{"id":125392,"date":"2024-07-02T02:52:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=125392"},"modified":"2024-07-02T02:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:52:43","slug":"nwa-inks-new-deals-for-young-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/07\/02\/nwa-inks-new-deals-for-young-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"NWA Inks New Deals for Young Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a move to lock down some of their top tier talent. The <strong>National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)<\/strong> has secured a few champions and fan favorites to long term deals.<strong> Billy Corgan<\/strong> continues to bolster his roster with young stars and champions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NWA Inks Multiple Champions, Top Talents to Exclusive Contracts<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eeI4PustgP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/eeI4PustgP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWA (@nwa) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nwa\/status\/1807842252464476492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Champs Are Here&#8230; To Stay<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/06\/19\/nwa-star-to-make-their-silver-screen-debut\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Max the Impaler<\/strong><\/a>, the \u201cWarlord of the Wasteland,\u201d is the unified <strong>NWA<\/strong> Television Champion. The non-binary nightmare recently made their silver screen debut as a horror villain. They can now add contracted NWA superstars to the list. Max inked a deal, but without ink according to their twitter, to stay long term with the Billy Corgan-led promotion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current reigning and defending women\u2019s tag team champions are also here to stay. <strong>Charity King<\/strong> and <strong>Danni Bee<\/strong>, \u201c<strong>The King Bees<\/strong>,\u201d won the belts and essentially were the catalyst that broke up the <strong>Pretty Empowered<\/strong> dynasty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pair of champions had successful runs as both a tag team and singles competitors, before landing in the NWA. They are also joining Max and others, as a long term member of the family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NWA Chief Operating Officer Joe Galli would have this quote in the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalwrestlingalliance.com\/news\/nwa-inks-multiple-champions-top-talents-to-exclusive-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NWA News<\/a> and Press release on their website.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time for the NWA, its talent and fans\u2026 The future of the National Wrestling Alliance is bright, and our growth over the last year has been incredible. \u201c<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young Talent Sticking w\/ the NWA<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former NWA Junior Heavyweight Champion <strong>Colby Corino<\/strong> has also decided to stay in the company. The independent standout is the son of <strong>WWE<\/strong> coach and producer <strong>Steve Corin<\/strong>o. Joining Corino is women\u2019s division star <strong>Natalia Markova<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both have inked new long term deals. Markova is a staple in the women\u2019s division, as well as a competitor in the 2024 <em><strong>Crockett Cup<\/strong><\/em> with tag team partner <strong>Bryan Idol<\/strong>. Markova has a huge online following, bordering on the cult level of fandom. The online wrestling community can\u2019t seem to get enough of her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her tag team partner Bryan Idol will also be staying with the promotion. Idol is one of the key promoters in the regional success of the NWA going back to the territories. Idol has had success outside the US, including title runs in Puerto Rico, helping broaden the NWA reach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NWA has a run of big shows scheduled this summer including <em><strong>NWA 76<\/strong><\/em> at the historic 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. All of the newly contracted talents can also be seen weekly on <strong><em>NWA Powerrr<\/em><\/strong> on Tuesdays on <strong>The CW<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NWA<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. Check out the NWA, its weekly program NWA Powerrr on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@nwa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalwrestlingalliance.com\/cw-app\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The CW App<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0and all pay-per-view events, on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/channel\/nwa\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>FITE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to lock down some of their top tier talent. The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) has secured a few champions and fan favorites to long term deals. Billy Corgan continues to bolster his roster with young stars and champions.\u00a0 NWA Inks Multiple Champions, Top Talents to Exclusive Contractshttps:\/\/t.co\/eeI4PustgP \u2014 NWA (@nwa) July 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4168,"featured_media":125397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6504,2192],"tags":[4901,6166,5125],"class_list":["post-125392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nwa","category-wrestling","tag-colby-corino","tag-max-the-impaler","tag-natalia-markova"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}