Before the November 5 episode of “AEW Dynamite” went live, AEW President and CEO Tony Khan announced the introduction of a brand latest championship, the AEW National Championship. Khan noted that the title will probably be an homage to the NWA National Championship that was outstanding in the course of the Nineteen Eighties, which prompted some lower than savory responses from current members of the NWA roster because the NWA National Championship still technically exists to this present day. Nonetheless, those frustrations appear to have been put to rest as Khan revealed during a recent live stream on X (formerly generally known as Twitter) that he has had a really nice conversation with the President of the NWA, Billy Corgan.
“After all, the NWA National Championship has an ideal history of its own, and after we created a National Champion, I saw NWA wrestlers saying ‘Hey, we have now a National Title.’ Well AEW is a separate company, we have now our own lineage, and I’d similar to to say that Billy, I even have a number of respect for him, I even have a number of respect for what he’s doing. I actually love the traditions of professional wrestling and I had a extremely nice talk with Billy, and we hadn’t talked in an extended time so I feel it was good for him to listen to this. I respect him and I respect the NWA, and we’re attempting to do something different here. We brought pro wrestling back to TBS, but there are a number of promotions which have had an ideal history on TBS before AEW and considered one of them is the NWA. I feel it’s great Billy’s attempting to keep that tradition alive and revive it, so we had a extremely nice discuss this.”
The inaugural AEW National Champion will probably be decided on the Full Gear pay-per-view on November 22 via a Casino Gauntlet match. Five individuals have officially declared themselves for the match, those being Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, Ricochet, Kevin Knight, and “Speedball” Mike Bailey, but given the undeniable fact that Khan wants the title to be something wrestlers from every company can challenge for, there could also be some international surprises come November 22.
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