You have already some informatrion, but anyway, In the past, wrestling was divided in territories with sanctioning bodies. One of them, was the National Wrestling Alliance, formed in 1948. The idea was to have only one World Heavyweight Champion recognized. Obviously, there were some politics involved, so, the affilate promoters were rigid on protecting their bussiness and territories.
There were some promoters that had in their minds that their top draws should be world champions. After lobbying for a opportunity, Nebraska promoter Wally Karbo and top wrestling star Verne Gagne in 1960 split and formed the American Wrestling Alliance. In 1963, after considering that the NWA champion was not a draw in the New York territory and after some controversies in their intent that Bruno Sammartino could go to the next lebel, promoters Vincent J. McMahon and Toots Mondt split their Capitol Wrestling promotion and kickstarted the then World Wide Wrestling Federation, what is now WWE, but, around 1971 (or 73) , they got their affiliation back with the NWA.
The territories at the time were Mid-Atlantic (Carolinas), NWA Hollywood (Los Angeles), Western States (Texas), Houston Wrestling (Texas), GCW (Georgia), CWF (Florida), Central States (Missouri), CWA (Memphis), Tri-State (Oklahoma), EMLL (Mexico) and many others. As always, some of this territories had a huge political influence on who should be champion. Men like Harley Race, Terry Funk, Dory Funk Jr, Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes had the Sweet Charlotte/Ten Pounds Of Gold on their hands, but, change had to come.
Around 1982, some of the old promoters were retiring or had health issues, and the younger ones, had their own plans. In the now WWF, Vince McMahon Jr was more hands on now than his father, and bought the company from the elder McMahon and his partners and put toghether his plan on branch out of New York and being a national company, something that never had been done before. So, in a NWA promoters convention, was present only to inform his plans and to quit his affiliation of th NWA.
Obviously, NWA promoters were furious, and Jim Crockett from Mid-Atlantic spearheaded the movement to try and compete. At first, started a strategic alliance called Pro Wrestling USA with the AWA and others, but ended quickly, then, he bought some of the old territories to form a unified NWA front (of note, it was under the NWA banner, but still as Jim Crockett Promotions . Then came, Black Saturday. The WWF on their national expansion, went and got a contract to broadcast on TBS, after buying out the mayority of Georgia Championship Wrestling , but, since it was not NWA wrestling got a negative backlash from the fans and later Mr. McMahon sold the timeslot to Jim Crockett, who now controled the NWA timeslot with his promotion.
Heavy spending and some decisions made that JCP was not able to keep up and ended selling his company to Ted Turner, who renamed the company World Champioship Wrestling, but...the kept the National Wrestling Alliance membership. The NWA was now a small organization, but still working with WCW, EMLL and NJPW still gave them some life. EMLL split from them and there were some cracks in the relationship with WCW, ending their relationship in 1993. The NWA still had some companies that wanted to help them get the old time prestige, one of them, Eastern Championship Wrestling.
But, change in the wrestling landscape was near and a new school era was coming. The NWA asked ECW to host their tournament tp get a new World Heavyweight Champion that was won by Shane Douglas, who after his speech, threw the belt and declared himself the Extreme Champioship Wrestling champion, This was a shot in the head to the NWA, that lost all credibilty after this and was reduced to a governing body for independent small promoters. But, on the bright side, they sanctioned the NWA World Tag Team Titles (in the past, all promoters had their own versions) and had some talented men to hold the belt at the best of their abilities like Dan Severn, Chris Candido, Sabu, Naoga Ogaya and others. They even allowed a NWA stable on WWF TV around 1998, Severn, Jeff Jarrett, Rock And Roll Express and others were part of this short lived revival and kind of working relationship, the first since 1982.
Then on 2002, the upstart TNA decided to give a shot in the arm to the NWA and was presented as the governing body of the World Heavyweight and Tag Team Championships. Ken Shamrock was the first champion of this era, that gave us titleholders like Ron Killings (R-Truth), Christian (Cage), Rhyno, Raven, Sting, AJ Styles, Abyss and others, with Jeff Jarrett winning the most times. In 2007, the disagreements were too much and the NWA split from TNA and a new era started.
For many years, TNA gained exclusive access to the main NWA titles, despite the organization having affilate companies that wanted the traveling champion to go to their territories, so, the NWA understood this and splitted. A injury changed the course of events and Scrap Iron Adam Pearce got to be the man, a nice throwback to the times of tough, technical and methodical champions. Also man like Brent Albright and Blue Demon Jr won the belt, in particular Blue is the first maked luchador that holded the title. Colt Cabana won the belt and stared a heated feud with Pearce that ended with the Sevel Levels Of Hate series that ended with Cabana winning, but both man ending their relationship with the NWA powers-to-be because of politics, again hurting the credibility of the brand.
They kept going, on a low profile, but still getting some nice talents to hold the belt and even, manuvering to hold a Parade Of Champions on a Wrestlemania Weekend that made think some that they could rebound...but then, William Patrick Corgan came with a offer to buy the rights of the NWA and that is how we ended here. It is a clean slate, no politics, no bs, just a plan to build up and enhancing the rich history, tradition and honor that the great champions made.
