History Wrestling / NationalWrestlingAlliance

* CanadaEh
** Although the best known Canadians, Terry, Ronnie and Jimmy Garvin, were ''French'' Canadian, so not too many "Eh"s from them, and they were a lot meaner than the stereotypical "nice" Canadians. Earlier and straighter examples were Ontario based Billy Watson and "The Mighty Canadian" Alberta based Gene Kiniski. A later straighter example in Christian Cage, in a general sense, as he was at his "nicest" as champion, but boasted more charisma than the average Canadian wrestler.
** The Blanchards are associated with the southern US and Colons Puerto Rico but Tully and Wrestling/{{Carl|itoColon}}y do have Canadian citizenship.

In 2002, after the Wars ended, Wrestling/JeffJarrett launched a new national promotion, NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA), which was a member of the NWA for the first two years of its existence. The NWA title, back in the national spotlight for the first time in a little under a decade, remained in use by TNA until 2007, when it was recalled by the NWA membership. By that point, the NWA was seen as nothing more than a loose collection of farm-league promotions, none of whom dated back to before the 1980s. Given the massively-altered landscape of the pro wrestling industry as compared to the heyday of the NWA, it is very highly unlikely that the organization will ever return to its former glory.

Since the sale to Corgan, the NWA has gone an unusual route of having no home company or promotion doing business under the NWA banner. Instead, the strategy has been to promote the NWA championships themselves, marketing the titleholders as free agents who defend their titles in various promotions. This has the benefit of keeping their brand in the public view, giving fans of more-established companies a special exhibition whenever an NWA title is featured on their programming, in exchange for said companies paying a promotional fee to the NWA for the privilege. All without the expenses of building and maintaining a wrestling company from scratch, with the high startup costs, failure rates, and razor-thin profit margins entailed. In a way, it is almost the same model as some major boxing promotions, who make their money from cable companies and arenas willing to pay to have their titles defended on their shows.

** WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda in NWA Pro and PWR (though the gimmick is [[TheArtifact an artifact]] from the Mexican independent circuit)

* HalloweenEpisode: NWA Smoky Mountain has ''The Havoc Before Halloween''. Before that, NWA Pro worked with the Alternative Wrestling Show for ''Halloween Slaughter House 3''. Even WCW's "Halloween Havoc" annual October PPV started in 1989 while still a member of the NWA.

* EpicFail: It was reported that NWA almost got a televised deal with The CW, which included the weekly Powerrr programming and a reality show to be aired in the network... that is until an incident took place in the Samhain PPV, where Father James Mitchell, alongside with women and wrestlers alike, are snorting cocaine. The segment drew negative reactions in the social media and was also negatively received by said executives as well. Since then, NWA Powerrr got relegated as a CW app show while the main CW channel will air Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} instead, starting on October 2024.

* PowerTrio: Many, but The Fabulous Freebirds Michael "P.S." Hayes, Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy, and Buddy "Jack" Roberts came up with the "Freebird Rule", which allowed all three of them to be NWA Tag Team Champions and any two of them to defend the belts on any given night. This would quickly be copied by Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, then The Russians,[[note]]Wrestling/IvanKoloff, Wrestling/NikitaKoloff, and Krusher Khruschev[[/note]] then Wrestling/{{Demolition}} in the WWF and remained popular throughout the Wolfpac's[[note]]Wrestling/KevinNash, [[Wrestling/SeanWaltman Syxx]], Wrestling/ScottHall[[/note]] run in WCW to Triple X,[[note]]Wrestling/LowKi, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/ElixSkipper[[/note]], 3 Live Kru[[note]]Wrestling/RonKillings, [[Wrestling/RoadDogg BG James]] and Wrestling/{{Konnan}}[[/note]] and Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople in TNA[[note]]Wrestling/VelvetSky, Wrestling/MadisonRayne and Lacey Von Erich[[/note]] and beyond...

* {{Determinator}}: Though reduced to a tiny fraction of its former prestige, give credit where credit is due. Almost every other wrestling promotion that's broken away has gone the way of the dodo, from the [=AWA=] and Jim Crockett Promotions in the 80's all the way to powerhouses like Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{ECW}} in the early 2000's, with only a [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling notable]] [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} pair]] of exceptions. After being trashed by ''every'' member promotion that's gotten a whiff of success on the national scene, their World title treated as less than tin foil on television time and time again, nobody would have blamed the [=NWA=] leadership for throwing in the towel. But they've held strong, and with the rise of the internet, smaller promotions under the [=NWA=] umbrella who've never had an audience larger then a high school gym have been able to expose their product to a wider market without the need of traditional cable outlets, leading to a slight resurgence.

