Trivia / National Wrestling Alliance

• Career Resurrection
  • Rob Conway's World Heavyweight Champion run alongside Davey Boy Smith Jr and Lance Archer as World Tag Team Champions the Killer Elite Squad, especially after the NWA invasion of New Japan in 2013.
  • Tim Storm was thought of as a respected but unremarkable wrestler until his run as World Heavyweight Champion under Billy Corgan’s NWA, which brought much new attention to himself in addition to raising the profile of the NWA itself.
  • Nick Aldis's run as World Heavyweight Champion since 2018 completely undid any lingering doubt people had about his ability to carry a company after his less than stellar championship run in TNA.
  • Trevor Murdoch was on the verge of retirement, but his run in Billy Corgan's NWA completely rebuilt his image after he had been jobbed out in TNA as Jethro Holiday.
• Creative Differences: What lead to their deal with TNA being cutoff seven years early. The NWA is, of course, known for its world champion standards and TNA wanted to brand more distinct material.
• Distanced from Current Events: Russian-born wrestler Natalia Markova is no longer billed from said country in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Executive Meddling
  • Lou Thesz might have been known for manipulating things behind the scenes, but it was the Board of Directors who refused to have him drop the world title to Verne Gagne and cut Buddy Rogers's title run short, leading to the defections of what would become the American Wrestling Association and the WWWF.
  • The Board of Directors was also responsible for the alliance not expanding to Japan in the late 50s despite Thesz's wishes after seeing how popular wrestling became there. That being said, after dropping the world title to Dick Hutton, Thesz was awarded the NWA International Heavyweight Championship so that he could basically use it as a world title in Japan, a title belt that eventually became of the three that composed AJPW's Triple Crown Championship.
  • Billy Wolfe had Mildred Burke effectively banned from the NWA after their breakup. As she was the biggest star among women wrestlers in the country and one of the biggest wrestling stars in the world, this motion effectively devalued women's wrestling entirely after 1952. And since women's wrestling value had decreased, the NWA members had no reason to listen to Burke's side of the story, since money was probably the only thing that would make most of the men promoting take a woman's story seriously anyway.
• Fan Community Nickname: NWA Fam.
• Follow the Leader
  • Though not outright stated to them, Starrcade was created as a special show for the wrestling fans of the Carolinas who tended to spend more money than anyone else and, subsequently, Starrcade had some of the best houses in the entire history of the NWA and the greatest at the gate revenue. Crockett wanted a big named show for a big name arena that was ideal for shooting pay per views in a large metropolitan area, their own WrestleMania, and rather than spend time developing another show decided to slap the Starrcade name on it. To this end Starrcade ended up being moved to Chicago, where the fans weren't as enthusiastic for NWA and thus didn't spend as much. On top of this, few networks ran the pay per view due to Vince Jr threatening to pull WrestleMania, and many of the fans Starrcade was created for became resentful when the NWA moved it to a different State.
  • NWA Midwest, Mid America, East, Max, New South, New England, Oklahoma, South Atlantic, Wisconsin, Tri-state, Rocky Mountain and Rocky Top having an X division is not an example of this trope, nor is Zero1 Midwest, since TNA was part of the NWA. They were just being accommodating. All Star Championship Wrestling, Com Pro Oklahoma, Steel Rage Pro Wrestling and PWX also having X Divisions is an example of this though.
• Follow-Up Failure: The All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling Association, a smaller scale governing body meant to oversee the many women's promotions in Japan that had sprung up in response to Mildred Burke's WWWA touring the country in 1954. The problem was the promotions had little respect for their supposed overseer and wouldn't cooperate with it or each other even after the NWA sent Fabulous Moolah to drop the World Women's Title to Yukiko Tomoe. In the end, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling was the only thing salvaged and it stood separate from the NWA.
• He Also Did: NWA promoters weren't just wrestling promoters, but sports promoters. Sam Muchnick also promoted basketball games, including Harlem Globetrotter games out of the St. Louis territory. The Crocketts promoted baseball in the Carolinas. Mexico City promoter Salvador Lutteroth had boxing matches in his buildings. Even in the post territorial era there were promoters like Howard Brody, who was involved with USA Judo.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: Lou Thesz pressured the NWA board into ensuring the World Heavyweight Champion would not defend his title on cards that involved matches between women, midgets or zoo animals. While the restrictions on females and dwarfs were eventually dropped, the separation between zoo animals and heavyweight champions stood firm.
• Real Song Theme Tune: NWA Power used Dokken's "Into the Fire" as its intro/credits theme for a while, before switching to Pantera's "I'm Broken", until it switched back after coming back from the hiatus created by the COVID pandemic.
• Romance on the Set
  • One half of the Becker Brothers, George, dated Joyce Grable.
  • Billy Wolfe was the husband of Mildred Burke, Nell Stewart and LaChona LeClaire, while his son was the husband of June Byers. That's two World Women's, a Texas and a Florida Champion.
  • Though not often, since he was primarily an AWA guy, Eddie Sharkley did stop in the NWA territories from time to time, where his wife, Princess Little Cloud, worked.
  • Mighty Jumbo was married to Dot Dotson
  • Beverly Shade and Billy Blue River, who together trained Shade, a tag team partner.
  • Adrian Street and Miss Linda did get married.
  • Jazz and Rodney Mack had at least two kids.
• Star-Making Role
  • The British Common Wealth title match between Fergal Devitt and Dru Onyx was one for both men, resulting in both getting invited to the Inoki Dojo. New Japan only signed Devitt in the long run, however.
  • Being in the IronGodz tag team represented by Bruce Tharpe and representing the NWA against The Killer Elite Squad of Suzukigun and Tencozy helped shoot Jax Dane into stardom.
• What Could Have Been: There was a push to bring the WWWF back into the NWA on the deal that Bruno Sammartino would be given the World Heavyweight Title belt. Sammartino wasn't excited about the schedule required of an NWA Champion, demanding that he get every Sunday off, so it didn't happen.
• You Look Familiar: A common tactic in the days before national broadcasting was to have an unpopular wrestler be traded to another promotion, often with their gimmick being altered to avoid being recognized.