{"id":134539,"date":"2025-04-29T03:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=134539"},"modified":"2025-04-29T03:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:33:47","slug":"natalya-to-challenge-for-nwa-world-womens-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/29\/natalya-to-challenge-for-nwa-world-womens-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalya To Challenge For NWA World Women&#8217;s Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Wrestling Alliance announced that Natalya Neidhart will challenge Kenzie Paige for the NWA Women\u2019s World Championship at the Crockett Cup event on May 17 in Philadelphia, PA. As announced<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span>in early March, WWE Star <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/03\/04\/wwe-star-natalya-announced-for-the-nwa-crockett-cup-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">Natalya will participate in NWA&#8217;s Crockett Cup<\/a>, but her opponent has not been confirmed until now.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a win over Miyu Yamashita at Josh Barnett&#8217;s Bloodsport during WrestleMania 41 weekend, Natalya confronted NWA World Women\u2019s Champion Kenzie Paige. This led Corgan to book a title match between the 2 women at the Crockett Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s always our distinct honor to host this modern version of the Crockett Cup, but holding the event in this great and historic building in Philadelphia, with the addition of a WWE Superstar such as Natalya, in an NWA title match no less, shows how far we have come.\u201d \u2013 William Patrick Corgan, NWA President<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At only 23, Kenzie Paige is the biggest star in the NWA women\u2019s division. She is currently the double champion, holding the NWA Women\u2019s World title for over 600 days and the Women\u2019s Tag Team titles with Big Mama.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 NWA Crockett Cup will take place at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, airing live on PPV. 16 teams will vie in this historic tag team tournament, with a single winner crowned that night. The Cup will be featuring NWA Tag Champs Knox and Murdoch, The Colons, The Immortals, and last year\u2019s cup winner, The Southern 6.<\/p>\n<p>Also, NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Thom Latimer will face The Man-beast Rhino. NWA also announced visiting luminaries like Gail Kim, Earl Hebner, Alex Hammerstone, and all the great stars of NWA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CEO William Patrick Corgan (<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Billy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Billy<\/a>) has made the call: at Crockett Cup 2025 in Philadelphia, it will be NWA Women\u2019s World Champion Kenzie Paige (<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenziePaige_1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KenziePaige_1<\/a> ) vs WWE (<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE<\/a>) Superstar Natalya (<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatbyNature?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NatbyNature<\/a>) for the Burke!<br \/>\u2018It\u2019s always our distinct honor to host this modern\u2026 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W0elZvYD0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/W0elZvYD0c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWA (@nwa) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nwa\/status\/1915838316525535301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38750738 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"38750738\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013\u00a0NWA\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 NWA, Natalya, WWE, and more 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 and all pay-per-view events 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>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>and NWA\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nwa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>X<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Wrestling Alliance announced that Natalya Neidhart will challenge Kenzie Paige for the NWA Women\u2019s World Championship at the Crockett Cup event on May 17 in Philadelphia, PA. As announced\u00a0in early March, WWE Star Natalya will participate in NWA&#8217;s Crockett Cup, but her opponent has not been confirmed until now. Fresh off a win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":134609,"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":[12,6,6504,317,4],"tags":[3721,6812,404,771,9216,47],"class_list":["post-134539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-north-america","category-nwa","category-women","category-wwe","tag-crockett-cup","tag-kenzie-paige","tag-natalya","tag-nwa","tag-nwa-crockett-cup","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134539","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\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134608,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134539\/revisions\/134608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}