NWA World Title Tournament

NWA World Title Tournament
NWA World Title Tournament
	Video: Shane Douglas' speech and his subsequent throwing down of the NWA World title before proclaiming himself ECW World Heavyweight Champion
Promotion	NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling
Date	August 27, 1994
City	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Venue	ECW Arena
Attendance	1,000
Event chronology
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The NWA World Title Tournament was a live supercard held by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States-based professional wrestling promotion NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW) on August 27, 1994. The event featured a tournament for the vacant NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The commentator for the event was Joey Styles. Highlights from the event aired on the August 29, 1994 episode of ECW Hardcore TV, while the tournament final and the bout between Shane Douglas and 2 Cold Scorpio appeared on the 2012 WWE DVD and Blu-ray release ECW Unreleased: Vol 1; the bout between 911 and Doink the Clown appeared on the 2013 WWE Blu-ray release ECW Unreleased: Vol 2; and the bout between Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck and the Public Enemy was included in the 2005 compilation DVD BloodSport - The Most Violent Matches of ECW.^[2]

The event is known for the speech given by the tournament winner, ECW Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas, who dropped the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt^[3] and proclaimed the ECW Heavyweight Championship to be a world championship. Douglas' speech presaged the emergence of ECW - renamed Extreme Championship Wrestling shortly after the event - as a nationally recognized promotion and the continued decline in the power and profile of the NWA.^[4] The event has been described by WWE as "one of the most controversial incidents to ever occur at any sports entertainment event".^[1] Douglas described his throwing down of the title strap as "the defining moment for [his] career".^[5]

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^ Shane Douglas sends a message: ECW, Aug. 27, 1994, retrieved 2021-02-23
^ James Dixon; Arnold Furious; Lee Maughan (2015). The Complete WWE Guide Volume Six. Lulu.com. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-326-50746-6.
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[3] Shane Douglas sends a message: ECW, Aug. 27, 1994, retrieved 2021-02-23

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