NWA this week

We are into February and the NWA rolls on toward its Parade of Champions. 

NWA Texoma has a good show lined up this Friday night with NWA Women's champion Amber O'Neal defending against Nikki Knight.  Also NWA North American Champ Tim Storm is taking on Foxx, who was in the tournament late last year, so he has to be considered a top contender for the North American Title.

NWA Top of Texas took an interesting turn as the feud between the Logans and the Dirt Road Dynasty just got uglier.  Rex Logan defeated Jake Logan for the Panhandle championship, and all seemed well between the brothers.  Jake even returned to aid Rex when Rex was jumped by the Dirt Road Dynasty.  But he turned on Rex and dropped him onto chairs, smacked him with chairs and generally beat Rex into submission.  Where they go from here Saturday night should be interesting.

NWA Circle City Wrestling had their monthly event last week and it saw NWA Continental Champ Badd Blood win a three way match that included NWA Pacific Northwest Champ Buddy Highway.  Badd Blood vacated the NWA Pacific Northwest title after having held it for over a year.  Buddy Highway had also just been at NWA Supreme to face NWA Mid American champ, Johnny Justice.  NWA Blue Collar continues to have a nation wide impact.  By the way Abyss and Road Warrior Animal were at that show and will tag team in April.

NWA also has a new partner in NWA Northeast.  They kick off March 26th and will crown the NWA Northeast Champion at that time in a match between Grey Wolf and Oxx Hogg.

Another rather new NWA partner, NWA Southeast has their monthly event on the 27th where NWA Southeast champ Tony Storm will defend against Effy Gibbs managed by Missy Hyatt.  There is a name from the past you don't hear much about. 

It appears Tommy Too Much retained on the 13th of this month in a three way match that included Tyson Dean.  Now he will defend on the 27th against the other person in that match, Victor Romanoff.  The main event however will be the crowning of NWA Georgia Tag Team champs as Iceberg and Bill T. Butcher go against the Faces of Death.  I expect the Faces of Death to walk away with the titles. 

NWA Smoky Mountain is having a vote to see who gets the next shot at NWA Southeastern Title held by Jason Kincaid.  Kincaid survived by DQ over Vince Brett at this months show.  Go on over and vote.  I voted for Chase Owens for the record.

February 26th will be Vendetta Pro Wrestling's Februtality (the best name for the month), and it has a big time main event.  Little Cholo, who held the title for over 400 days until his injury put the title reign on hold, faces the Interim champ SoCal Crazy.  This will settle who is the champ.  Either Cholo picks up where he left off or the reign is ended.  Interesting to see how this one turns out.

NWA Mid South does not want to be outdone.  This Saturday they have a Supercard that includes a title defense for the NWA World Tag Team Champs the Iron Empire.  It has NWA National Champ, Greg Anthony in a triple threat match that includes the man he defeated to win the title, John Saxon, and WWE former star Rodney Mack.  Also Tim Storm has issued an open challenge for the NWA North American Title.  Should be a great show.  As always. 

The Expanding NWA

The NWA announces two new promotions joining the fold. 

Iconic Heroes of Wrestling Excellence is a Fort Worth, TX based company.  This puts the NWA back in the Dallas metroplex area and back into the old World Class Championship Wrestling territory.  IHWE is not bringing a lot of new talent with them.  NWA has a lot of Texas territories, and so it is not surprising to see Andy Dalton, Charlie Haas, and others already participating in IHWE.  They have monthly shows and the one on October 31 looks to be big.  I mentioned earlier that Tim Storm has an appearance, and now it will be for the NWA North American Title.  It seems as if Jax Dane will also appear to defend the World Title. 

The other territory is Southeastern Wrestling Alliance that wrestles in Southern Georgia.  This promotion appears to be smaller, but does give NWA Atlanta some close-by help.  I would expect the NWA Georgia champ to make some appearances down in the new NWA Southeastern Wrestling.  This roster does appear to be almost completely new.  The champ is Effy Gibbs, and we will see how this promotion does and if it can benefit from sharing talent with other NWA promotions.  Also we will see if The NWA Southeastern Title currently defended in Smoky Mtn. Wrestling gets another rename.

Either way this is good news for the NWA who lost NWA Houston at the end of last year and NWA 360 a few months ago.  They have aggressively grown, and these are good steps.

NWA National and North American Titles

So the tournaments are over and the new champs are crowned.  I have to admit I am not surprised by Arrick Andrews being the National Champ, although a bit disappointed.  I was hoping for Tyson Dean, who is great.  Hoping he gets his shot sooner rather than later to run with a title. 

Andrews won the one night tournament held in his home promotion of NWA SAW.  Arrick Andrews will first renew his war with Golden Boy Greg Anothony who recently defeated Arrick to take the NWA Southern Title.  August 1 the two will go at it again at NWA Mid South. 

The NWA North American Title was a bit more a surprise to me.  Putting the belt back on Tim Storm is interesting.  It adds more clout to the Empire, but Storm won this belt away from his home promotions, which I would probably say was NWA Main Event.  I had thought it might be time to put a belt on Jake Logan, but Logan lost in the first round as did Mike Foxx, who was wrestling in his home promotion of NWA Texoma.  Interestingly Andy Anderson, also of NWA ATL and teammate of Tyson Dean, made the finals to lose to Tim Storm.  I like Andy, and this was a nice step forward for him and NWA ATL. 

This would seem to set up a nice feud between Storm and Dane when Jax finally returns.  Dane had already taken the strap off of Storm, so it would make sense for Dane to target Storm first.  Add in the fact Andrews is a face and so is Dane, it seems that maybe this is where Godzilla Jax Done takes aim first upon his return.