Nick Aldis won\u2019t allow his mind to go past Night 1 of SummerSlam and the opportunity he\u2019s waited his whole career for.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old British wrestler is feeling enough pressure to deliver in his first-ever WWE match after 22 years in the business. Aldis sees the opportunity as \u201cvalidation\u201d for the work he\u2019s put in. He will face Gunther, a former World Heavyweight champion who has retired John Cena, A.J. Styles and Goldberg, at U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN Unlimited).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t think beyond SummerSlam,\u201d Aldis said in a Zoom interview. \u201cI\u2019m not going to because ultimately I have to deliver at SummerSlam. Ask me again after SummerSlam. That\u2019s pretty much how I feel about it. I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m gonna feel after.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike those men, this won\u2019t be the end for Aldis, but he won\u2019t let himself think of it as a chance at a new beginning as the current SmackDown general manager makes his return to the ring after nearly three years since his last match.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Aldis won\u2019t allow his mind to go past Night 1 of SummerSlam and the opportunity he\u2019s waited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,127,52880,167669,44927,13368],"class_list":["post-419411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-summerslam","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}