In a recent appearance on the Battleground podcast, Nick Aldis named the wrestlers he wants to face following his second return to Impact Wrestling at the Rebellion pay-per-view event last month. Aldis said,
“There’s a few guys who I’ve sort of flirted with in the past in different promotions and never got a chance to mix it up with. Before the pandemic, I was slated to face PCO at Ring of Honor and then that didn’t happen, so that one’s always been in the back of my mind. Eddie Edwards is another. Ace Austin is a guy who I’ve watched from afar and go, ‘That kid is crazy talented how athletic [he is],’ and I would really enjoy telling that story with him. I’m so happy to see the Motor City Machine Guns sort of back regularly and cooking with gas in the tag division.”
Aldis also praised Alex Shelley as “one of the most talented” and “unselfish” wrestlers in the industry.
In a recent appearance on “The Ten Count with Steve Fall” podcast, WWE alumni Zach Gowen reflected on his brief WWE run and recalled some of the opportunities that ultimately never manifested.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On the circumstances that prevented his appearance at a WrestleMania show: “That’s the pinnacle, that’s the premiere event in our industry. It would’ve been amazing to have a match at WrestleMania. They brought me in right after WrestleMania, and they fired me right before the next WrestleMania. So my window didn’t line up with WrestleMania.”
On what he would have liked to have accomplished with WWE had he been allowed the chance: “I want to make it clear that I have zero regrets in professional wrestling. Like, zero. Wrestling has given me more than I could’ve ever asked for or dreamed up, or even fantasized about when I stepped foot, pardon the pun, in a wrestling ring for the first time at wrestling school. I am so grateful for all the opportunities and the travel and the heroes that I’ve met and been able to rub shoulder to shoulder with outside the ring and inside the ring. Wrestling has given me more than I deserve, so there is absolutely no regrets. But yeah, I certainly do wish I had a WrestleMania moment for sure. I also wish they had made an official action figure of me. That never happened either.”
