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NWA Hard Times V
2025 National Wrestling Alliance pay-per-view event From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NWA Hard Times V was a professional wrestling event produced by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). As the name implies, it will be the fifth event in the Hard Times chronology. It took place on March 22, 2025, at the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Alabama, marking the second consecutive Hard Times event to be held in the venue. The event was aired on tape delay across six episodes of NWA Powerrr on X.
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Background
NWA Hard Times is an annual professional wrestling event produced by the National Wrestling Alliance. The inaugural Hard Times event took place on January 24, 2020, as a pay-per-view event.[1][2] As of 2024, the event has served as a television taping for NWA Powerrr under the NWA's "Signature Live Events" banner.
On December 14, 2024, at Looks That Kill, which took place at the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Alabama, the NWA announced that it would return to the venue for Hard Times V on March 22, 2025.[3][4]
Storylines
The event will feature a number professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers are portrayed as either heels (those that portray the "bad guys"), faces (the "good guy" characters), or tweeners (characters that are neither clearly a heel or a face) as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches as determined by the promotion. Storylines were played out on the twenty-second season of the NWA's weekly series, Powerrr.[5]
At Looks That Kill, Bryan Idol faced "Thrillbilly" Silas Mason in a falls count anywhere match. However, the match suddenly ended after two minutes when Idol was struck by a chair from Mason in midair while attempting a dive to the outside. The referee would award the win to Mason after determining the shot had broken Idol's clavicle, rendering him unable to continue. Mason would get on a microphone to berate Idol for his perceived weakness and cowardice.[6] On February 21, 2025, the NWA would announce a grudge match between Idol and Mason for Hard Times V.[7][8]
On December 21, 2024, the NWA announced an eight-man single-elimination tournament to determine the next challenger to the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, currently held by Thom Latimer.[9] On February 22, 2025, the promotion would announce via Instagram that the finals of the tournament, now deemed the "Dane Memorial Heavyweight Tournament" in memory of former champion Jax Dane, would take place at Hard Times V.[10]
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Four-way tag team elimination match
Dane Memorial Heavyweight Tournament
| Play-In (Shockwave, January 11) | Quarterfinals (Shockwave, January 11) | Semifinals (Powerrr, February 2) | Finals (Hard Times V, March 22) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | "Thrillbilly" Silas Mason | 8:11[15] | |||||||||||||||||
| Colby Corino | Pin | 8 | Colby Corino | Pin | |||||||||||||||
| Sam Adonis | 6:58[16] | 8 | Colby Corino | Pin | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Zyon1 | 7:51[17] | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Burchill | Sub | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Zyon | 6:42[18] | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Colby Corino | Pin | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Frank | 9:26[14] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Max the Impaler | 7:04[19] | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Frank | Pin | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Frank | Pin | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Kerry Morton | 7:01[20] | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Kerry Morton | Pin | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Wrecking Ball Legursky | 7:09[16] | |||||||||||||||||
1 ^ Zyon replaced Burchill in the match due to Burchill testing positive for a "mysterious substance" (kayfabe).
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