I am not quite sure why the NWA is splitting these two titles back up after unifying them, but that is what they are doing. Jax Dane had surgery, and it went well apparently, but he will be out the rest of the summer, so two tournaments are being held.
The National Title Tournament is July 11 in NWA SAW. It will be a one night tournament with 8 men. A Block consists of Arrick Andrews, Shawn Shultz, Chase Owens, and Ali Shabbaz. B Block appears to include Tyson Dean, Hammerjack, Andy Anderson, along with a surprise entrant to be announced at ring side. There are some good choices for National champ in this pack. Chase Owens would be great. He needs to take that next step and this could be it. Hammerjack was feuding with Dane, but would not make a great champ. Andrews had the scheduled shot at the title, but he too would be a weak champ. Tyson Dean would make a wonderful National champ. He is based out of ATL, but is currently one half the tag champs in SAW. He would be good. Ali Shabbaz has the talent, but is too young. The surprise entrant might be someone like Jeremiah Pluckett. That would be interesting. It does seem it needs to be a face as all other guys in that block are heels.
The North American Title is going to be held in different locations via elimination matches and then at some point in the future have the final match.
The first elimination match is at Smashmouth Wrestling and will be Keith Lee vs. James Claxton. I believe Claxton had a scheduled shot at Jax Done on June 6th, so this is in place of that.
The other three elimination matches are not yet announced although one will be at NWA Texoma (where Charlie Haas is now champ), Branded Outlaw (as it is announced as being in San Antonio), and Top of Texas (where the Logans are big).
It will be interesting to see where this goes and what happens to Dane when he returns. Does he go to reunify? Does he move onto the World Title? Interesting.
And of course, I do hope Jax Dane gets better soon!
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