Nick Aldis Talks To Harley Race About The Prestige Of The NWA Championship

March 13, 2019

On the latest episode of NWA’s Ten Pounds Of Gold series, 8-times NWA Champion Harley Race sits down with current champion Nick Aldis. Aldis first asked Race what it’s like to see the title still having relevance today after 70 years.

It’s all great. No matter how you frame it, it comes out to where if you were lucky enough to have held it, it’s good. You spent two-thirds of your life trying to get in that position, and then, boom! You’re there and everything is rolling great.

Speaking to cameras after the interview, Aldis described the experience of being in the presence of a legend like Race, hearing him talk about the prestige of the NWA World Title. Aldis called Race the “ultimate authority” on the subject:

When he starts rolling about the business and about being World Champion and about the NWA, it’s like you just know you’re in the presense of the ultimate authority on the subject. But to get to sit with him as world champion and hear his take on things, it reinforces evrything I believe about being world champion.

During their conversation, Race also discussed a big difference between today’s era of wrestling and his own. That being that talent proved themselves inside the ring instead of talking smack 99 percent of the time:

In that era of wrestling, on virtually a worldwide basis, was wrestling in general. It was how you performed, wasn’t 99 percent garbage and talk. It was – you prove yourself in there. Pretty much just the wrestling world itself, I didn’t throw myself out and say “I am the one in line.” You just kind of took what was there and went the best way you could with it.