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Jim Crockett Promotions was at one point the biggest, and undisputed best promotion under the NWA umbrella, but tragedy struck in 1975 when a plane carrying Jim Crockett, Johnny Valentine, "Mr. Wrestling I" Tim Woods, Bob Bruggers, and a young prospect in Ric Flair crashed. Flair broke his back in three places and was told that he could never compete again or risk paralysis. Crockett, feeling sympathetic about how Flair's career had been cut short hired him as apart of the booking team.
As time went on, and with pressure from the ever expanding WWF to go bigger, Crockett did just that as he put all of his money into the company, and then some. Crockett however wasn't much of a business man when it came to expanding, and in 1984 he sold the company to Ric Flair for an undisclosed sum and Flair renamed it to Ric Flair Promotions. Flair became head booker and gave a young man by the name of Sting the NWA World Heavyweight Title, and started to build his company around him. The push of Sting was a complete success, and he has since gone on to reach iconic status within not only the NWA, but the entire world of professional wrestling.
RFP carried on even when the NWA Board made the crucial decision to remove the company's exclusive rights to the NWA World Heavyweight Title, and bringing it to Canada. The promotion builds around the technical skill of a wrestler rather than the character like Vince McMahon's Titan Wrestling Entertainment. But don't be fooled into thinking character isn't important, as can be told by the reigning Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion, and top draw 'Lion Heart' Chris Jericho.
The charismatic Canadian proved that he can do what the legendary Sting did the past decade and carry the promotion on his shoulders, as a matter of fact it was Jericho who "forced" 'The Man They Call' Sting to pass the torch to him on the biggest drawing show for the company since Flair took the reigns. Although Sting remains a constant threat to the title, 'Lion Heart' has new challengers coming at him left, right and center with 'Kamikaze' Ken Anderson in particular looking to be the number one challenger for Jericho's title.
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Call Vince McMahon what you will, liar, politician, tyrant, and even failure. One thing no one can deny however is the fact that the man is above all else, a gambler. WrestleMania may have been a vision well ahead of its time, but there's no doubt that McMahon believed in the concept behind it, after all he had invested all of his fortune into the event. As the old saying goes, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, McMahon did just that in 1993, eight years after the WrestleMania failure, when he established Titan Wrestling Entertainment in the WWF's old stomping grounds.
His crop of top talent included a major coup in former NWA World Champion 'British Bulldog' Davey Boy Smith, Curt Hennig, who would be repackaged as the loudmouthed 'Mr. Perfect,' Sgt. Slaughter, 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and perhaps the most controversial signing of all, Jim Helwig. As the Dingo Warrior, Helwig had a history of being controversial, if not clinically insane all across the other promotions in the NWA leading to no less than blacklist status. In Helwig however, McMahon saw a million dollar body, and the face of his promotion. Repackaged as the energetic, flamboyant 'Ultimate Warrior,' he would topple Sgt. Slaughter in a tournament final to become the inaugural TWE Heavyweight Champion.
Using 'Sports Entertainment' in small doses over the next decade McMahon's promotion grew, and fans eventually grew accustomed to the 'Soap Opera' feeling of the promotion. This was in direct contrast to the rest of the NWA, who still promote wrestling above all else. In recent years TWE has seen its share of controversy. With the formation of GLAM!, it was a guarantee that the NWA World Women's Championship would go to that promotion as the top title, but McMahon instead opted to purchase the rights to the title from the NWA for ten years. The smarks went berserk at the thoughts of many of TWE's untrained 'Divas' holding what is supposed to be the highest honor in all of Women's Wrestling. McMahon's actions didn't stop at titles, earlier in the year he signed a promising young upstart by the name of Chris Mordetzky away from Championship Wrestling UNLEASHED. A little background on Mordetzky, he was groomed by CWU owner Paul Orndorff as his greatest student and Orndorff even handed down the moniker of "Mr. Wonderful" to Mordetzky. How did Mordetzky show his gratitude? He left the company as Heavyweight Champion, signing with TWE and taking the 'Mr. Wonderful' name with him as well as Orndorff's famed piledriver finishing move.
Today the promotion headlined by such top names as Jean Paul Levesque, the giant Paul 'The Great Wight', 'Heart Break Kid' Shawn Michaels and 'The Cuban Stud' Scott Hall. In addition to that, there are plenty of young and hungry stars fleshing out the line up including 'Mr. Wonderful' Chris Mordetzky, 'Macho' Matt Morgan (who is on a collision course with former NWA World Champion Randy Savage, who is the commentator for TWE), and Dave Batista.
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Having been in existence nearly as long as the National Wrestling Alliance itself, Calgary Stampede is one of the oldest and most prestigious promotions in the entire world. Ran by the legendary Hart family, Calgary boasted some of the greatest technical wrestlers the sport had ever seen, and still does. In the eighties, Bad News Allen, The Hart Foundation and the British Bulldogs all reached great levels of success but it wasn't until the 1990's that Calgary truly shined as the franchise promotion of the NWA, producing four NWA World Champions in Bret Hart, Davey Boy Smith, Curt Hennig and Owen Hart.
While Bret shined as the promotion's biggest star of the nineties, his focus shifted following the death of his father in 2003 when he sought control of the day to day operations of the promotion behind scenes. It was around this time that Chris Benoit, a Stampede original accomplished something no man had ever done before when he defeated Kurt Angle for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship; he became the first man to hold all three World Titles in the men's division, a accomplishment known as the Triple Crown.
Recently, with the signing of former NWA World champion Kurt Angle, Bret Hart made his return to active competition in a sign that things look to be heading for a show down between two of the most accomplished names in NWA history.
