NWA severing all ties with TNA

[SpicyMcHaggis]

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px">PWTorch has learned that TNA Wrestling and the NWA have agreed to a split of their partnership. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px">Bob Trobich, head of legal for the NWA, and Steve Campbell, head of legal for Panda Energy as representative of TNA, have negotiated to terminate the working agreement between the NWA and TNA. NWA will take back possession of the NWA Hvt. Title and NWA Tag Titles with a storyline to be set up at the Destination X PPV. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px">Jeff Jarrett has been the third party representing TNA during the negotiations to cease the working relationship.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px">There have been a lot of rules that the NWA has that TNA has not been following. As TNA has grown, and as the NWA name has become less of a marketing asset, a split was considered a strong possibility. TNA long ago stopped using the title &quot;NWA-TNA&quot; as its name.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px">TNA aligned with the NWA initially because TNA founder Jerry Jarrett, Jeff's father, believed that the &quot;NWA&quot; name carried credibility with the target audience for the weekly Wednesday night PPV format TNA began with. The heritage of the NWA World Title has been a marketing tool for TNA over its four-plus year history. TNA, though, did not want to abide by NWA rules such as having to notify the NWA board ahead of time when a title change was planned, use the NWA name in all marketing, and pay the NWA a fee if TNA ran an event in another NWA member's territory. For those and a variety of other reasons, an agreement to split has been reached.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px">TNA's titles will lose the NWA label and become TNA titles. How TNA will handle the &quot;lineage&quot; aspect of the storyline shift is not known yet. This has happened before, such as when ECW and World Class Championship Wrestling split from the NWA in the mid-1990s and mid-1980s respectively.</span>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by SpicyMcHaggis on 3-6-07 @ 6:29 PM</span>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i doubt most of todays fans could give a shit about the nwa name or lineage</p><p>i sure dont care what the&nbsp;titles are called, if there are good matches and storylines thats all i need</p>

[The_Showstopper]

<p>Im not sure how this will work out for TNA. It could be good in that it could give them more of an individual identity instead of piggybacking off the legacy of the NWA (which for all intents and purposes stoped having any real clout after rougly 1990) ill wait and reserve judgement on this till i see how it plays out.</p>

[K.C.]

<p>This isn't a huge surprise. </p><p>There was an article about this happening around this time like a year ago. TNA I think has to pay royalties to use the NWA titles and name and I think they decided after their agreement with the NWA ran out, they'd go their own route. </p><p>The only bad thing is that the NWA World Heavyweight Championship sounds a lot better than the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. </p><p>I'm curious about the storyline this will go down in, though. </p>

[NortonRules]

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Why?</font></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by NortonRules on 3-6-07 @ 7:43 PM</span>

[ponelas park townie]

<p>The NWA title lost it's meaning when WCW dropped it.</p><p>Proof:</p><p>50's: </p><p>Lou Thesz, Pat O' Connor, Dick Hutton</p><p>60's:</p><p>Buddy Rogers, Bobo Brazil</p><p>70's:</p><p>Harley Race, Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk</p><p>80's:</p><p>Ric Flair, THE MIDNIGHT RIDER, Kerry Von Erich, Ricky Steamboat</p><p>all legends.</p><p>1990-1993:</p><p>Sting, The Great Muta, Barry Windham</p><p>okay...</p><p>1994:</p><p>Shane Douglas, oh wait he shits all over it</p><p>1995-1999:</p><p>Dan &quot;the Beast&quot; Severn</p><p>WHAT?</p><p>1999-2002:</p><p>ECW guys &amp; Japanese guys</p><p>2006:</p><p>Abyss</p>

[raulfd4]

<p>i don't know about this...i don't think that</p><p><img src="http://www.lclark.edu/~soan/alicia/NWA.JPG" border="0" alt="niggaz w/ attitude" title="niggaz w/ attitude" width="246" height="160" />&nbsp;</p><p>would sever ties with some good ol' tits n ass!<br /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Tenbatsuzen]

<strong>raulfd4</strong> wrote:<br /><p>i don't know about this...i don't think that</p><p><img src="http://www.lclark.edu/~soan/alicia/NWA.JPG" border="0" alt="niggaz w/ attitude" title="niggaz w/ attitude" width="246" height="160" />&nbsp;</p><p>would sever ties with some good ol' tits n ass!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Well, Easy-E was more about the AZT than the TNA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[FezsAssistant]

Then what happened?

[raulfd4]

<strong>Tenbatsuzen</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>raulfd4</strong> wrote:<br /><p>i don't know about this...i don't think that</p><p><img src="http://www.lclark.edu/~soan/alicia/NWA.JPG" border="0" alt="niggaz w/ attitude" title="niggaz w/ attitude" width="246" height="160" /> </p><p>would sever ties with some good ol' tits n ass!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Well, Easy-E was more about the AZT than the TNA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> easy-e was more about the HIV than anything... i don't know what AZT is.... if you made the same joke as me then : THUMBS UP budday! </p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by raulfd4 on 3-8-07 @ 6:17 PM</span>

[SpicyMcHaggis]

AZT is the medicine that people with HIV take.ÿ Anyways, any ideas on how they're going to split the titles away?ÿ Will there be a story or a cop out?

[Don Stugots]

<p>cop out.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>or Corney takes the belt and walks out pissed over something that Russo did.&nbsp;</p>

[cougarjake13]

what if they make no mention of the switch and just refer to the titles as tna titles as if it never was anything else before that

[Don Stugots]

odds are, you're correct.

[conman823]

I just hope the new title design doesn't have any &quot;spinny&quot; parts to it.

[SpicyMcHaggis]

It's now official. (http://one.revver.com/watch/267425/flv/affiliate/87879) The titles have been stripped of the champs. Meanwhile the TNA PPV is still going on. I wonder how it'll be explained on TV.

[SpicyMcHaggis]

They took the bitch move and just decided to call them the World Tag Team and World Heavyweight Championship titles.

[cougarjake13]

They took the bitch move and just decided to call them the World Tag Team and World Heavyweight Championship titles.

with no mention of the switch ???

[SpicyMcHaggis]

I might be wrong because there was a controversial finish and according to some websites I read the plan is to have the title be stripped from TNA and then have a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion crowned at Slammiversary in the King of the Mountain match.

[cougarjake13]

I might be wrong because there was a controversial finish and according to some websites I read the plan is to have the title be stripped from TNA and then have a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion crowned at Slammiversary in the King of the Mountain match.

so kurt angle isnt the new champ ????

[cougarjake13]

here's the new titles

http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/special/2007/newtnatitles/1.jpg




http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/special/2007/newtnatitles/2.jpg



http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/special/2007/newtnatitles/3.jpg

[cougarjake13]

I might be wrong because there was a controversial finish and according to some websites I read the plan is to have the title be stripped from TNA and then have a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion crowned at Slammiversary in the King of the Mountain match.



here it is from tna's website


KURT ANGLE STRIPPED OF THE TNA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE – CORNETTE ANNOUNCES KING OF THE MOUNTAIN MATCH

Following last Sunday’s “Sacrifice”, controversy surrounded the TNA World Heavyweight Title, as Kurt Angle, Christian Cage and Sting all claimed they should rightfully be champion. As a result of what took place at the Pay-Per-View, Jim Cornette stripped Kurt Angle of the TNA World Title and announced that a new champion would be crowned in the King of The Mountain Match at Slammiversary! The first qualifying bout took place on Thursday night, with Angle beating “The War Machine” Rhino to advance to the Pay-Per-View bout!

[SpicyMcHaggis]

Damn I'm good. Well, I'm off to the PWU show.