History Wrestling / NickAldis

* ActionDad: Has a son, who was almost killed prematurely by Wrestling/JamesStorm, sending Magnus on the warpath.

* BattleCouple: For fun, he and Mickie went on an international tour that saw them defeat Crazy Sexy Mike and Blue Nikita in Germany, Ray Lyn and Dylan Bostic in the United States but lose to Wrestling/KenAnderson and Viper in the UK. It wasn't as fun when it was arranged for Mickie to get a small measure of revenge after she returned from pregnancy, and James Storm's attempted manslaughter on her, and ended up alongside Magnus with Storm having Serena Deeb in his corner.

* NobleDemon: Played straight, then gradually subverted. As NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, while a heel, he showed a healthy degree of respect for former champion Tim Storm. He had Storm accompany him at ringside for his title match at All In, and after defeating Storm in their rematch on the first episode of ''NWA Powerrr'' he still complimented him for his efforts and encouraged the audience to applaud him. Later, he's shaken hands with his competitors every time he wins in the ring, and has attempted to keep order and prevent run-ins during matches, though it's implied he might be behind a few run-ins of his own, using his henchwoman Kamille as plausible deniability. Things slowly deteriorated as Nick faced an increasing load of people questioning him, declaring themselves challengers for him, putting others forward as challengers for him, not to mention a series of miscues involving Kamille, all of which would grate on his patience. He even dismissed Kamille as his insurance policy, declaring he needed to form a real team. A few weeks later, when Tim Storm vocally supported Marty Scurll's attempt to insert himself into another NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title match, Aldis finally lost it, confronting Storm and attacking him with the aid of The Wildcards (his old friend Thom Latimer[[labelnote:*]]fka Bram[[/labelnote]] and Royce Isaacs) as well as Kamille... who it turned out had become Latimer's girlfriend. Their alliance was given the name Strictly Business, playing to the noble heel trope (but obviously not really keeping faithful to it).

* BadassBureaucrat: As ''Wrestling/SmackDown'' General Manager, he has stood up to a many a heel and unlike his ''Raw'' counterpart Adam Pierce, has taken ''absolutely no shit'' from The Bloodline.

* BadassBureaucrat: As ''SmackDown'' General Manager, he has stood up to a many a heel and unlike his ''Raw'' counterpart Adam Pierce, has taken ''absolutely no shit'' from The Bloodline.

* NiceHat: During the brief London Brawling run with [[Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness Desmond Wolfe]] in 2010 before Wolfe's career was upended by certain medical issues.

As usual, [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]] has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Aldis page]] about his life and career.

Aldis is a former one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, two-time TNA World Tag Team Champion (once with Doug Williams and once with Wrestling/SamoaJoe), one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion (with Williams) and one-time GHC Tag Team Champion (with Joe). He is also a one-time Ring Ka King World Heavyweight Champion in TNA's Indian sister promotion Ring Ka King, a one-time GFW Global Champion in Wrestling/JeffJarrett's Global Force Wrestling promotion, and a two-time and current [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] Worlds Heavyweight Champion.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Currently as part of the NWA, "The Gilded Warrior" by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVAbn7lJg08nhhMq37K6cWg Retro Shred]] ft Diego Sanjorge.

* ContinuityNod: During one of his National Treasure promos where he put over the NWA's return to prominence and highlighted all of the reigning champions on ''Powerr'' at the time, one of said champions was NWA National Champion James Storm. Aldis prefaced his praise for Storm as a champion with "Do not have to like him, but..." Yes, Aldis was trying to be a NobleDemon at the time and this could be considered an admonition of Storm's angry renegade free agent antics, but let's not forget Magnus and Storm were nearly always rivals in TNA. Fittingly, not too long afterward Storm would challenge Aldis for the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship.

* NobleDemon: Played straight, then gradually subverted. As NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, while a heel, he showed a healthy degree of respect for former champion Tim Storm. He had Storm accompany him at ringside for his title match at All In, and after defeating Storm in their rematch on the first episode of ''NWA Powerrr'' he still complimented him for his efforts and encouraged the audience to applaud him. Later, he's shaken hands with his competitors every time he wins in the ring, and has attempted to keep order and prevent run-ins during matches, though it's implied he might be behind a few run-ins of his own, using his henchwoman Kamille as plausible deniability. Things slowly deteriorated as Nick faced an increasing load of people questioning him, declaring themselves challengers for him, putting others forward as challengers for him, not to mention a series of miscues involving Kamille, all of which would grate on his patience. He even dismissed Kamille as his insurance policy, declaring he needed to form a real team. A few weeks later, when Tim Storm vocally supported Marty Scurll's attempt to insert himself into another NWA World's Heavyweight Title match, Aldis finally lost it, confronting Storm and attacking him with the aid of The Wildcards (his old friend Thom Latimer[[labelnote:*]]fka Bram[[/labelnote]] and Royce Isaacs) as well as Kamille... who it turned out had become Latimer's girlfriend. Their alliance was given the name Strictly Business, playing to the noble heel trope (but obviously not really keeping faithful to it).

