page_title: NWA New Years Clash
section_title: Storylines
hierarchical_section_title: NWA New Years Clash / Production / Storylines
caption_attribution_description: English: Nick Aldis as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion at an NGW show in Newport, Tennessee, on April 22, 2018.
context_page_description: The NWA New Years Clash, part of the NWA Pop-Up Event series, was a professional wrestling supercard show that took place on January 5, 2019 at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center in Clarksville, Tennessee. This was the second event produced directly under the National Wrestling Alliance banner since Billy Corgan became the new owner of the organization in May 2017, following the NWA 70th Anniversary Show. The event was co-produced with Tried-N-True Pro Wrestling based in Tennessee.
  In the main event of the seven-match show, reigning NWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis successfully defended the championship against James Storm. Other notable matches saw Willie Mack defend the NWA National Championship against Matt Cross and NWA World Women's Champion Jazz lose to Allie by disqualification and thus retained her championship. David Arquette and Tim Storm defeated The Kingdom of Jocephus, after which Jocephus had all his hair shaved off. The War Kings qualified for the 2019 Crockett Cup and Crazzy Steve won the TNT Championship.
context_section_description: The New Years Clash event featured seven professional wrestling matches scripted by the NWA and TNT,  with some of wrestlers involved in scripted feuds leading to the matches. The wrestlers portray either heels (those that play the part of the "bad guys"),  faces ('the "good guy" characters) or "Tweeners" (who straddle the definition of Face of Heel) as they perform in and out of the ring. As the NWA did not have a television outlet during the build-up to the event most of the storyline build as well as the promotional efforts were done via social media such as Twitter (#NWAPopUp), press releases, press conferences, or the NWA's regular "Ten Pounds of Gold" YouTube series.
  Nick Aldis won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for the second time on October 21, 2018, when he defeated Cody for the championship in the main event of the NWA 70th Anniversary Show. In December 2018 the "New Years Clash" event was announced and revealed that James Storm would be getting a championship match in his hometown against Aldis. Over the following weeks both Aldis and Storm hyped the upcoming match via videos posted by the NWA on their social media accounts.
  One of the most publicized storylines leading up to New Years Clash involved actor-turned-wrestler David Arquette. In 2018 Arquette began wrestling on the independent circuit. In November he worked wrestled in a "death match" against Nick Gage. During that match Arquette was cut in the neck by Gage, causing him to bleed profusely. Arquette was hospitalized after the match, requiring surgery to stop the bleeding. In the aftermath wrestler Jocephus, who portrays a cult leader like figure offered Arquette "Absolution" if he joined the Kingdom of Jocephus, a request Arquette turned down. After taunting each other over social media the NWA announced that Arquette and a partner of his choice would wrestle Jocephus and a partner at New Years Clash, with both men putting their hair on the line. Jocephus' partner was a bald, silent woman simply referred to as "The Spiritual Advisor", while Arquette did not reveal who his partner was prior to the show.
  It had been announced prior to the show that Maxx Stardom, Rosemary and the War Kings (Crimson and Jax Dane) would all wrestle at the show but did not announce their opponents prior to the event starting. Rosemary did not wrestle at the event with no explanation being given for the change.
caption: Nick Aldis, holding the NWA World Heavyweight Champion belt
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