

[QueenNagaJacie]

Jesus, with all the Interference in his TNA World Title Matches, He’s like Jeff Jarrett 2.0.

God, no wonder why didn’t like this Title reign and I barely even watched it, honestly it’s good to know that NWA managed to make him a Legit Wrestler despite the issues they would later have and it’s nice to know that Nick Aldis has finally made it to WWE, here’s hoping a better run for him in WWE

[Justin-Thyme]

I remember this run. I stopped watching the show when the Aces went downhill, but at this point I was still reading show transcripts. I remember thinking that it was an interesting take on a heel champion: someone who didn't just need a henchman or two to keep the belt (a la HHH), but an entire army. It made sense, considering they were out of top guys (Sting and Styles being out of the door) and the new generation was still too green to take the torch. Having a transitional champion like that would keep the belt warm, and at the same time was bound to make the next champion a real badass, someone capable of defeating an entire army. Not to mention that a paper champion like that needn't be a big name, or a great wrestler: you could have a midcarder in that position.

But yeah, seeing the footage makes it clear that in my head it worked a lot better than it actually did in reality.

[justdirt]

The fact Magnus beat Sting, Joe, and Angle clean only for a month later needing 8 different guys to help him beat Sting is insane.
How would that ever have helped his image as champion. AJ isn't a dick, I'm sure he would've been fine letting Aldis get a clean win.
But no, Dixie had to be the star. Aldis just being a cocky champion who beat a bunch of legends wasn't enough.
He needed a faction, an evil boss character, interferences, and bad wins. Isn't this why so many people turned on Jarret a decade before this story.

[MarkEstratocaster]

The title is true. I started watching TNA on 2007 and sticked though every change the company went until these awful matches. My heart broke with the way they fired AJ and Sting and how the matches went.

[TeamTowers]

I think the most overlooked problem with this story is how dumb it makes the Dixie character look. She 's gloating about all her biggest stars are leaving.

Granted I recall everything heel Dixie did made no sense, so I guess this was par for the course.

[babayaga]

having him beat aj styles in his last tna match was a slap on the face

[brianban]

I never hated or blamed him i blame Dixie, Bischoff, Hogan and Russo for the down fall of TNA/Impact

[gpmradirgy]

Oh my word that title is perfect. I was disgusted when TNA allowed AJ Styles to leave (and the way they booked it) and I lasted less than a month after.

[rearviewracing]

I've started to notice that Abyss is kind of a run killer on the Big Show level. Not that Magnus' main event run needed any help in being killed when he appeared, but still

[Venemofthe]

Honestly i think what killed Magnus' run as world champion in TNA was the matches with Styles and Sting having so much help was absolutely ridiculous and made him super weak. They should have had him beat them both clean to establish himself as heel who can handle himself and only aligned with Dixie to get ahead or at least make it more evident earlier. His run could have been so much better than it was but the term paper champion was really bad for him and yes it couldnt be shed since the amount of help would make Tribal Chief blush.

He lost the title to Eric Young which was a bit weird in itself since Eric Young was nowhere near ready for that role either. Magnus deserved better in his World Title run cause he really could have established himself but they just decided not to

[TophDaGreat]

Yup. Around the same time NXT started blowing up and Lucha Underground some time after. AJ left and went to NJPW/ROH which lead to the exposure of NJPW interest in the states which then lead to the Elite and BTE blowing up by the later 2010s which ultimately lead to AEW. A lot of dominos began to fall but if you trace it back it goes back to his awful Aldis run. TNA was NEVER the same when AJ left. TNA was not the "alternative" anymore.

[jamalthewizardschair]

magnus is the ultimate proof that you can win the belt, beat all the established stars and still be misused

[ChrisManley]

This reign was exactly why I initially scoffed at the idea of Nick Aldis being the NWA World’s Heavyweight Champion

[unholyperiodza]

When Nick Aldis was booked the Jinder Mahal of TNA

[JoeChillton]

It's funny how both he and EC3 being stable friends represent Corgen's NWA as world champions at very different aspects. Magnus in this run was horrible and i blame Russo/Carter, while EC3 was very entertaining and commanded the screen as a hungry guy. You couldn't find more diametrically champions