The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), under the leadership of William Patrick Corgan aka Billy Corgan (of the music group Smashing Pumpkins), holds their anniversary event this weekend, their biggest event of the year. NWA 74 is their WrestleMania and will be held as a 2-night doubleheader loaded with big names and big matches. Night 2 tonight has several more title matches and is headlined by a big man faceoff for the 10 Pounds Of Gold in the main event as NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch defends against NWA TV Champion Tyrus. The TV Title is not on the line so this is not a double title match. And after a brutal title defense last night against Taya Valkyrie, there’s no rest for NWA Women’s World Champion Kamille as she now must defend tonight against Max The Impaler, who won The Burke Invitational last night.
Tonight’s event will be held at the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO and can be watched LIVE on FITE. There are two ways to watch: Tonight’s event is available as a standalone PPV for $24.99 or you can get a combo pack with yesterday’s Night 1 included for $39.99. Either way, a purchase gets you the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays of both nights. If you are an NWA All Access Annual member or you sign up, you get both nights included and all past, present and upcoming NWA TV episodes and archived content live and on demand and more. NWA All Access Annual is $49.99 for a year-considering that’s how much this weekend’s PPVs cost on their own, and each of their 4 annual PPVs is $25 each, it’s a bargain-like getting this weekend’s events or 2 PPVs each year FOR FREE! I bought the Annual plan so I get this weekend’s events as part of it. There is also a monthly All Access plan for $4.99/month but that only includes the TV episodes. The first hour of tonight’s event will be a pre-show available FOR FREE on YouTube.
Tonight’s current lineup (subject to change):
Colby Corino vs. Caprice Coleman in a 2 of 3 Falls match
Thom Latimer vs. TBA (Latimer is advertised as facing Judais and also EC3 in a second match)
Mercurio vs. Magic Jake Dumas
Rodney Mack & Aron Stevens vs. Pope & JR Kratos in a Tornado Tag Match
12 Team Battle Royal for the reinstated NWA US Tag Team Championship. Announced teams: Hawx Aerie, The Fixers, The Ill Begotten, The Miserably Faithful, The Country Gentlemen, Gold Rushhh, The Now, Ruff ‘N Ready, The OGK
Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon
MLW National Champion Davey Richerds vs. Thrillbilly Silas for the title
NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide vs. Ricky Morton for the title
NWA Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered vs. The Hex in a Street Fight for the titles
NWA National Champion Cyon vs. Anthony Mayweather for the title
NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille vs. Max The Impaler for the title
NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch vs. Tyrus for the title
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6:55PM ET UPDATE: updates will begin shortly. Pre-show will begin in about 5 minutes.
We are LIVE from the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO. Your hosts are Joe Galli & Tim Syorm. Velvet Sky will join us when the PPV begins. Venue not even close to full but the crowd is still filing in.
Pre-SHow:
Match 1: Rhett Titus vs. Doug Williams in a Submission Match. Win only by submission.
Result: Time Limit Draw. We didn’t know until the end there was a 10 minute time limit
Grade: B-
May Valentine interviews Austin Idol.
Match 2: Angelina Love vs. Taryn Terrell
Resuit: Angelina Love beat Taryn Terrell
Grade: D+ (largely comedy from Terrell)
May Valentine interviews Mercurio. A Super Mario-like talker he is not. The OGK shows up at the end.
Match 3: Kerry Morton vs. Gustavo
Result: Kerry Morton beat Gustavo
Grade: C+
May Valentine interviews Blk Jeez.
Match 4: Jennacide, KiLynn King & Taya Valkyrie vs. Missa Kate, Natalia Markova & Madi in a Queen Bee Match. The winners will immediately face-off next in a 3-way elimination match
Result: Missa Kate, Natalia Markova & Madi beat KiLynn King, Jennacide & Taya Valkyrie. Markova pinned Jennacide. Which led to…
Part 2: Natalia Markova vs. Madi & Missa Kate in a 3-way elimination match
Result: Natalia Markova beat Madi & Missa Kate. Kate beat Madi first then Markova beat Kate.
Grade: C+
End Pre-Show. Updates will resume when the PPV begins in 10 minutes.
PPV:
Opening video features some highlights from last night. Crowd is noticeably smaller than yesterday. Velvet Sky joins commentary.
Updated card rundown for tonight. Thom Latimer will face EC3 and not Judais as was listed earlier on the NWA’s official website.
Match 1: Colby Corino vs. Caprice Coleman in a 2 of 3 Falls match
Fall 1: Caprice Coleman beat Colby Corino by submission.
