Smashing Pumpkins frontman and former president for Impact Wrestling Billy Corgan, had a rough time last year in terms of his former business partner. About three years ago, Billy Corgan came on board to Impact Wrestling with then owner Dixie Carter. Corgan looked to rebrand the company and change people's preception of the sport of wrestling, but Corgan and Carter had a falling out in late 2016. In November, Corgan left Impact Wrestling after the company was purchased from Anthem.
This past May, Corgan purchased NWA. The company has had the likes Ric Flair to AJ Styles with Tim Storm as the current NWA World Heavyweight champion. Corgan talked to the chicago tribune and discussed what his plans for the legendary promotion is and his sitaution regarding his former employer, Impact Wrestling. Here are some of the highlights:
His Mindset Regarding NWA's Target Audience
"We are going to target the general fan," Corgan said. "Wrestling needs to get younger in terms of the audience it's after. I think wrestling as a business a lot of times kind of shrugs its shoulders how they track the 15- to 25-year-olds. I would argue if you can't do that, you're not going to have much of a future anyway."
His Situation Regarding His Past Employer, Impact Wrestling
"The way the whole TNA thing went down, I felt pretty strongly there for a while there that maybe I should just get out of the business," Corgan said. "Like the music business, there's a lot of people in the wrestling business that aren't really interested in the business moving forward. Their interest is self-interest. Which is fine, that's capitalism. When you try to be a figure in wrestling that's actually moving the product forward out of love and good business acumen, you face a lot of strange political forces that are more about fiefdoms and the way things used to be and all kinds of weirdness that goes on."
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