Billy Corgan Launches Wrestling Co

Longtime wresting fan and, of course, rock star, Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago.

Nme.com reports that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company that will debut on November 25 at Chicago’s Excalibur Club.

Corgan told Fox News Chicago:

"I’ve been involved sort of behind the scenes with pro wrestling for about a decade and made a lot of friends in the business.

"It’s a very insular business and it’s a long story, but I essentially got involved with some brothers who had a wrestling promotion. We decided to form our own promotion and we’re going to try to bring back the glory days."

Thanks for the report to Andrew Vaughan, Gibson.com.

Comments

[nailsarecruel]

what?

[ninfan200]

i'm weirdly interested

[Pagan_Poetry]

The name Smashing Pumpkins now takes on a-whooooole-nother meaning



*disclaimer: Yes I know the name means smashing as in "fine" like "god DAMN those pumpkins are smashing*

[smittyanthrax]

Didnt corgan break an acoustic guitar over jeff jarretts head a few years ago on wcw?

[whoomit]

Eh?

[Kilimacory]

bizarre.

[Gman400]

Random but kind of cool since the WWE hasn't been good since 2003. Maybe Corgan can save pro wrestling haha.

[Taargus]

I'm so confused.

[fede01_8]

will be creative director and come up with storylines

what? they don't fight for real? O_o

[ne14t]

fede01_8 wrote:

will be creative director and come up with storylines

what? they don't fight for real? O_o

And there is no Easter Bunny either!

[cuttlefish360]

Looks like it has potential. Wonder whether Necro Butcher can actually do a non-hardcore match :P

[alestorm666]

Aslong as Oceania is good, I couldn't care less.

[xraycat]

ne14t wrote:

fede01_8 wrote:

will be creative director and come up with storylines

what? they don't fight for real? O_o

And there is no Easter Bunny either!

And Slash is one of our parents!

[jac254]

smittyanthrax wrote:

Didnt corgan break an acoustic guitar over jeff jarretts head a few years ago on wcw?

More like 10 years ago dude

[super collasal]

Gman400 wrote:

Random but kind of cool since the WWE hasn't been good since 2003. Maybe Corgan can save pro wrestling haha.

I didnt know WWE was ever good

[Underjoggle]

"maybe we can bring back the glory days."

Nope, The Macho Man's dead.

[neversleeps84]

I love the photo.

"I'm always thinking, I have many thoughts. I am a deep, insightful person. Hurry up and snap a photo of me trying to decide between a PB&J or bologna sandwiche for lunch."

[Page/Rhoads]

This could be interesting. I love wrestling. It's the only thing on TV I care about. It's a soap opera for men and dammit I love it.

[sinterpol]

Rock on!

[slaveskinJACKET]

Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...

So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.

I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.

Why is there no actual professional wrestling?

[MorbidBrain]

If Corgan replaces Vince Russo in TNA, then TNA would absoulutely ran WWE's ass over ^^

[Firebreather01]

IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMNIT!

I kid. But I still find it entertaining at times, and it it's always nice to have a huge slap in the face by nostalgia.

[BigMikeBDD]

Wrestling is still on?

[BigMikeBDD]

I have a soap opera for men. It's called the NFL except my soap opera has real life athletes. Not roided up figures pretending to be athletes. Wrestling is like a horrible acting soap opera on Telemundo except they pretend to hit each other by stomping on the ground.

[smittyanthrax]

jac254 wrote:

smittyanthrax wrote:

Didnt corgan break an acoustic guitar over jeff jarretts head a few years ago on wcw?

More like 10 years ago dude

I havent watched in 10 years as its shite.

[Noob_Brood]

What 'chya gonna do brother, when you eat a payote sandwich and try and make money? - Hulk Hogan

Billy's answer....wrestling. Interesting. Taking finance advice from Jake the Snake Roberts instead of....I don't know...Warren Buffet?

[howamidriving?]

slaveskinJACKET wrote:

Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...


So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.

I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.

Why is there no actual professional wrestling?

it probably has something to do with real wrestling being quite possibly the most dull thing ever

[slaveskinJACKET]

howamidriving? wrote:

slaveskinJACKET wrote:

Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...


So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.

I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.

Why is there no actual professional wrestling?
it probably has something to do with real wrestling being quite possibly the most dull thing ever

It's still a skill sport.

