NWA Week in Review for Feb. 7th

Welcome back to the week in review for February 7th., 2009. The big rumor of the week is that AAA’s Sean “Xpac” Waltman has a return date scheduled for the NWA Showcase. Waltman was a regular attraction for the NWA before joining Mexico’s AAA. Waltman’s rivalry with “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce even earned him the NWA Heritage Championship. Although his run with the title was short-term, Waltman and Pearce had a series of good matches. Since joing AAA, Waltman has formed a stable with 2 other NWA Pro Wrestlers, Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero and are known as D-Mex. Waltman is to join King V and the World Tag Team Championship showdown between the Young Bucks and the Skull Krushers, to be a part of the big NWA Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

NWA Mexico held its first show of February on the 4th. The show was headlined by the rivalry between Blue Demon Jr. and El Dandy, as Worlds Heavyweight Champion Demon teamed up with Hurricane Ramirez to battle Dandy and Scorpio Jr. We’ll post the results when they become available. But what is probably even more exciting is that on Friday the 13th, NWA Mexico will partner with Promociones Wagner, El Todo X El Todo, and Los Perros del Mal in bringing a unique experience for Mexican Wrestling fans. A lucha libre dream match between El Hijo de Santo and NWA Worlds Champion Blue Demon Jr. battling against Hijo del Perro Aguayo and Dr. Wagner Jr.

The newest NWA member in Wisconsin, Brew City Wrestling announced earlier this week that they have come to an agreement with Time Warner Cable. The show will be a half hour and will be played twice a week in West Allis and in Waukesha. The first taping will be filmed on February 20th. BCW joined the NWA Midwest family on January 16th and has become the 3rd promotion in Wisconsin to carry the NWA Banner.

Speaking of new members of the NWA Family, On February 2nd, the commissioner of NWA Southwest, announced its territory will be growing. Total Championship Wrestling joins; World Of Wrestling(Houston), Gulf Coast Wrestling Alliance (Corpus Christi), Professional Wrestling Federation (Amarillo), Paradise Professional Wrestling (South Padre Island), and NWA Oklahoma in making up one of the largest territories in the NWA. TCW plans on running several shows a month in Austin bringing the NWA brand to the capital for the first time in 23 years.

Things are heating up for NWA in Maine. Rick Fuller is helping NWA On-Fire to bring “Chaos and Destruction” all over Main. Fuller a former WCW and NJPW star will be debuting for the shows in on the TV Taping Schedule. Also scheduled is former TNA star Apollo. The Main Event for the February 6th show in Fairfield will feature Mixed Tag-Team match of Naughty Adrianna and Cousin Larry vs. Miss Alisha and Sonny Roselli. On February 7th in Mexico, The Samoan Warriors will defend their NWA TV Tag Titles against The Logan Brothers, Latin Hit Squad and the Playas Club in a 4 Team Tag Championship Challenge. And Lastly the big main event for the Springvale show on February 8th will feature Apollo and Big Rick Fuller taking on NWA Television Champion Danny Inferno and the 7’1″ Giant Pharaoh.

Unfortunately the NWA Showcase experienced technical difficulties with their broadcasting partner Colours TV this week. Colours aired a previous episode of the NWA Showcase from last year. David Marquez has already confirmed that the Showcase will air on NWAWrestling.com.

NWA Southwest adds Austin Based TCW.

On February 2nd, the commissioner of NWA Southwest, Ken Taylor has announced its territory will be growing. Total Championship Wrestling joins; World Of Wrestling(Houston), Gulf Coast Wrestling Alliance (Corpus Christi), Professional Wrestling Federation (Amarillo), Paradise Professional Wrestling (South Padre Island), and NWA Oklahoma in making up one of the largest territories in the NWA. TCW plan on running several shows a month in Austin bringing the NWA brand to the capital for the first time in 23 years.

The promoter of NWA-SW/TCW is Mr. B, and he says he looks forward to hosting NWA title matches in basically the center of Texas. He said NWA-SW/TCW will give Texas, the best talent from the Austin area, and the promotion will bring in well known talents from around the world. “Taylor added that NWA-SW/TCW will very effectively serve the Austin area. This central location fits in very well for our champions to make a lot of appearances,” he said. “They have an impressive talent base already in place starting with two-time former NWA Texas Heavyweight champion Steve DeMarco, Gabe The Babe, Manny Domingo, Jason Strong, Madcow, Ryan Johnston, Jose Valiente, Mr. B, and many others.”

The first show under the NWA banner will be this Friday, February 6, at Arena Nacional located at 1500 South Pleasant Valley Road. The hotline number is 512-358-1391. Bell-time 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 6:30. Tickets this Friday only $5.00.