NWA star Aron Stevens talks company's fit in wrestling landscape, previews NWA 75 show
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The National Wrestling Alliance will hold its 75th-anniversary show over the course of two nights on Saturday and Sunday in what will be the start of a busy few days in the industry leading into next month.
NWA will not be the only show pro wrestling fans will be tuned into over the course of the weekend. All Elite Wrestling will host All In in London on Sunday, WWE will have Payback on September 2, and AEW will be back on September 3 with All Out.
NWA, with its lengthy history in the pro wrestling industry, is a part of the vast landscape. Fans can tune in almost any day of the week to find some kind of genre of wrestling that they’re into and be satisfied.
Aron Stevens, one of the stars on the NWA roster who was known as Damien Sandow, in WWE, described the promotion as the "tomato soup and grilled cheese" in a recent interview with Fox News Digital ahead of NWA 75.
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Aaron Stevens manages Blunt Force Trauma (NWA/Hiban Huerta)
"There’s only one style of wrestling in my opinion, and that is getting people to pay money to watch you, and in order to do that, they have to be invested in you," he said. "A lot of the in-ring stuff, the art of it, is kind of disappearing, because we’re sacrificing a lot of long-term psychology, like in long-term storytelling for 10-, 15-, 20-second videos on Instagram and highlight reels so you can tweet and get 1,000 likes – ‘Oh, look at the flip you did and this and that.’ Well, OK, look at the flip you did, but then two seconds after, the crowd was sitting on their hands. OK, you know what? Cool, whatever. If that’s your thing, fine. There are very


