Post by verbaltoxin on Oct 28, 2012 13:25:32 GMT -6
Here's the basics of the NWA situation, based on various web searches and such.
Last spring: NWA Hollywood turned Adam Pearce heel, aligned him with enemy and manager Stu Stone, and betrayed Colt Cabana. This angle was to establish the Seven Levels of Hate series: seven matches, seven sets of stipulations, the NWA World title being on the line each time. The feud began in NWA Hollywood, but was to trek across various NWA promotions, and culminate in an NWA promotion in Australia.
This was intentional to raise the NWA's profile and garner respect for the NWA title.
Meanwhile lawyer H. Bruce Tharpe and his partner sued the NWA for having a crappy insurance policy. Through this litigation they ended up with ownership of the NWA.
Tharpe told the members their votes meant nothing unless they voted for what Tharpe wanted to do. Tharpe legally wrangled control of the NWA and wanted to have final say over all things NWA. This led to many NWA members leaving, among them NWA Hollywood promoter Dave Marquez. As Pearce is a booker and TV producer with NWA Hollywood, this meant he was out of the NWA too, even though he was the World champion at the time.
On Oct. 26, Cabana and Pearce had the last match in the Seven Levels of Hate series. It was a cage match where Cabana went over; however, the NWA notified Pearce the match would not be for the title. This effectively made the entire series pointless, and the last match an anticlimax. So all the work Pearce and Cabana had done for the NWA meant nothing. They both knew this, so Pearce made a very congratulatory speech for Cabana after the match's conclusion, and handed his title to Cabana anyway. Cabana then proceeded to take the piss out of the NWA and its World title. Pearce, now out of the NWA anyway, vacated the belt on the spot. So in effect the belt got vacated twice in the same moment, as neither man accepted it.
NWA acknowledged the result of the last Pearce/Cabana match, but made no mention of the belt's vacancy, nor made any plans regarding its status. Pearce is still listed on NWA's website as the World champion.
In the end, Tharpe's actions have left him in charge of an NWA whose members are small and relatively obscure, no World champion, and its one, major angle spoiled by Tharpe's own chicanery. Perhaps the best thing at this point would be for the NWA itself to finally fold, but leave it to pro wrestling to find a way to hump a dead brand some more.
Last spring: NWA Hollywood turned Adam Pearce heel, aligned him with enemy and manager Stu Stone, and betrayed Colt Cabana. This angle was to establish the Seven Levels of Hate series: seven matches, seven sets of stipulations, the NWA World title being on the line each time. The feud began in NWA Hollywood, but was to trek across various NWA promotions, and culminate in an NWA promotion in Australia.
This was intentional to raise the NWA's profile and garner respect for the NWA title.
Meanwhile lawyer H. Bruce Tharpe and his partner sued the NWA for having a crappy insurance policy. Through this litigation they ended up with ownership of the NWA.
Tharpe told the members their votes meant nothing unless they voted for what Tharpe wanted to do. Tharpe legally wrangled control of the NWA and wanted to have final say over all things NWA. This led to many NWA members leaving, among them NWA Hollywood promoter Dave Marquez. As Pearce is a booker and TV producer with NWA Hollywood, this meant he was out of the NWA too, even though he was the World champion at the time.
On Oct. 26, Cabana and Pearce had the last match in the Seven Levels of Hate series. It was a cage match where Cabana went over; however, the NWA notified Pearce the match would not be for the title. This effectively made the entire series pointless, and the last match an anticlimax. So all the work Pearce and Cabana had done for the NWA meant nothing. They both knew this, so Pearce made a very congratulatory speech for Cabana after the match's conclusion, and handed his title to Cabana anyway. Cabana then proceeded to take the piss out of the NWA and its World title. Pearce, now out of the NWA anyway, vacated the belt on the spot. So in effect the belt got vacated twice in the same moment, as neither man accepted it.
NWA acknowledged the result of the last Pearce/Cabana match, but made no mention of the belt's vacancy, nor made any plans regarding its status. Pearce is still listed on NWA's website as the World champion.
In the end, Tharpe's actions have left him in charge of an NWA whose members are small and relatively obscure, no World champion, and its one, major angle spoiled by Tharpe's own chicanery. Perhaps the best thing at this point would be for the NWA itself to finally fold, but leave it to pro wrestling to find a way to hump a dead brand some more.