And it's way more entertaining than 'professional' poker, and that shit's on TV every single night, as well as the occasional bowling and darts tournaments.

I guess maybe poker's more appealing to the general public, since anybody can do play and anybody can win. It's just a game of luck, with skill and knowledge only needed to win big (and more consistently).

I'm not saying I would watch professional wrestling, but it's just weird to me that it's an actual sport and it has absolutely no market. It's way more interesting than watching bowling, darts, or poker, which seem to have a semi-loyal fanbase.

[slaveskinJACKET]

^^There's a few extra words in there, but you know what I mean.^^

[Root Beer]

slaveskinJACKET wrote:

howamidriving? wrote:

slaveskinJACKET wrote:

Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...


So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.

I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.

Why is there no actual professional wrestling?
it probably has something to do with real wrestling being quite possibly the most dull thing ever

It's still a skill sport.

And it's way more entertaining than 'professional' poker, and that shit's on TV every single night, as well as the occasional bowling and darts tournaments.

I guess maybe poker's more appealing to the general public, since anybody can do play and anybody can win. It's just a game of luck, with skill and knowledge only needed to win big (and more consistently).

I'm not saying I would watch professional wrestling, but it's just weird to me that it's an actual sport and it has absolutely no market. It's way more interesting than watching bowling, darts, or poker, which seem to have a semi-loyal fanbase.

I personally would pick poker over wrestling any day. But that's just me.

[shwilly]

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

The name Smashing Pumpkins now takes on a-whooooole-nother meaning



*disclaimer: Yes I know the name means smashing as in "fine" like "god DAMN those pumpkins are smashing*

Let's hope you didn't steal that joke from Celebrity Deathmatch, because it's really not that good...

[Pagan_Poetry]

shwilly wrote:

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

The name Smashing Pumpkins now takes on a-whooooole-nother meaning



*disclaimer: Yes I know the name means smashing as in "fine" like "god DAMN those pumpkins are smashing*Let's hope you didn't steal that joke from Celebrity Deathmatch, because it's really not that good...

God, I hope not. I mean, it IS a terrible joke, but I don't even watch that show, so if I did it was indirectly. That doesn't bode well ahaha

[Tster]

I think that's pretty cool, why not! Fun times! Woo!!

[fuzzystig]

just when i thought he couldn't get any more idiotic...

[lank81]

This can go two ways - Totally Awesome or a Horrible Fast Paced Death. I'm hoping for the former. I love wrestling but I don't know about Billy running the show. It's like Kevin Bacon or Bruce Willis trying to be a musician.

[TJ1991]

Makes sense really, he's a lifelong wrestling fan. Maybe he'll be able to do things properly, like WWE has been failing at for a good 8 years.

[Pagan_Poetry]

lank81 wrote:

This can go two ways - Totally Awesome or a Horrible Fast Paced Death. I'm hoping for the former. I love wrestling but I don't know about Billy running the show. It's like Kevin Bacon or Bruce Willis trying to be a musician.

.... Kevin Bacon IS a musician...

[Mainer]

TNA is pretty good, WWE blows, I watch more indy stuff on youtube haha. Hopin' this'll be good

[Sparky-MMA]

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

lank81 wrote:

This can go two ways - Totally Awesome or a Horrible Fast Paced Death. I'm hoping for the former. I love wrestling but I don't know about Billy running the show. It's like Kevin Bacon or Bruce Willis trying to be a musician.

.... Kevin Bacon IS a musician...

so is Bruce Willis

[ColdbringeR]

I would say Corgan has lost his mind, but that happened long ago.

[swave75]

His own wrestling company...why not?

[dollyDagger]

haha. awesome.

[cptcomet]

I can see Billy being involved in Wrestling than Bruce Willis being involved with music! Saying that thought Bruce Willis is awesome at everything..

[Flynn Oslo]

"We decided to form our own promotion and we’re going to try to bring back the glory days."

Sounds like the Smashing pumpkins

[DaniArrow]

ninfan200 wrote:

i'm weirdly interested

me too! ^^

[bassmike200]

xraycat wrote:

ne14t wrote:

fede01_8 wrote:

will be creative director and come up with storylines

what? they don't fight for real? O_o

And there is no Easter Bunny either!


And Slash is one of our parents!

Everyone knows Slash isn't real either!

[myfirebird]

Corrigan should enter the ring on behalf of his company.He could use a good #ss kicking