(6/11) Stu's Catch Up With Matches Series: Nick Aldis vs Aron Stevens (Season 1 Episode 6)
- joshandstupodcast
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min read
This is a great time to be a pro wrestling fan, with basically having wrestling 5 days a week. From RAW on Mondays, Impact Wrestling on Tuesday, AEW Dynamite & NXT on Wednesday, NXT UK on Thursday, and Smackdown on Friday, and that shows we know off.
WIth NJPW having a weekly slot now, and up and coming promotions like MLW getting TV time, it so hard to kept track of it all. So with this new blog series, I'm going to catch up with Ten matches I'll be told to check out or I'll really want to watch just couldn't find the time in the last month.
(So every Monday at 1 pm (UK Time) these reviews will be up)
Next, I look at the emotional NWA World Title match with Nick Aldis faced off against Aron Stevens at NWA Back For The Attack PPV.
Singles Match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship Nick Aldis vs Aron Stevens NWA Back For The Attack • 21st March 2021
So National Wrestling Alliance has had a resurgence as of late, ever since Billy Corgan brought the promotion back in 2017. With even a new weekly show called ‘NWA Power’, so all eyes are on the product at the moment. But this match had extra importance, with the death of ‘The Question Mark’ Joseph Hudson, and Aron Stevens dedicating the match to his close friend.
The match as a whole wasn't a fast pace or overabundance of high spots type of match, but it more than made up for it with it being highly emotional and intense. It started off as a basic wrestling match, with a lot of head locks and arm drags, with Nick Aldis playing a few mind games with Stevens, with the line ‘Get Your Head in the Game’.
But everyone was behind Aron Stevens, with every time he got back into the match you really wanted him to win. But both men over the course of the match were starting to run out of gas, with a lot of work on body parts, with Aron Stevens working on Aldis's arm, with not just one but two crossfaces submissions on Nick Aldis, which he was just able to get to the ropes.
Also, Nick Aldis working on Adron Stevens back, after a missed moonsalt attempt by Stevens, even locking in the Texas Cloverleaf submission on him, but Stevens was able to get to the ropes. But the match ended, when Stevens had a crossface submission locked in on Aldis, but Aldis was able to counter and get the roll-up to get the win.
Overall, a real blast from the past type of match, with it having that feeling like we were watching a wrestling match from the 1970s or 80s, which I think was their intent. But if you want to get into NWA, and you like good story-based matches, then check this match out.
Verdict: 7 out of 10
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Stuart Irvine
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