How many national promotions would you want?

[Rollermacka]

Originally Posted by Curd There is something to be said for the "laboratories of democracy" argument, esp. to the extent social media makes it possible for people to have non-binding "votes" on the booking direction they've seen. It's not quite a democracy except for people "voting with their feet" or refusing to spend money on a promotion that angers them. However, the finite resources of the pro wrestling market makes it counter-productive to have a bunch of smaller feds competing when they could pool their resources to put on a better product than what you'd get with a bunch of shoestring budget feds. Crowd funding might weaken this argument in time, but that market is saturated with over-the-hill wrestlers asking for help paying healthcare.

Kinda sounds like what your talking about isn't the NWA. What your talking about is more like what the smaller promotions tried to do in 1988 with SuperClash 3. AWA, WCCW, CWA and several smaller separate promotions tried to band together and make one big show to generate interest in their product. The problem with that is exactly what you'd think it is, if I'm in charge of Company A, I would want all my guys to look strong and not lose any of their matches. Same could be said about B and C, eventually you'd all fight and argue and the arrangement would be broken up and we'd be back to square one.

[Curd]

Originally Posted by Rollermacka Kinda sounds like what your talking about isn't the NWA. What your talking about is more like what the smaller promotions tried to do in 1988 with SuperClash 3. AWA, WCCW, CWA and several smaller separate promotions tried to band together and make one big show to generate interest in their product. The problem with that is exactly what you'd think it is, if I'm in charge of Company A, I would want all my guys to look strong and not lose any of their matches. Same could be said about B and C, eventually you'd all fight and argue and the arrangement would be broken up and we'd be back to square one.

Well, they could keep things to Battle Bowl-style tag matches where different feds would have members on the same combined team.
AWA Guy 1 + WCCW Guy 1 vs. AWA Guy 2 + WCCW Guy 2
Those could be the main event attractions.

Undercard and micard matches could be same fed vs. same fed, though you could also have a Battle Bowl of midcarders with each team required to have an even mix of different feds on each side of the contest. So no matter which side wins, a minimum number of winning wrestlers would be from each fed.

[Curd]

Apparently the owner of Championship Wrestling from Hollywood announced a network of Indy feds having television broadcasts, collectively known as "United Wrestling Network", so there's cross-promotion like in the NWA but no affiliation fees.
http://www.tpww.net/2013/10/press-re...work-together/

The press release says "eight existing local companies" make up UWN, but I counted nine in the enumerated list, TEN if you also count CWH as part of UWN (that wasn't made clear).

Awkwardly written PR aside, I'm excited to see what UWN cooks up.