* '''NWA United States Tag Team Champions:''' '''The Immortals''' '''Odinson and JR Kratos''' since October 28th, 2023

* '''NWA United States Tag Team Champions:''' '''Daisy Kill and Talos''' since August 27th, 2023

* '''NWA World Television Champion:''' '''Thom Latimer''' since February 14, 2023
* '''NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions:''' '''Pretty Empowered''' '''(Ella Envy and Kylie Paige)''' since August 27th, 2023 (Titles were reinstated)
* '''NWA United States Tag Team Champions:''' '''Daisy Kill and Talos''' since August 27th, 2023 (Titles were reinstated)

Thanks to the rise of the internet, however, the NWA has been able to expose their product to a much wider market than, say, the 90s, and have gotten a slight resurgence of sorts. It began with a short-lived, internet-exclusive wrestling show called ''NWA Wrestling Showcase'' in 2008. Only ten episodes were produced before the series went on a hiatus which lasted a year. When the show briefly returned in '09, it was being taped from Hollywood, California. September of 2010 would mark the debut of ''NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood'', a new promotion and weekly television show seen on KDOC-TV in Los Angeles and online via Website/BlipTV.

* HappyDance: Wrestling/LaParka is nearly always dancing and while [[Wrestling/TheOsirianPortal Ophidian and Amasis]] don't stop by particularly often, they tend to dance even more.

** Wrestling/JamesJDillon, manager of The Four Horsemen, also ran one of the most successful stables of post ECW NWA, The Empire.

* SpiritualSuccessor
** Kerry Wrestling/{{Von Erich|Family}}, who competed in Championship Wrestling From Florida, was known as the Texas Tornado for a stretch in the WWF. Galan Ramírez and Jacob Kilgore act as successors in NWA Bodyslam's Texas Tornadoes.
** The NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title established in 1993 and defended in ECCW is one to the belt established in 1946 that was defended in the Calgary Territory.
** In a promotional example, NWA Mid South is, of course one to the old Mid-South territory and had a rival in IWA Mid-South, until the latter was banished from the state of Kentucky.
** All Action Wrestling aimed to be what NWA World Championship Wrestling used to be for Australia when they became a member promotion in 2013.
** The Independent Wrestling Association, Global Professional Wrestling Alliance and World Wrestling Network are not organized like the NWA but are alliances made up of multiple promotions all the same. Of the post territorial "successors", The World Wrestling League might have been the closest in structure, [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent described by some as a Latin American NWA]] until WWL became a promotion in its own right, unlike the NWA. All four "successors" listed [[{{crossover}} have featured NWA Champions on their shows]].
** CWF Hollywood, itself a spiritual successor, joined thirteen other promotions to form the United Wrestling Network in 2013, after it had left the NWA.
** Damien Wayne was champion of the Allied Independent Wrestling Federations at the same time his was one half of the NWA Midwest Tag Team Champions (with Lance Erikson).
** Hunter Law and Aria Blake have all but admitted to trying to emulate the Georgia seventies Marie Laveau.

* '''NWA [[InsistentTerminology Worlds]]'''[[note]]The NWA now insists on the use of the plural "Worlds" for its heavyweight title, despite its other world titles using the singular term.[[/note]] '''Heavyweight Champion:''' '''[[Wrestling/BrodusClay Tyrus]]''' since November 12, 2022
* '''NWA National Champion:''' '''Cyon''' since August 27, 2022
* '''NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion:''' '''Kerry Morton''' since November 12, 2022
* '''NWA World Tag Team Champions:''' '''La Rebelión''' '''(Bestia 666 and Mecha Wolf)''' since August 27, 2022
* '''NWA World Women's Champion:''' '''Kamille''' since June 6, 2021

* '''NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions:''' '''Madi Wrenkowski and Missa Kate''' since February 21, 2023 (Titles were reinstated)
* '''NWA United States Tag Team Champions:''' '''The Country Gentlemen''' '''(AJ Cazana and Anthony Andrews)''' since January 31, 2023 (Titles were reinstated)
* '''NWA World Women's Television Championship:''' '''Kenzie Page''' since April 7, 2023

* SaltAndPepper: The most famous example were Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, Bubba Ray (salt) and Devon (pepper) but the motif is recurring. The Skull Krushers, Keith Walker (salt)-Rasche Brown (pepper) were in a rivalry with The Dark City Fight Club Jon Davis and Kory Chavis (both pepper)