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The NWA board of directors, working separately from WCW, objected to the title being changed without their vote and WCW left the NWA for good in September 1993. [ citation needed ] WCW still legally owned and used the actual belt which represented the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, however, and Rick Rude even defended it as the " Big Gold ...
The world title of the NWA. It was defended within WCW from 1988 until 1993. NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship: The title was established under the Chicago territory of the NWA in 1955 and defended within WCW from 1988 to 1989. NWA World Tag Team Championship: The world tag team title of the NWA. It was defended within WCW from 1992 ...
On October 27, 2020, Serena Deeb defeated Rosa during the United Wrestling Network's Primetime Live event to become the new NWA World Women's Champion. [77] On March 2, 2021, the NWA announced their return to promoting events, with the Back For The Attack and new Powerrr episodes as part of a new distribution agreement with FITE TV.
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and its lineage began when Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which used the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) alliance name. Turner's organization was renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and split from the NWA in 1991. [1]
Became the WCW World Television Championship: Lightning One, Inc. introduced its own version in 2020 NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) 1991 Became the WCW World Tag Team Championship: National Wrestling Alliance, Inc. introduced its own version in 1992 and again in 1995 NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship: 1989
It was originally known as the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and began as a regional championship created by and defended in Jim Crockett Jr.'s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Harley Race became the inaugural champion on the title's introduction on January 1, 1975.
In 1921 the National Boxing Association (NBA) was formed in New York City to help regulate and create order in the world of professional boxing in the United States. [3] In January 1930 the NBA attempted to introduce the same sort of regulations and structure on professional wrestling, motivated by the fact that there were a multitude of "World Champions" all over the country, all claiming to ...
Crockett, who had just bought out Championship Wrestling from Georgia, bought the World Championship Wrestling program from McMahon for $1 million and returned NWA programming to WTBS. This promotion would eventually become World Championship Wrestling (WCW) when Turner bought the promotion from Crockett in 1988 and later withdrew it from the NWA.