Ted DiBiase Sr. reveals the reason behind the NWA’s Heel Champions

In a recent edition of his ‘Everybody’s Got A Pod’ podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase Sr. discussed Ric Flair’s challenge for the NWA Worlds title in Georgia Championship Wrestling, why the World Champions for the NWA always portrayed heel characters and other subjects.

You can watch some highlights from the podcast below:

On the NWA: “The NWA was probably the most recognized nationally as well. There was NWA, and they were different areas. Georgia, Mid-South, Florida, I can’t remember. But the way the WWE was, the East Coast. Maine and Pennsylvania and New York and, you know, big cities. But the NWA on a national scale, I mean, it was probably a more recognized World Championship than the WWF, in terms of territories. Where the NWA – if you were the NWA World Champion, you went to a different area every week. And once you’ve completed the round, you start back at the round where you started.

There’s always an NWA World Champion on the heels: “They would build their show – and the only time the NWA World Champion was a babyface would be on his home turf, wherever his home was. So for Ric Flair that would have been Charlotte. And I’m not sure he was a babyface there either. But regardless, the NWA World Champion was always a heel. Why? Because as a territory you are going to build someone up. You’re going to build up your big babyface to get the chance to wrestle the world champion and possibly beat him. That’s why the NWA World Champion was generally always a heel.”