NWA President Billy Corgan recently spoke with WrestleZone to hype up this weekend’s two-night NWA 75 pay-per-view, as well as discuss a wide range of topics surrounding his promotion. Highlights from the interview can be found below.
Calls the NWA touring with the Smashing Pumpkins a marketing exercise:
Well, as a marketing exercise. I think its upside is sort of mixed. It’s expensive, and you could argue you could take that same amount of money that you’re spending and use digital advertising on Instagram and Twitter and kind of achieve the same result. For us, it’s valuable because I think it allows myself and the talent to see how we integrate with the general audience.
Says he wants to talk with Live Nation about adding wrestling to upcoming tours:
So however all that adds up if it’s NWA or it’s Billy’s world somehow now it sort of seems to be working and I hope to do more of it,” he said. “I’m at a point now where I can even see a scenario where I might be able to pitch Live Nation, who I work with with the band, biggest promoter really in the world. The idea that maybe there’s a way to take wrestling out with other tours. Not necessarily my own tours, and have the wrestling be additive as part of the marketing for certain tours,” he continued. “I think we’re kind of in the neighborhood of that. So maybe it might even be turned into its own business because the integration point is a lot better than I think anybody would have imagined.
The final card for night one of NWA 75 can be found here. Check out Corgan’s full interview below.