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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2012 9:10:50 GMT -5
I didn't watch the video, but just wanted to mention that I saw several indy workers mention on Twitter yesterday how the NWA has resorted to doing horribly worked fake shoots to try to get attention. So, if it isn't obvious in the video, it's a work.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 24, 2012 10:33:23 GMT -5
If this was a work/shoot, shoot/work, or a Russo shade of grey, then it accomplished its mission. People are talking about the NWA again. May not be in a positive light but for the NWA, any publicity is good enough. I did laugh when Tarver said "Not in front of the kids".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2012 11:14:16 GMT -5
If that was a work it is one of the worst that I've ever seen. It literally looked like two 7 year olds fighting on the playground at recess.
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Post by CM Dazz on Dec 24, 2012 11:18:58 GMT -5
Yeeaaa, that was pathetic.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 24, 2012 14:56:27 GMT -5
I liked the big guy sitting on the small guy and leaning his elbow into the Gus head... I was waitinh for a noogie.
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Post by The OP on Dec 24, 2012 20:12:01 GMT -5
The video descriptions should have made a bigger deal of the fact that Tarver was there. He can knock a guy out in less than a second, or something.
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Post by Corporate H on Dec 24, 2012 23:23:47 GMT -5
That had to be work..but it's a rather good one at that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2012 23:33:27 GMT -5
During an event called "Bodyslamming for Toys" seems like a strange time to start a worked shoot but that's pro wrestling I guess.
NWA has been so off the wall during this year it's just become funny. I'm no longer sad for the legacy of NWA, I just laugh at how embarrassing they've gotten.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2012 21:34:58 GMT -5
It still boggles the mind a bit to see...any of this. The world title that was held by Thesz, Londos, Funk, Brisco, Race, Flair, etc. Vontested between two indie guys with very little national name value doing a possibly worked shoot at a charity event in a high school gym. And they didn't even need the whole gym to house all of the people. The "backstage" area was just the part of the gym that they weren't using.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 3:52:43 GMT -5
It still boggles the mind a bit to see...any of this. The world title that was held by Thesz, Londos, Funk, Brisco, Race, Flair, etc. Vontested between two indie guys with very little national name value doing a possibly worked shoot at a charity event in a high school gym. Forget about even naming those legends. This is a gigantic further step down from the prestige of even guys like Adam Pearce and Colt Cabana recently.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 26, 2012 8:02:41 GMT -5
The NWA that people know and loved died when WCW broke off ties in the 90's.
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Post by notasmark on Dec 26, 2012 8:52:05 GMT -5
The NWA that people know and loved died when WCW broke off ties in the 90's. I think more so it died in the early 90's, Made a return in the early 2000's (TNA) and has completely flat lined here in 2012. 2013-2014 the NWA will be a few Texas promoters and maybe 1-2 others. That's it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 11:01:11 GMT -5
The NWA that people know and loved died when WCW broke off ties in the 90's. I think it died as an alliance in 1986. The Big Gold belt, billed as the NWA World title from 1986-1993, wasn't even owned by the NWA. It was owned by the Crockett promotion, which became WCW, because by that point, Flair was pretty much exclusive to Crockett since almost all of the other NWA promotions either left the Alliance (World Class), closed, or were bought by Crockett. That's why Flair returned it to WCW, and why the NWA title in 1992-93 was defended only in WCW and New Japan. Ever since 1994 and the tournament where Shane Douglas threw the belt to the ground, it's been just a group of indies. In fact, the NWA belt that was used that night and ever since is just a replica of the belt that was retired in '86. Ric Flair still has the belt he, Harley Race, and Dusty Rhodes wore as champion. I've heard that he let WWE put it on display at WrestleMania Axxess this year.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 12:47:52 GMT -5
It still boggles the mind a bit to see...any of this. The world title that was held by Thesz, Londos, Funk, Brisco, Race, Flair, etc. Vontested between two indie guys with very little national name value doing a possibly worked shoot at a charity event in a high school gym. Forget about even naming those legends. This is a gigantic further step down from the prestige of even guys like Adam Pearce and Colt Cabana recently. Indeed. I was at least enjoying the notion that the NWA belt could become *the* indie title. Now, even that notion is very unrealistic.
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Post by theryno665 on Dec 26, 2012 14:05:06 GMT -5
I'm not sure what's sadder: that the shoot was real or the shoot was fake.
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Post by The OP on Dec 26, 2012 14:24:13 GMT -5
During an event called "Bodyslamming for Toys" seems like a strange time to start a worked shoot but that's pro wrestling I guess. NWA has been so off the wall during this year it's just become funny. I'm no longer sad for the legacy of NWA, I just laugh at how embarrassing they've gotten. If you think that's bad, apparently there was a reporting error in this story. The event name "Bodyslamming For Toys" wasn't a reference to charity, that's how they pay the wrestlers now.
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Post by Crusty Ruffles on Dec 26, 2012 14:42:14 GMT -5
People are talking about the NWA alright. On ways to completely avoid it.
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Post by jimmyjames on Dec 26, 2012 16:15:40 GMT -5
In terms of the decline of the NWA World Title, this just continues the gradual decline since what happened in Australia, which was pretty much a head first plunge off a cliff.
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