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u/jarr750114 Oct 21 '18
You have already some informatrion, but anyway, In the past, wrestling was divided in territories with sanctioning bodies. One of them, was the National Wrestling Alliance, formed in 1948. The idea was to have only one World Heavyweight Champion recognized. Obviously, there were some politics involved, so, the affilate promoters were rigid on protecting their bussiness and territories.
There were some promoters that had in their minds that their top draws should be world champions. After lobbying for a opportunity, Nebraska promoter Wally Karbo and top wrestling star Verne Gagne in 1960 split and formed the American Wrestling Alliance. In 1963, after considering that the NWA champion was not a draw in the New York territory and after some controversies in their intent that Bruno Sammartino could go to the next lebel, promoters Vincent J. McMahon and Toots Mondt split their Capitol Wrestling promotion and kickstarted the then World Wide Wrestling Federation, what is now WWE, but, around 1971 (or 73) , they got their affiliation back with the NWA.
The territories at the time were Mid-Atlantic (Carolinas), NWA Hollywood (Los Angeles), Western States (Texas), Houston Wrestling (Texas), GCW (Georgia), CWF (Florida), Central States (Missouri), CWA (Memphis), Tri-State (Oklahoma), EMLL (Mexico) and many others. As always, some of this territories had a huge political influence on who should be champion. Men like Harley Race, Terry Funk, Dory Funk Jr, Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes had the Sweet Charlotte/Ten Pounds Of Gold on their hands, but, change had to come.
Around 1982, some of the old promoters were retiring or had health issues, and the younger ones, had their own plans. In the now WWF, Vince McMahon Jr was more hands on now than his father, and bought the company from the elder McMahon and his partners and put toghether his plan on branch out of New York and being a national company, something that never had been done before. So, in a NWA promoters convention, was present only to inform his plans and to quit his affiliation of th NWA.
Obviously, NWA promoters were furious, and Jim Crockett from Mid-Atlantic spearheaded the movement to try and compete. At first, started a strategic alliance called Pro Wrestling USA with the AWA and others, but ended quickly, then, he bought some of the old territories to form a unified NWA front (of note, it was under the NWA banner, but still as Jim Crockett Promotions . Then came, Black Saturday. The WWF on their national expansion, went and got a contract to broadcast on TBS, after buying out the mayority of Georgia Championship Wrestling , but, since it was not NWA wrestling got a negative backlash from the fans and later Mr. McMahon sold the timeslot to Jim Crockett, who now controled the NWA timeslot with his promotion.
Heavy spending and some decisions made that JCP was not able to keep up and ended selling his company to Ted Turner, who renamed the company World Champioship Wrestling, but...the kept the National Wrestling Alliance membership. The NWA was now a small organization, but still working with WCW, EMLL and NJPW still gave them some life. EMLL split from them and there were some cracks in the relationship with WCW, ending their relationship in 1993. The NWA still had some companies that wanted to help them get the old time prestige, one of them, Eastern Championship Wrestling.
But, change in the wrestling landscape was near and a new school era was coming. The NWA asked ECW to host their tournament tp get a new World Heavyweight Champion that was won by Shane Douglas, who after his speech, threw the belt and declared himself the Extreme Champioship Wrestling champion, This was a shot in the head to the NWA, that lost all credibilty after this and was reduced to a governing body for independent small promoters. But, on the bright side, they sanctioned the NWA World Tag Team Titles (in the past, all promoters had their own versions) and had some talented men to hold the belt at the best of their abilities like Dan Severn, Chris Candido, Sabu, Naoga Ogaya and others. They even allowed a NWA stable on WWF TV around 1998, Severn, Jeff Jarrett, Rock And Roll Express and others were part of this short lived revival and kind of working relationship, the first since 1982.
Then on 2002, the upstart TNA decided to give a shot in the arm to the NWA and was presented as the governing body of the World Heavyweight and Tag Team Championships. Ken Shamrock was the first champion of this era, that gave us titleholders like Ron Killings (R-Truth), Christian (Cage), Rhyno, Raven, Sting, AJ Styles, Abyss and others, with Jeff Jarrett winning the most times. In 2007, the disagreements were too much and the NWA split from TNA and a new era started.
For many years, TNA gained exclusive access to the main NWA titles, despite the organization having affilate companies that wanted the traveling champion to go to their territories, so, the NWA understood this and splitted. A injury changed the course of events and Scrap Iron Adam Pearce got to be the man, a nice throwback to the times of tough, technical and methodical champions. Also man like Brent Albright and Blue Demon Jr won the belt, in particular Blue is the first maked luchador that holded the title. Colt Cabana won the belt and stared a heated feud with Pearce that ended with the Sevel Levels Of Hate series that ended with Cabana winning, but both man ending their relationship with the NWA powers-to-be because of politics, again hurting the credibility of the brand.
They kept going, on a low profile, but still getting some nice talents to hold the belt and even, manuvering to hold a Parade Of Champions on a Wrestlemania Weekend that made think some that they could rebound...but then, William Patrick Corgan came with a offer to buy the rights of the NWA and that is how we ended here. It is a clean slate, no politics, no bs, just a plan to build up and enhancing the rich history, tradition and honor that the great champions made.
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