NWA International: Spanning the Globe

Pro Wrestling has been celebrated across the globe in hundreds of wrestling promotions throughout the years.  The National Wrestling Alliance has firmly kept its international roots since its inception well over 60 years ago.  And although over time, the names and faces have changed, the NWA is very much a global wrestling sanctioning body, with offices all across the United States there are other offices that span the globe that include, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, France, Japan, Korea, and Australia.  Often times the coverage of non-North American Wrestling promotions go by the way side.  But here at Alliance-Wrestling we are working to provide coverage on all things NWA, even to our lesser known international promotions.

The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) had announced their newest project much to the chagrin of The Scottish Wrestling Alliance (SWA).  The SWA has been the most active NWA member in the UK and even developed a training/feeder promotion to produce talent for its SWA, title NXT: The Next Generation.  The owner of SWA and NXT released the following comment to the media regarding the WWE announcement.

Everyone at the Scottish Wrestling Alliance is honoured that WWE have decided to name their latest product after SWA’s feeder programme, NXT. We would like to assure our fans that the original NXT is still leading the way for trainees in Scotland and the shows on 6th February, Spittal Community Centre, Rutherglen, 19th February, Bargarran Community Centre, Erskine, March 6th, Viewpark Community Centre, Uddingston and March 19th, Links Community Centre, Cumbernauld are all still due to go ahead as advertised.”   After long and careful planning, SWA:NXT made it’s debut in January 2007 as a promotion designed to showcase up and coming talent within Scotland in conjunction with SWA’s Area 52 wrestling school. In 2009
NXT Wrestling split from the Scottish Wrestling Alliance to stand on it’s own two feet, taking it’s own creative direction in September 

The situation was resolved when PJ Murphy, owner of the SWA stated on the SWA Website that the “WWE was proactive in working with us to come to mutually agreeable terms on the release of the NXT trademark once it learned of the potential conflict. The timing was right for us as we were planning on renaming the NXT brand to SWA:Source to be closer aligned with the SWA parent brand”  Scottish Wrestling Alliance presents: Live Pro Wrestling in Erskine, Renfrewshire on Feb.19th 2010.  The NWA Scottish Heavyweight Champion is “The Butcher” Scott Renwick, The Laird of the Ring Champion is Damien O’Conor, and the SWA Tag Team Champions are the STI.

NWA France has completed a newly designed Website for their fans. They have already announced two live events for the month of March, with the first event being March 7th, featuring NWA European Women’s Champion Bulla Punk. International Catch Wrestling Alliance has the distinction of being the home promotion for both the NWA France championship: Greg Fury, the NWA European Championship: Fritz Hellmeister, and the NWA European Tag Team Champions: East Connection. The ICWA also recognizes its own champions in former WWE wrestler Joe. E. Legend as the Heavyweight Champion and Booster Rocket as the Extreme Champion.

The country of Australia might be heading towards a cooling off season, but the wrestling in Australia is anything but. There are two promotions representing the National Wrestling Alliance in the land down under. NWA Pro Wrestling Australia Perth, Western Australia. NWA Pro Australia has recently announced that they will be creating a new tag team division, the NWA Pro Tag League begins to crown the first Australian National Tag Team Champions at Zero Tolerance. Teams confirmed for the tournament so far: The Graham Brothers’ Greg and Joey, The Los Aztecas, Hartley Jackson & “Pitbull” Craig Cole and the Australian National Championship will be defended. Zero Tolerance will be taking place March 20th. EPW has started its second season on Loco TV with its Monday Night Wrestling program, becoming Friday Night Wrestling on Loco TV. The first episode features a hardcore match up between Kracker Jack and former NWA Pro Wrestling M1W Heavyweight Champion: Bobby Marshall. This match took place at EPW’s Evolution 2009 and was brutal. This was prior to Bobby Marshall being exiled from Australia after being suspended by EPW Officials. Marshall was recently exiled from the US after losing his M1W Heavyweight Championship, one has to believe that Marshall is set to take his revenge on Richter and the entire Darkest Hour. EPW’s next big event is entitled GOLD RUSH 3 which is set to take place on April 17th. at the Cyril Jackson Rec Centre, Fisher St, Bassendean.

The NWA continues to span the globe and at Alliance-Wrestling.com, we plan to follow it. 

Scottish Wrestling Alliance presents: Live Pro Wrestling in Erskine, Renfrewshire

Our last trip to Erskine provided a night of unforgettable family entertainment showcasing the young up and comers of Source!

SWA Laird of the Ring Championship

CJ Hunter challenges Damien O’Conor for the title

The lightning fast cruiserweight sensation CJ Hunter returns to Erskine to make a huge challenge for the SWA Laird of the Ring Championship.

Standing atop the Laird division is Damien O’Conor, a strong and confident champion who has proven himself time and again, but can Hunter, a man who has held several championship across the UK, knock him off his pedestal and bring home the gold?

Also on the card…

SWA Tag Team Championship

‘The Professional’ Jackie Polo & ‘The Legitimate Athlete’ Joe Coffey challenge STI for the title.

The young challengers get a shot at William Grange and Dicky Divers as they make a bid for the tag team titles.

NWA Scottish Heavyweight Champion Scott Renwick & Joseph Kerr versus Mark Sweeney & T-Division Champion Private First Class Ricky Gibson

With a champion on each team, this is sure to be an explosive tag team match!

BT Gunn versus Andy Anderson

After losing his challenge for the T-Division title, former Scottish Champion BT Gunn locks in on a new target, but will the plucky young rookie Anderson be able to score abother victory?

‘Paisley Wrecking Machine’ Adam Shame versus ‘The Lowland Superstar’ Glen Dunbar

The baddest man north of Carlisle has battled Dunbar before in Dunbar’s specialty match, now he’s got a chance on even ground but can he stop the highland superstars momentum?

Black Samurai Jr versus Nikki Storm

An international, inter-gender match up as the man from Cobra Island takes on the fast paced Nikki Storm?

Credit: SWA Online