Nic Nemeth Thinks He’s Done The Best Work Of His Career Since Turning 40

Nic Nemeth is the reigning TNA World Champion, and he says he’s done the best work of his career since he turned 40. The TNA star is currently 46 and is set to defend the title against Leon Slater at TNA Bound For Glory. But he’s also defended the title not only in TNA, but on occasional independent shows like for Adrenaline Championship Wrestling.

Nemeth spoke with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview ahead of Bound For Glory where he spoke about representing the company on the independent scene and more. He noted that he feels he’s in the midst of his best run over the last six years, which includes the entirety of his post-WWE run. You can see the highlights below:

On Defending the Title Outside of TNA:
“Once in a great while, if I know the person or the company or even Carlos was like, ‘Hey, do you want to do something special? Do it.’ ‘Hey, cool.’ But we’re very lucky at TNA with our front office, with our president, with anybody who’s been in, whether it’s D’Amore or Tommy or Hunter, you can text anybody any day or night and they won’t go, ‘What are you stupid?’ They won’t do that. They’ll just go, ‘Oh, that’s an interesting idea. What about this?’

“You have this back and forth, and when it comes to creative plans, match plans, ideas, they are there for it. So it’s pretty cool. It doesn’t happen often because I want it to be special and I want most of the TNA defenses to be getting a number for Impact or getting some butts in seats for Bound for Glory to say like, ‘Man, Leon’s friggin’ awesome,’ but getting the option to put that title up sometimes is pretty damn cool too, because there’s a responsibility that you have as champ.”

On Being a Representing TNA As World Champion:

“It’s not the old NWA days where you gotta put down a $50,000 deposit to carry the strap around. But it’s something along the lines, ‘I’m responsible.’ I feel like I’m the mature adult -— which makes no sense, because I’m not mature. But in the business to where you can trust me to do PR, to fly to another country, to put the title on the line, to fight in some other country that you never heard of and come out of there with that thing, because I got that shooter background just in case somebody wants to try me, I’m all ears.”

Continuing on, Nemeth said that he’s been doing the best work of his career since he turned 40.

On His Current Work As a Performer:

“I don’t think there’s anybody by the time I retire that will ever have the record that I have of not just showing up every day for 30 years but for stealing the show for 30 years straight. Whether you want to pretend that I was bad at wrestling because I lost all the time in WWE, the reason they paid me a shitload of money to be there and stay is because I’m awesome and I’ve only gotten better.

“I think 40 to 46 age-wise is where I’ve done my best work. Because every couple years I’ll look back and be like, ‘Man, I was pretty damn good, right?’ And I’ll look and go, ‘It’s a little cringy.’ But every every year or two I look back and go, ‘Okay I’ve gotten a little bit better, but I’m much better now,’ and I feel great. I look great. I back it up. The equity is there and having that responsibility as the TNA champ is absolutely awesome and I look forward to defending it more around the world whether TNA is there as a show or not.”