On Friday, April 18th a new NWA National Champion was crowned at the NWAEast live event in McKeesport, Pennsylvania and that new champion is former 5-time NWAEast Heavyweight Champion Crusher Hansen.

For the last few months there has been a red hot feud between then National Champion Pepper Parks and Crusher Hansen. Hansen launched several attacks on Parks from behind and began a "psychological war" on Parks. Pepper remained unfazed by the verbal assaults used by Hansen and even seemed to not let the physical attacks bother him either. Parks has been there and done that over and over again since winning the National Title last October.