Nic Nemeth wishes TNA had a team in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, but he understands why it does not.
The full field for the NXT tournament was announced on September 20, with teams from Raw, SmackDown, NXT and AAA. No TNA names made the cut, which did not go unnoticed given how much the two companies have worked together.
Nemeth, the TNA World Champion and one half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions with his brother Ryan Nemeth, was asked about it on Unlikely with Adrian Hernandez.
It doesn’t because myself, and my brother are comically busy at the moment. But it does, as a TNA wrestler, not being the tag champs, yeah, it does. Because there’s a relationship there.
He pointed to how the working relationship has helped both sides.
We’ve had some moments where we got a lot of NXT people who were brand new, gave them a shot, gave them some TV time, got those reps in. It would be nice to see it replicated. But, of course, it’s not always the time and place for it.
Nemeth credited the partnership with big moments for Leon Slater and Joe Hendry. He expects more.
So all of those moments can still happen, and they will when the time is right. It would be great to be represented out there. But also, I’m super busy right now, and I’m not interested in doing NXT as the world champion and tag team champion.
The Nemeths won the tag titles from The Hardys at Lockdown on August 23. Nic defends the world title against Slater at Bound for Glory on October 11.
