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adramelech Junior Heavyweight Posts: 45	NWA / WCW Jan 17^th, 2007, 3:27am It's funny that I remember this but when I was watching Saturday Nights Main Event in school I always wondered why the local tv listings never change the name to WCW.. LOL.. It stayed listed as NWA for like 3-4 years after Ted bought it. Does anyone else recall this happening in their area back in the days?
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badstreetusa #1 Contender 'Southern Pride' Posts: 134 Gender:	Re: NWA / WCW Reply #1 - Jan 17^th, 2007, 12:20pm i never payed much attention to it.
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danpoutsma

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Reply #2 - Feb 16^th, 2007, 1:32pm

After TBS bought out Crockett Promotions the company began using both the NWA and World Championship Wrestling names in reference to the promotion (the legal name of the Turner group was originally called Universal Wrestling Corp. before they changed it to World Championship Wrestling, Inc.). This was going on as early as 1989. By 1990 much more emphasis started being placed on the WCW name until the NWA was phased out completely by the end of the year.

But yeah, I do remember my local TV listings referring to it as NWA up until the beginning of 1991 or so. The PWI/Apter Mags also called it NWA until I believe the 1991 Supercards issue that covered Wrestlemania VII and the WCW Japan Supershow.

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nwawcw Rookie Posts: 10 Gender:	Re: NWA / WCW Reply #3 - Feb 21^st, 2007, 10:55pm They were still fighting for the "NWA World Title" in '92 or '93.
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danpoutsma

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Re: NWA / WCW
Reply #4 - Feb 23^rd, 2007, 4:54pm

The promotion was just WCW by the end of 1990/beginning of 1991, but yeah, in Summer 1992 they brought back the NWA Heavyweight and Tag team titles as separate championships from the WCW titles. The Tag tournament was won by WCW World champions Terry Gordy & Steve Williams, who "unified" the two titles upon their victory, while the NWA Heavyweight title was used in cooperation with New Japan until Barry Windham won the championship at SuperBrawl III. Eventually the "unification" of the tag titles seemingly became forgotten, and by Fall of 1993 the Big Gold NWA World title belt morphed into what became known as the WCW International World title after WCW severed ties with the NWA completely.

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Reply #5 - Mar 11^th, 2007, 4:48pm

The NWA world heavyweight title was dropped when Flair beat Sting in 1991. Thus the "Big Gold" was known as the "WCW Heavyweight Championship" but when Flair got fired from WCW he took the physical "Big Gold" belt to the WWF and a replacement was had in WCW that you usually see picture of Ron Simmons, Luger, Vader and the likes holding. When Flair returned the "Big Gold" belt, NJPW resurrected the NWA title for a tournament which Masahiro Chono this is when the NWA world title came back into play in WCW in 1992, eventually Flair won the belt back and it was re-named the "WCW International Heavyweight title" so there were 2 main titles in WCW now the Worlds Heavyweight Champion and International Heavyweight Champion. Both of these titles unified at the Clash of Champions when Flair defeated Sting and they did away with the International Heavyweight Title and kept the "Big Gold" and re-named it the WCW Heavyweight Champion. Hope this doesn't confuse anyone! Shocked

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Re: NWA / WCW
Reply #6 - Mar 13^th, 2007, 10:44am

Quote from acenase on Mar 11^th, 2007, 4:48pm:

The NWA world heavyweight title was dropped when Flair beat Sting in 1991.

I'm not too sure about it being dropped at that point. Perhaps WCW stopped mentioning NWA at that time, but the NWA Title still existed as an active title.

Flair had beaten Sting in January. When Flair fought Fujinami in Japan in March, I think New Japan recognized it as Fujinami winning the NWA Title, but that Flair remained WCW champion. WCW glossed over the whole thing by saying "there was a lot of controversy" yadda yadda.

Flair beat Fujinami at SuperBrawl in May to end the "controversy." I presume New Japan recognized that match as Flair regaining the NWA Title.

My question is: did WCW promote SuperBrawl as having an NWA World Title match? Or just a WCW World Title Match?

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danpoutsma

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Re: NWA / WCW
Reply #7 - Mar 13^th, 2007, 1:07pm

In the ad for SuperBrawl the match was billed as a "WCW World title Dispute" and read:

Ric Flair - WCW World Champion? vs. Tatsumi Fujinami - WCW World Champion?

WCW had already ceased with references to the NWA several months before SuperBrawl took place. New Japan promoted the first match between the two in March '91 as an NWA title bout while WCW promoted it as a WCW title bout. The story in Japan was that the titles were split after the referees disagreed while WCW's story was that Flair took home the belt and was still the official champion after the controversial finish, but not without dispute. After the rematch it was reported in Japan that the titles were unified while in World Championship Wrestling Flair became the undisputed WCW champion.

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danpoutsma

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Re: NWA / WCW
Reply #8 - Mar 13^th, 2007, 1:21pm

Quote from acenase on Mar 11^th, 2007, 4:48pm:

The NWA world heavyweight title was dropped when Flair beat Sting in 1991. Thus the "Big Gold" was known as the "WCW Heavyweight Championship" but when Flair got fired from WCW he took the physical "Big Gold" belt to the WWF and a replacement was had in WCW that you usually see picture of Ron Simmons, Luger, Vader and the likes holding. When Flair returned the "Big Gold" belt, NJPW resurrected the NWA title for a tournament which Masahiro Chono this is when the NWA world title came back into play in WCW in 1992, eventually Flair won the belt back and it was re-named the "WCW International Heavyweight title" so there were 2 main titles in WCW now the Worlds Heavyweight Champion and International Heavyweight Champion. Both of these titles unified at the Clash of Champions when Flair defeated Sting and they did away with the International Heavyweight Title and kept the "Big Gold" and re-named it the WCW Heavyweight Champion. Hope this doesn't confuse anyone! Shocked

Both the NWA and WCW International title were "World" championships, but they were clearly treated as secondary to the WCW World heavyweight title. The only time the NWA and/or WCW International champion went on after the WCW champion on a Clash or PPV was at Starrcade '92 and Slamboree '94 and in both cases substitutes were needed. There was a brief time where the NWA title seemed to be treated as more important than the WCW title, but that was only from summer-fall of 1993 after Flair won the belt from Windham and Vader was injured and was locked up mainly in tag matches. And even then those matches were headlining over the NWA title.

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