NWA ‘When Our Shadows Fall’ PPV Main Event Confirmed, National Title Vacated
The main event for NWA “When Our Shadows Fall” has been set.
On the season finale of NWA Powerrr, former National Champion Trevor Murdoch won a battle royal to earn the right to challenge NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis at the pay-per-view on June 6. Murdoch and Aldis have been engaged in a feud throughout this season of NWA Powerrr.
.@TheRealTMurdoch stands tall in the 14-man Battle Royale!
He will go onto face @RealNickAldis at #WhenOurShadowsFall on June 6
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Speaking of the National Championship, the title is now vacant. The reigning champion, Chris Adonis gave up the gold in order to participate in the battle royal Murdoch won. (Only non-champions could compete.) Adonis defeated Murdoch to win the title in March.
In a recent interview with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard, Aldis discussed how he has flourished as “the guy people to hate”:
There’s only so much business you can do in being the proud world champion, and ultimately the money is in the people wanting to see you get beat. So in my mind, once we had the pandemic and once we realized that through necessity as much as anything else—I’ve been the champion for a hell of a long time—I figured that it was time to start rubbing that in people’s faces a little bit because one way or another, people love to knock you down a peg or two.”
“So, my feeling on booking or creative is—there’s no point of me swimming upstream. The chances are, and that’s where social media can be very useful,” Aldis noted, “because obviously, you can sort of take a cross-section of sentiment and get a general idea of where people’s heads are at. Then I just sort of take it and lean that way with it and go, ‘OK naturally there’s some resentment starting to emerge, so let’s go with it.’ Let’s embrace it, let’s go into it. It’s business, and look, I like being the guy people love to hate. It’s a good place to be.”