sek69 Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 So the United Wrestling Network is the "governing body" created by Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, and they recently announced a world title to go with their tag team and TV titles. The bracket: Watts is a CWFH regular and Peter Avalon is the booker/promoter for their Championship Wrestling from Arizona sister group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 Is the NWA no longer involved with this? I thought the whole point was that they recognized the NWA title as the world title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete1992 Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 I statted this in a Slack group but I feel like this is going to melt my brain. The UWN has been around for about 7 years. It was started by Marquez as he got booted after the whole Pearce vs. Cabana "debacle" for the NWA title. During this time the UWN amounts to essentially squat. The pitch seemed to be that the UWN, well Marquez I guess, had enough connections where he would be able to arrange local TV deals for affiliates. Currently the UWN website lists 3 promotions under the governing body, all Championships Wrestling From, Hollywood, Arizona, and Memphis. Not exactly exciting to see the BRANDING on all three affiliates. Anyway, no World title is established until they gain some sort of access to the NWA belts? I'm just confused on after all this time, why now when all Marquez really wanted was to have his own NWA sort of system. This tournament line-up feels like you are a few months in to your Local to Global TEW challenge run. Heck, if you were attempting to get a TV deal on a low-rent network you might even try and pitch a tournament with 5 former WWE wrestlers that have been on TV the past decade. But good lord, other than that not sure why we are doing this thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMKK Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 Belt up Karl Fredericks or don't bother tbh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallmike Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 I'm guessing they're doing this to build to a champion vs. champion match with Aldis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 What is Mike Bennett doing with his nipples in that pic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Log said: What is Mike Bennett doing with his nipples in that pic? Dunno what's more disturbing, what he is doing or the fact you noticed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 They had the Pope win the NWA TV title on the last UWN weekly PPV so it seems they are still working together. I see it more as Marquez hedging his bets and having his own world title in case the NWA deal goes south. I suppose he wants to have a champion that is around week to week while bringing in the NWA champ as a special attraction? Seems kind of a 1970s approach to things but if it works for them who's to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 13 hours ago, sek69 said: They had the Pope win the NWA TV title on the last UWN weekly PPV so it seems they are still working together. I see it more as Marquez hedging his bets and having his own world title in case the NWA deal goes south. I suppose he wants to have a champion that is around week to week while bringing in the NWA champ as a special attraction? Seems kind of a 1970s approach to things but if it works for them who's to say. Yeah, I saw that - clearly it's not a dead deal (and it seems it sort of worked out, since Dice's NWA contract had expired but they could get him on this show to drop the belt). I don't think crowning a champion for this show is a terrible idea, but it just seemed a but conspicuous that this was a "world title" tournament when they supposed recognize the NWA World Title. But maybe that's just me paying more attention to detail than they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckScumm Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 Does this mean CZW is officially dead? I thought Marquez had some small percent of ownership, & that CZW was also apart of the UWN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Say what you will about why this title exists, there's no doubt this is one sweet ass belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 That's one gorgeous belt right there. Probably one of the best looking I've seen at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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