Cauliflower Alley Show shaping up

While tonight is the Parade of Champions, the next big even is the Cauliflower Alley Club show in Las Vegas.  Usually it has major titles up for grabs, but perhaps not this year thanks to the Parade of Champions show. 

So far the NWA is sponsoring:

-          Kobra Kai and Marty Jannety vs. Sinn Bodhi and Markus Burke.  – This match is a bring in a name match and is going to be okay. 

-          The Ten Man Rumble – This is an always popular event that showcases some talent especially for Pro Wrestling Vendetta.  It is the main event of night 1 this year.

-          The Second Chance Battle Royal – this is what it sounds like, a second chance for those eliminated, and some others to get chance to win the shot.  Obviously it will take place on night 2.

-          Blue Collar Wrestling vs. Circle City Wrestling for titles – this is a 6 man tag event where each contestant has a belt and that belt is up for grabs.  Belts include NWA Pacific Northwest Title, NWA MidAmerican Title, NWA Continental Title (mainly defended in NWA Mid Atlantic), Blue Collar Heavyweight Title, NWA Circle City TV title, NWA Blue Collar TV Title, and NWA Circle City Heritage Title.  .  This will also show case Badd Blood, current Continental champ, and the man who vacated the Pacific Northwest title.  He is going to be great.  Good to see him on such a big stage.

-          6 Man Tag Midnight Delight vs. The Von Dooms and Bobby Sharpe – This is a Vendetta Pro match that showcases some of their talent.  Midnight Delight and Von Dooms are good tag teams and Bobby Sharpe is a young up and comer.  Not high enough to be headlining big events, but deserving to make the cut here.

There are other promotions putting on matches as well and former NWA affiliate Smash Mouth is putting the Bull of the Woods title up for grabs between Starks and Gueverra.  It should be a good match between two young guys.  And another that has some NWA hang over in it is Gold Rush putting up the Lady Luck Championship between current champ Thunder Rosa and former NWA Women’s champ, Santana Garrett.  It is nice to have her around the NWA still.  She made a quick appearance on NXT and WWE might be trying to sign her.  She has a lot of overseas commitments this year in Japan and India, so it will interesting to see what happens to her after the summer when most of that is fulfilled. 

Parade of Champions and CAC

It is a little unusual this year in the NWA.  They have two mammoth shows almost back to back.  You kind of wonder what is left for the CAC show in Vegas if everyone just wrestled at the Parade of Champions. 

The Parade of Champions card is taking shape. 
Jax Dane will defend the NWA World Title vs. Charlie Haas.  I love Charlie Haas, but I am fairly sure that he never wrestles outside of Texas anymore and owns a business there.  He is not going to win, but it should make for a good opponent. 

Iron Empire will defend the NWA World Tag Team Championship against Outlaw Inc.  This too me is the main event.  Dirty Andy Dalton and Barrett Brown should give Rob Conway and Matt Rivera all they can handle.  This should be a great match.

Amber O'Neal defends the NWA World Women's Title against Jessica James.  I don't know much about Jessica James, but I find it hard to believe she will win.  The real treat in this match is Veda Scott as the guest ref.  Hopefully this sets up something between O'Neal and Scott for the belt.

Rodney Mack vs. Raymond Rowe vs. Lance Hoyt is next and this might be for the IHWE Heavyweight title.  I am not sure if Rowe is the champ or not.  It is three heavyweights in one ring.  The winner ought to be lined up for a future NWA World Title shot.  Should be exciting.

Jason Kincaid vs. Chase Owens.  This is not advertised to be for the NWA Smoky Mtn. Title, so I doubt it is on the line.  Owens and Kincaid wrestle each other all the time including at the NWA Houston Invasion event a few years back.  They always have a great match, and if you are going to parade your best, might as well let these two go head to head.  Possible show stealer right here.

Also advertised is NWA North American champ Tim Storm, but nothing on his opponent yet.  In addition there is going to be an over the top battle royal for a National Title shot. 

What does this leave for the CAC? 
I doubt Veda Scott vs. Amber  O'Neal would happen that fast.  Although it would be good.
NWA is telling people to watch not only Vendetta Pro for announcements, but also NWA Mid South.  This makes one think that perhaps the NWA National Title of Greg Anthony will be defended at the CAC.  It could mean the Iron Empire as well.  In all probability the NWA World Junior title held by Tiger Mask IV will be defended, and that belt will probably change hands.  But to who is still up in the air. 
I did learn that former NWA territory, Smash Mouth wrestling (no longer affiliated) will be a co-sponsor and have some matches that will include Action Jackson.  The two day event should be exciting if you live in the Vegas area this is for you.

NWA title updates

The NWA has a new World Champ in Jax Dane and where he goes next is interesting.  He had a successful defense to start September at Branded Outlaw Wrestling and has another in October against Shane Taylor.  He does have an appearance at Smoky Mtn. Wrestling on October 3rd, I bet it is against Rob Conway, although a ten man battle royal was held for a future title shot, but whether that is the one coming up or not is hard to tell as is finding out who won it.  That Conway feud will also be featured on September 19th at Southern All Star Wrestling.

The love affair with Japan continues as NWA World Junior Champ has a defense scheduled against Tiger Mask at an upcoming New Japan event. 

And remember the NWA World Tag Team Champs are still in Japan as the Killer Elite Squad will defend against War Machine (which is Raymond Rowe and Hanson) at an upcoming Pro Wrestling NOAH event.  Now, this is for the Noah Tag titles, but I don't think the NWA titles are on the line.  But wouldn't this have been great on ROH TV rather than hidden in Japan?  I don't know what they are doing with the NWA Tag Titles right now.  They have not been defended in America forever.

Santana Garrett is still the Women's Champ and still destroying everything.  She made two people tap out at once in a pretty cool submission move that I don't even know the name.  She is now also the NOVA women's champ.  And she continues to represent the NWA almost everywhere except in the NWA. She is down in Puerto Rico with WWL this weekend.

Arrick Andrews has an appearance at NWA SAW coming up.  He did retain against Greg Anthony at NWA Mid South, which by all accounts was a great match.  Also he made a defense against Purple Haze.  The odd thing here was that Purple Haze, a Louisiana regular, was at the NWA Smoky Mtn. show for this match.  Both guys wrestling debuts for Smoky Mtn.  Andrews continues his National Title reign on SAW on the 19th.

North American Champ, Tim Storm, has retained at NWA Mid South.  He seems to be a SmashMouth Wrestling regular in Texas.  Storm actually has been doing a lot of wrestling outside the NWA, but I don't think the North American title makes appearances.  For instance on October 31st he is wrestling in IHWE against Brian Breaker, but there is no mention of the North American title.  Too bad because this title could use getting out a bit more.

NWA North American and National Titles

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!