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1998 saw Sabu (Terry Brunk) return to his uncle, The Original Sheik's stomping grounds in Detroit to open up NWA: Motor City and left right where Sheik left off. NWA:MC's debut show saw Sabu versus Rob Van Dam in the main event where the crowd was treated to chairs, tables, blood and barred wire that was much to the dismay of the NWA Board of Directors.
The Insane Clown Posse arrived in the Motor City in the summer of 1999 which would be dubbed "The Summer of Violence" where Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J would cause terror on a weekly basis beating down and bloodying their opponents each week and by the end of August they defeated Sabu in a "Echoside Death Match" to become Co-Holders of the Motor City Heavyweight Title. The Juggalo influence on Motor City saw their popularity reach huge heights with many ICP music fans begging to show up in numbers to shows.
In 2004, Motor City gained a huge acquisition in the former NWA World Tag Team and ECW Heavyweight Title holder Raven after a fall out with ECW Owner Paul E. Heyman. Raven would go to dark places citing Paul E. Heyman kicking him out of ECW was horribly reminiscent of his childhood memories when his father made him leave home. Raven said the best revenge would be capturing the Motor City Heavyweight Title to ultimately show that even the Raven has his day.
In recent years Motor City has been criticized for not being up the times and "still being stuck in 1998 instead of 2008" but the rise of the Murder City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) as well as Monty Brown are two reasons to keep an eye out for the renegade promotion.
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iDOM, or iDOMINATION is a fantasy mod first developed in 2008 for use with Adam Ryland's Extreme Warfare Wrestling 4.2 professional wrestling simulator. Taking its concept from Ryland's original NWA Domination scenario, iDOM takes place in an alternate universe where the National Wrestling Alliance is the most powerful governing body in professional wrestling. In this universe, Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation never achieved success in becoming a national promotion, and instead went bankrupt following a disastrous WrestleMania debut. This lead to the ultimate domination of the NWA, who recognize four "world" caliber championships, numerous regional championships, and many member promotions today.
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From its inception in 2004, Jim Kettner's NWA Athletic Arts (formerly East Coast Wrestling Association) has had a unique place among the National Wrestling Alliance. It was the place that gave career long journeymen who had been constantly overlooked and underutilized a place to finally shine. Stars such as Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Shane Helms and Shannon Moore, who had been deemed as "too small" to become big stars for any organization, received exposure in the small Carolina based promotion and are now some of the top ranked Junior Heavyweights in all of the National Wrestling Alliance. Athletic Arts was also the place that saw the emergence of new stars, eager and ready to prove themselves to a newer type of fanbase.
Today, many of the the top stars in the Junior Heavyweight Divisions all across the NWA at least passed through Athletic Arts. Though only Arch Kincaid, and Kevin Martel, the promotion's champion remain from the inaugural class, there is an abundance of fresh new stars ready to stake their claim at fame, with just one big win away from NWA title contention. 'The OC Boy' Aden Chambers, and Chase Del Monte are simply two of the newer stars of the exciting brand of wrestling that is Athletic Arts, driving home their motto of "Adapt, Adopt and Improve."
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The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is the largest governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA championships, including four championships of "World Title" stature. The NWA has been in operation since 1948, and is the sole governing body for most of professional wrestling. It operates as a talent and brand name franchiser for the inter-regional "territory" system.
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Death of the WWF, Revision of the Territory System
It was of course, Vince McMahon Jr that shattered the traditional territorial system, and exposed the plot holes of it. NWA promoters were furious when McMahon began syndicating WWF television shows to television stations across the United States, in areas outside of the WWF's traditional north-eastern stronghold. McMahon also began selling videotapes of WWF events outside the Northeast through his Coliseum Video distribution company. He effectively broke the unwritten law of regionalism around which the entire industry had been based. To make matters worse, McMahon used the income generated by advertising, television deals, and tape sales to poach talent from rival promoters.
According to several reports, the elder McMahon warned his son, "Vinny, what are you doing? You'll wind up at the bottom of a river." In spite of such warnings, the younger McMahon had an even bolder ambition: the WWF would tour nationally. However, such a venture required huge capital investment; one that placed the WWF on the verge of financial collapse. The future of not just McMahon's experiment, but also the WWF, the NWA, and the whole industry came down to the success or failure of McMahon's groundbreaking concept, WrestleMania. WrestleMania was a pay-per-view extravaganza (in some areas; most areas of the country saw WrestleMania available on closed-circuit television) that McMahon marketed as being the Super Bowl of professional wrestling.
The concept of a wrestling super card was nothing new in North America; the NWA had been running Starrcade a few years prior to WrestleMania, and even the elder McMahon had marketed large Shea Stadium cards viewable in closed-circuit locations. However, McMahon wanted to take the WWF to the mainstream, targeting the public who were not regular wrestling fans. He spent loads of money on celebrities such as Mr. T and Cyndi Lauper to participate in the event.
WrestleMania, held in 1985, was a resounding failure. As Gregory Thatus put it in his book, "The Fall of the World Wrestling Federation,"
"WrestleMania was a colossal failure, and crippled the World Wrestling Federation in such a way that it was termed 'Black Sunday' within the promotion, and led to the eventual bankruptcy of Vincent Kennedy McMahon Jr. within months, paving the way for the National Wrestling Alliance's domination."
Sports Entertainment was dead at birth. Within months the WWF ceased operations, and in its wake the NWA launched a new campaign to revamp their Territorial System. Cable Television had changed the business in a way that it could not go back to the way things once were, each promotion while separate had to add to the NWA as a whole. In 1985 Ted DiBiase defeated Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, and in turn the NWA gave control of the NWA Championship to Ric Flair Promotions.
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