Like cupids arrow we are being shot through the heart of this weeks
NWA news. This is the week in review for February 14
th, 2009.
The Worlds Heavyweight Title is scheduled to be defended at the El
Rancho Restaurant in
Tepotzotlan,
MX. This is the second of many efforts to bring affordable wrestling action to the fans of Mexico. It is well known that Mexico is suffering from the harsh economic conditions and this is
NWA Mexico's effort in trying to make their style of
Lucha Libre more accessible to the fine people of Mexico. Blue Demon Jr. will take on rival El Dandy. When asked about the qualifications of El Dandy in
receiving a title show, legendary 2
nd generation wrestler Bret Hart had this to say, "Who are you, to doubt El Dandy!" Sorry folks, that joke will never get old for me.
Speaking of the champ, Blue Demon Jr.'s appearance on the Showcase 09 took place yesterday on
ColoursTV. If you've been keeping up with this blog, you'd know that the match was made available earlier this week on
NWAWrestling.com. Demon defends against Border Patrol member Derrick Sanders. The card also features the Showcase debut of
Cade and Murdock, Joey Ryan, Tristan Gallo, and Adam Pearce bullies poor David Marquez.
Controversy,
confusion, and perhaps a little hard feelings were the sentiment in Music City this week. Apparently
NWA Main Event and associate
NWA Top Rope couldn't even agree to disagree as Main Event's promoter, Mike Porter claimed that only his television taping in Nashville was the only sanctioned
NWA event last week. However, Top Rope promoter Mike
Sircy, who recently created
NWA Cyberslam, which is a union of the
NWA Top Rope Promotion with Tennessee Indy promotions
USWO and
ATL begs to differ. "This taping is a
NWA Top Rope Production. The
internet show will be called
NWA Cyberslam. So I would have to say this portion of the night would be a sanctioned
NWA Show," claimed a
representative from Top Rope. That night of action did see the crowning of a new
Cyberslam Champion in
Kliff Hanger who defeated JD Fluffy, Raul Loco, and LT
Falk in a tournament to gain the crown. Porter's group ran a television taping for its Weekly action on Nashville's ION Network.
Brandon K has to be at least nominated for the Worst Tag Team Partner Award. Brandon K and Sterling James Keenan became the North American Tag Team Champions by defeating the Wrong Crowd last year. Aside from a handful of defenses K and Keenan hadn't really had that much competition. Brandon K had focused his energies on former National Champion Crusher Hansen. While Champion, Hansen evaded K for months. Finally being pinned in a match against Brandon that featured 4 other competitors. Brandon K thought he won the National Title before an executive decision gave the title back to Hansen. Hansen was later defeated by
NWA Anarchy's Phil Shatter.
Ok back to why K is a terrible partner, he puts up his partners half of the tag team title against Hansen's rematch against Shatter. If Hansen wins, he keeps his shot at the National Title and becomes Brandon K's new partner. If K wins,
SJK keeps his spot in the tag team and K gets a show at Shatter. In the infamous words of some fan at the Championship Wrestling from Hollywood
tapings "[Brandon K] you're a bum!" This all goes down today at the Valentine's Day
Massacre for
NWA East.
Earlier in the year we reported that
TJ Perkins lost a loser leaves town match in the
NWA Pro associate
EWF. When it seems that Perkins isn't just leaving the town, that he's actually leaving the state. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla broke the news about Perkins last match as a
SoCal Resident against long time foil B-Boy at the
PWG's Express Written Consent takes place Saturday, February 21. Perkins has been a foundation of the wrestling scene in So-Cal not only being a start attraction, but also trainer to many of the new talents. Perkins will be missed. There is speculation that
TJ Perkins will be moving to Florida. This could be great news for our
NWA fans on the East Coast. If you get a chance to catch a Perkins match, do it.
Lastly this week I got some clarification from Mr. Bill
Behrens, about the
NWA House Shows that were ran at the end of the year. "The three events were to be co-promoted with the [venues]," said
NWA Promoter Bill
Behrens. To my knowledge these were the first events that were not promoted in conjunction with the
NWA Pro Wrestling promotion. The first Ohio show was headlined by Trevor Murdock vs. Pepper Parks. Murdock had already worked some dates with
NWA Pro/
NWA Southwest as a challenger to Brent
Albright's Worlds Championship. Parks continues to work for the
NWA Empire promotion with working some dates with the
NWA Showcase television show and is a former National Heavyweight Champion. The second big event in Ohio was headlined by Al Snow vs. Pepper Parks. The third event which was to take place in Michigan was canceled because of low ticket sales. That event was to see Mike
Quackenbush defend his Junior Heavyweight title against Shannon Moore and the Skull
Krushers were to defend their belts against the Phoenix Twins. Unfortunately these shows were not taped. However
Behrens assured me that these won't be the last efforts of running these house shows in larger venues.
2009 for NWA Mexico starts with a series of shows that will make the NWA Lucha Libre more accessible by working smaller venues and charging less for tickets. This should be a successful move for the Luchadores with the global economic recession.