Fall 2: Colby Corino beat Caprice Coleman
Fall 3: Colby Corino beat Caprice
Result: Colby Corino beat Caprice Coleman 2-1
Grade: C-
Match 2: 12 Team Battle Royal for the reinstated NWA US Tag Team Championship. Over the top rope only. All 12 teams in at the start A team is eliminated when one member is eliminated Entered teams: Team Ambition, The Ill Begootten, The Now, Gold Rushhh, Rough N’ Ready, The Fixers, The Country Gentlemen, The Spectaculars, Hawx Aerie, Miserably Faithful, The OGK, NEW NWA World Tag Team Champions La Rebelion.
Order of elimination: Gold Rushhh, Miserably Faithful, Ill Begotten, The Spectaculars, Rough N’ Ready, The Country Gentlemen, The Now, Hawx Aerie, La Rebelion, The OGK (eliminated themselves), Team Ambition
Result: The Fixers won to become the NWA US Tag Team Champions.
Grade: C
Matt Cardona promo.
Match 3: Mercurio vs. Magic Jake Dumas
Result: Magic Jake Dumas beat Mercurio
Grade: D
Match 4: MLW National Champion Davey Richards vs. Thrillbilly Silas for the title
Result: MLW National Champion Dacey Richards beat Thrillbilly Silas by submission to retain the title.
Grade: C+
Galli leaves commentary after saying he’s going to hijack the show. With microphone. He shouts out Billy Corgan then calls out his wife, Shelby Rodriguez, who is in the crowd and tells her to come to the ring. I know where this is going…he’s gonna ask. And he did. She looked equally embarrassed and dumbfounded but of course said yes. Galli then returns to commentary.
Barry Windham & JJ Dillon are brought out.
May Valentine interviews Kamille & Thom Latimer. Mostly Latimer about his opponent being changed to EC3. Kamille addresses Max The Impaler, her challenger tonight. Kamille has a POKER FACE.
Match 5: NWA National Champion Cyon vs. Anthony Mayweather for the title
Result: NWA National Champion Cyon beat Anthony Mayweather to retain the title.
Grade: C+
Match 6: NWA Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered vs. The Hex in a Street Fight for the titles
Result: NWA Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered beat The Hex to retain the titles. Both pinned Marti Belle together.
Grade: C+ (But as a hardcore match this was really fun)
Match 7: NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide vs. Ricky Morton for the title
Result: NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide beat Ricky Morton to retain the title.
Grade: C-
Match 8: Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon
Result: Nick Aldis beat Flip Gordon by submission
Grade: B
Afterwards, as Aldis left, Odinson came out and blindsided Gordon. Aldis tried to make the save and also got beaten down.
Match 9: Rodney Mack & Aron Stevens vs. Pope & JR Kratos in a Falls Count Anywhere Tornado Tag Match
Result: Pope & JR Kratos beat Aron Stevens & Rodney Mack. Pope pinned Mack.
Grade: B (Stevens, the former Damien Sandow in WWE, still does great comedy)
Match 10: EC3 vs. Thom Latimer
Result: No Contest. Control Your Narrative interfered and helped EC3 beat down Latimer. EC3 teased a chair shot as Latimer was restrained but instead sat on the hair and played mind games.
Grade: B
May Valentine interviews James Mitchell.
Bully Ray joins commentary, replacing Tim Storm for the next match.
Match 11: NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille vs. Max The Impaler for the title. Ring announcer incorrectly says Max won The Burke at NWA 34
Result: NWA Women’s World Champion Kamille beat Max The Impaler to retain the title.
Grade: B+
Billy Corgan comes out. He announces the NWA will return to St. Louis next year for NWA 75. He then asks for a moment of silence and an honorary 10 bell salute in memory of those the NWA family has lost the past 12 months, including Daffney, Jimmy Rave, Scott Hall, Tarzan Goto, Dave Hebner, Jim White and Gene LeBell among others.
Main Event: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch vs. Tyrus for the title
Result: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch beat Tyrus to retain the title.
Grade: B-
Afterwards, Murdoch tries to put over Tyrus but Tyrus knocks over the commentary table instead after talking to his kid at ringside and just walks off. Murdoch thanks the crowd to send them home happy.
Overall show grade: C
Like yesterday, I have not kept up on the NWA recently as much as I should have so I’m no tup to speed on what has been happening and that affected my perception of the weekend. There were some good matches and some bad matches, but also what felt like a lot of filler and a lot of the not-always-good things we see in WWE & AEW. Overall this weekend came off as average to me. For tonight, the Women’s title matches are worth watching, also check out Aldis-Gordon and the Tornado Tag. But if you’re relatively new to the NWA, watch some of their recent TV first if you can, you’ll get more out of this weekend.
End Show.
