NWA title vacated

[Stopspot]

The NWA championship is now vacant following the end of the Best of Seven Series between Adam Pearce and Colt Cabana. Cabana won the series but not the title. They announced before the bout that the NWA had ruled the bout was non-title. However, since Pearce lost, he announced he had promised to “leave the NWA” if he did not beat Cabana. Therefore, the NWA belt is now vacant.

The match is sadly the swan song for both men in NWA. The pair spent the several months trying to raise the awareness and credibility of the NWA title with their series of matches. Sadly, the entire landscape of the company changed recently along with its ownership.

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[Lacky]

I'm a credible champion. :tough:

 

[Rysenberg]

But I thought Frank the Jock had it? :sad:

 

[Testify]

This is some wierd shit going on in NWA. Seven matches and nobody won? C'mon. :hogan:

 

[Mizfit]

even though I said I was new to the indie scene before, on a different thread, I forgot to mention, I do like and watch nwa hollywood and have been watching this whole fued. since adam said he was leaving nwa, I wonder what is next for him? He is a great wrestler. I heard somewhere he is retiring due to a bad neck. but if that rumor, isn't true, I wonder if he will be wwe or tna bound?

 

[Farooq]

Sounds very odd. Colt should be the champion then, having to go through all those matches for nothing is unfair. Hope they get their shit together, stuff like that really shouldn't happen.

 

[Stopspot]

Thanks to PWMania.com reader Rhi Lockwood for sending this in:

In the week leading up to NWA Warzone14, the National Wrestling Alliance announced that they were unsanctioning the upcoming match between Colt Cabana & Adam Pearce at NWA Warzone, in what was to be the decider in the 7 Levels of Hate series.

As a long-time wrestling fan, I was disappointed and disrespected. This match had been months… years in the making, why was the Australian crowd suddenly unworthy of seeing the dramatic conclusion take place for the NWA Heavyweight Championship?

Luckily, on Saturday 27 October, at NWA Warzone, I was not disappointed in the slightest. With a strong mid-card consisting of matches such as Krackerjak v Mike Petersen for the NWA Warzone Australian Championship (in which the title changed hands) and Jack Bonza v Adam Brooks – just to name a few, by the time the steel cage was erected, the crowd was buzzing & excited.

Colt Cabana entered to an amazing reception from the Australian audiences, chants of ‘Colt Cabana’ filled the building, these quickly turned to boo’s when Scrap Daddy, Adam Pearce entered the ring. Once the door of the cage was closed, both men’s attention focused to each other.

The next twenty minutes, the crowd witnessed both men take each other to the extreme. When each tried to escape the cage (by the scaling the top), the other would drag the man back in. At one point, Colt Cabana had a perfect opportunity to escape, but instead, looked out to the crowd, stood on the top of the cage and landed a perfect splash on Adam Pearce inside the cage. Perfect, holy shit moment.

With both men, bloodied, tired and most definitely bruising, Colt finally applied his Billy Goat’s Curse, the crowd hollered at Adam Pearce to tap out. In an almost slow motion moment, he did. Cue-ing a cry of ‘Holy shit!’ amongst the crowd and as the belt & microphone was slid into the ring, Adam Pearce looked at the belt and bled, his blood had been pure NWA for the past few years & now… he had lost the 7 Levels of Hate series.

Pearce, with microphone in hand, began to talk. Because NWA unsanctioned the match last week, Pearce said as far as he was concerned, this was the 7th level, this (the title) is what they were fighting for and so despite the new management at NWA’s ruling (which he also said was disrespectful to the past of the NWA, the feud, the wrestlers & the fans that were in attendance at Warzone) Cabana was rightfully the undisputed NWA Champion.

Then Cabana went on to say that the NWA represented living in the past – rattling off previous champions – he said that he was all about moving forward and living in the present. He said he didn’t want the championship; the NWA could keep it because he didn’t want it.

The crowd, in stunned silence, then witnessed Pearce saying, that if Cabana didn’t want it – then neither did he. He said he was sticking to his word that at the end of the feud if he lost, then he was done with the NWA.

Both men left, with the belt in the middle of the ring inside the steel cage.

End of an era, and Melbourne, Australia witnessed history taking place after all.

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[Farooq]

Damn that sounded intense...wonder what's next for NWA after that....they really should get a new championship design though before moving forward...or at least trying to...

 

[Testify]

I really don't know what was the point of this? Awareness of NWA and controversy? I doubt it's working.

NWA is the father company of both WWE and TNA, the oldest company in the world, but that's the past. NWA isn't relevant for 20 yrs now (TNA 2002-2007 not included since it was all TNA).

 

[Stopspot]

Yeah A bit of what Colt says in his promo is true. NWA is so much backwards thinking and working backwards. It will never rise to prominence again

 

[Farooq]

I think NWA could rise again if it knew how to work properly. If instead they would stop working like the past, and start thinking of everything as of now of time it would be better. A new championship to finally put that one to rest, even more rookie wrestlers to build up your own rosters, more up to date style of rivalries, and if they aren't using it, then use media such as Twitter and Youtube. They also need heavy advertisements and such. I wouldn't want to see NWA go because of shit decisions in the back, it has great history and one of the oldest wrestling promotions, if not the oldest, that's still around and I wouldn't want to see it die. The owners and everybody need to start thinking about the future and present, not the past, that's one of the first steps from resurrecting it.

 

[Testify]

^I agree, but I think their budget is tight for that.

 

[Farooq]

Then start off with media, Twitter and Youtube is easy to advertise on, and ask the wrestlers to help too, if they had Colt Cabana he would be a great person to use with media. While they're working on that they just need to improve the booking, don't have to jump into the prices yet, and getting rookies is cheaper then getting experienced wrestlers. Plus I'm sure the advertisement can work, it's still NWA and that name alone can catch people's attentions quickly since it's an old company that I'm sure people thought was dead. They need to advertise locally when they can also, nothing extreme just signs and flyers all over the place for starters. With advertisements and improved booking it'll be no time where they could get a solid fan base if they keep up the good work, then it's only a matter of time when they can get more money to start changing belts, travel more, etc.