The National Wrestling Alliance posted the following video, revealing the brand new design of the NWA National Championship, as well as introduces all of the competitors in this weekend’s tournament to crown a new champion.
NWA’s 70th Anniversary event takes place this Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee; the full match card and details are here.
Update: Wrestlezone’s Kevin Kellam spoke with NWA Vice President Dave Lagana after the title was revealed, he offered the following comments about the design of the new title:
The actual title—and I posted it as I was packing my bag, I haven’t read any feedback—the title is a legitimate throwback to the NWA United States title, and there’s not a belt like it on the market right now. It’s retro for retro; Billy [Corgan] loves anything that sort of ties to the past, so obviously there’s a United States Championship in the world in WWE, there’s a North American [Championship], but when we made the decision to add another championship, the National title, we always loved the name. The most famous design of the National title was the one that Tully [Blanchard] had, it looked very much like the NWA TV title; we kicked around a few designs but kept coming back to this ‘US’ one that represents our nation. We thought ‘why not?’ and the couple of people we let in—it was very interesting—the design is polarizing.
What I’ve learned in the past six months is a lot of people really like title belts. I get Tweets every day about bringing back the territories’ Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. I think everybody has a large affinity for what some call a ‘secondary title.’ I don’t like calling it that, but the fact that we have Magnum TA doing us a huge favor, coming up the last minute, him and Jeff Jarrett—who was a very famous Intercontinental Champion—will be the men involved in the segment in presenting the title. These titles are important, and as we saw last year with ‘Ten Pounds Of Gold,’ we made [the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship] very important. It’s real to a lot of people, so my goal with this one was to create a design where it’s an open field.
Stay tuned as we will have a full interview with Dave Lagana posted on the site shortly.
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