GWH News and Notes: Wrestling Film Recalls Glory Days of the NWA

From Mike Mooneyham:

There was no greater organization during the glory days of professional wrestling than the National Wrestling Alliance.

As the late Hall of Fame announcer Gordon Solie was wont to say, proudly pointing to the NWA emblem in the background, ?When you see this symbol, you are assured of the optimum in professional wrestling.?

A new documentary on the storied organization does a great job in supporting that claim.

Michael Elliott, a Charlotte-based filmmaker, spent months interviewing wrestlers, promoters, journalists, historians and photographers about the NWA?s past and present. His documentary, titled ?History and Tradition: The Story of the National Wrestling Alliance,? provides an excellent chronology of the promotion and its major title.

Although the organization still exists as a splintered group of promotions under the NWA banner, the company ? at least as most longtime fans knew it ? basically ceased to exist after then-world champion Ric Flair went to New York in 1991 following a dispute with WCW executive vice president Jim Herd and took the NWA championship belt with him.

Source: http://www.gwhnews.com/2012/09/wrestling-film-recalls-glory-days-of-nwa.html

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