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I agree with Westy that the wresting was WAAAYYYY Better in the NWA, but, all the guys in the NWA wound up going to the WWF. If you think about it, every major star of the NWA went to the WWF at one time or another.

The story about Vince blackballing the Cable providers is true. But stunts went back and forth with each group. WWF showed the above mentioned Survivor Series against Starcade. .

But there were incidents where they both broadcast PPV quality events for free against the other organization. NWA was airing their PPV Bunkhouse brawl, when Vince put the very first Royal Rumble on free tv. That was followed by a hugh free Clash of the Champions that topped the WWF's buyrate for WWF's Wrestlemania 4. The NWA actually did much better in their early battles. But, through attrition of superstars, WWF won the early battles until Ted Turner bought the NWA, changed it to WCW and that turned into the Monday Night Wars that almost bankrupted Vince. Had it not been for non-wrestling guys running the corporate WCW, it might have been WWF who was bought out.