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Established with Wrestling/MartyScurll, when the two went over their history and teased entering the Crockett Cup tag team tournament in 2019 only for Scurll to instead challenge Aldis for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Nicholas "Nick" Aldis (born 6 November 1986) is an English {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. He is best known for working in Wrestling/{{TNA}} under the ring name Magnus. He competed there for over eight years since 2008, slowly climbing up the card before becoming TNA's world champion in late 2014.[[labelnote:Trivia]] Interestingly, he was the other half of Wrestling/AJStyles's last match with TNA in a match to decide the undisputed TNA World Heavyweight Champion (Styles had left TNA in-storyline while champion and Magnus won the title in the interim; the match was needed when Styles's in-storyline leave became a real one). Afterwards, Styles would move on to Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, and later, Wrestling/{{WWE}}.[[/labelnote]] He departed the company in 2015, but was still featured peripherally thereafter due to competing under his real name in Wrestling/JeffJarrett's Global Force Wrestling promotion, eventually winning the GFW world title as well. His association with both ended in late 2017 after Anthem, a Canadian promotional group, made moves to purchase both promotions[[labelnote:Trivia]]Their attempt to purchase TNA caused severe legal wrangling between themselves and Dixie Carter, who wanted an investor but not an ownership partner, and Billy Corgan, who held a minority stake and was pushing for full control following alleged contractual breaches by Carter. Anthem eventually bought them both out and became sole owner. Negiations with Jarrett for GFW began swimmingly, and TNA programming began a period of unification, introducing GFW wrestlers and titles and holding title unification bouts with the idea of presenting Global Force as the "face" of TNA moving forward. However, Jarrett abruptly pulled out of the deal. Eventually, TNA was rebranding simply as Impact Wrestling.[[/labelnote]] and refused to offer him a long-term contract.

Aldis moved on to the indie scene, competing in House of Hardcore, Wrestling/{{CZW}} and other promotions, before being approached by Billy Corgan, who had by now become the owner of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance. Aldis thereafter became the centerpiece of Corgan's new NWA rebranding. He won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in early 2018 and would defend it across four continents and multiple promotions, including CZW, Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/RingOfHonor before losing the belt to Wrestling/CodyRhodes at All In in September of that year, albeit he would regain it weeks later.

Aldis is a former one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, two-time TNA World Tag Team Champion (once with Doug Williams and once with Wrestling/SamoaJoe), one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion (with Williams) and one-time GHC Tag Team Champion (with Joe). He is also a one-time Ring Ka King World Heavyweight Champion in TNA's Indian sister promotion Ring Ka King, a one-time GFW Global Champion in Wrestling/JeffJarrett's Global Force Wrestling promotion, and a two-time and current [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] World Heavyweight Champion.

* AGodAmI: Said that almost verbatim during an episode of NWA Powerrr when he addressed the crowd.

* NobleDemon: Played straight, then gradually subverted. As NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, while a heel, he showed a healthy degree of respect for former champion Tim Storm. He had Storm accompany him at ringside for his title match at All In, and after defeating Storm in their rematch on the first episode of ''NWA Powerrr'' he still complimented him for his efforts and encouraged the audience to applaud him. Later, he's shaken hands with his competitors every time he wins in the ring, and has attempted to keep order and prevent run-ins during matches, though it's implied he might be behind a few run-ins of his own, using his henchwoman Kamille as plausible deniability. Things slowly deteriorated as Nick faced an increasing load of people questioning him, declaring themselves challengers for him, putting others forward as challengers for him, not to mention a series of miscues involving Kamille, all of which would grate on his patience. He even dismissed Kamille as his insurance policy, declaring he needed to form a real team. A few weeks later, when Tim Storm vocally supported Marty Scurll's attempt to insert himself into another NWA World's Heavyweight Title match, Aldis finally lost it, confronting Storm and attacking him with the aid of The Wildcards (his old friend Thom Latimer[[labelnote:*]]fka Bram[[/labelnote]] and Royce Isaacs) as well as Kamille... who it turned out had become Latimer's girlfriend. Their alliance was given the name Strictly Business, playing to the noble heel trope (but obviously not really keeping faithful to it).

* ActionDad: Has a son.

Aldis is married to Wrestling/MickieJames as of December 31, 2015.

* {{Expy}}: Aldis' "National Treasure" gimmick is very much a homage to Wrestling/RicFlair circa 1985. He also channels a bit of Wrestling/HarleyRace and other NWA World Champions before him, as well as shades of former [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]] World Heavyweight Champion Nick Bockwinkel. The Flair comparison extends to the late '80s and '90s with the formation of Strictly Business, a stable constructed similarly to Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen.

[[caption-width-right:300:"In 1986, the kingdom of East Anglia saw the birth of their greatest son. An Anglo-Saxon warrior, destined to be a champion for the ages and a national treasure for all time."]]

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