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Matt Cardona Ruins Latimer's Night, Violent J Pins Vampiro, May Valentine Returns | NWA Fight Size

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Robert DeFelice Oct 29, 2023 3:46AM

Here's your fight size update following NWA Samhain:

- In The headlining bout, EC3 successfully defended the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship against Thom Latimer. EC3 owes a huge debt of gratitude to Matt Cardona, whose presence may be the only reason why "The Overman" still has the gold.

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- Matt Cardona had a wild night that saw him get into a fiery verbal confrontation with Billy Corgan, lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins and the owner of the National Wrestling Alliance. Learn more here.

- Thom Latimer & Kamille cosplayed Macho Man Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth's final outfits from WrestleMania IV at Samhain. The significance of that is that was the event where Macho Man won his first WWE World Championship. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, Latimer failed to do the same on October 28.

- Blunt Force Trauma (Damage & Caranage) successfully retained their NWA World Tag Team Championship in a "Knights of the Round Table" Tables Match. They were able to retain because, despite being banned from the arena, Aron Steven snuck into the venue under the guise of being a knight and knocked out Mike Knox and Trevor Murdoch, allowing his team to put Knox through a round table.

- Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse scored the victory in the first-ever Riddle Box Match. The head Juggalo defeated Vampiro by using Vampiro's own move against him. Vampiro & La Rebelión were accompanied to the ring by Jerry Other of The Misfits.

- May Valentine returned as the backstage correspondent for the NWA after being away for the last portion of the season. She was briefly replaced by Sam Leterna who is currently doing work for IMPACT/TNA Wrestling.

- Pretty Empowered retained all the gold tonight. Kenzie Paige next has to worry about Samantha Starr. Learn more here.

- NWA Hard Times event will return in 2024. Learn more here.

- Jax Dane bested Blak Troop in a Submission Match.

- Thrillbilly Silas successfully defended the NWA National Heavyweight Championship over Chris Adonis. Silas' Southern Six cohorts, Kerry Morton & Alex Taylor, also won their match at NWA Samhain, defeating WWE legends, The Headbangers in the first Rock 'n' Roll Match. Learn about The Headbangers signing a WWE Nostalgia deal at this link.

- Colby Corino retained his NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship over Joe Alonzo in a Falls Count Anywhere bout.

- New NWA United States Tag Team Champions were crowned on the pre-show as JR Kratos & Odinson bested the former champions, Daisy Kill & Talos.

- After being on the losing end of the Ultimate Hardcore Tag Team War, Sal the Pal and Gaagz the Gymp are once again forced to be the servants of Father James Mitchell. However, later in the evening, everyone appeared to be enjoying themselves as they indulged in various different vices.

- Check out our quick-hit results for NWA Samhain at this link.

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