Billy Corgan is open to working with WWE or AEW to help nurture future stars as part of the National Wrestling Alliance.
The Smashing Pumpkins musician and NWA boss has been vocal about his willingness to collaborate with other promotions, and in the past he had discussions with then-NXT boss Triple H – real name Paul Levesque – about getting his promotion on the WWE Network.
He exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘It didn’t go anywhere and that was fine – very, very good discussions, very open and cool. They certainly liked what I was trying to do, and they’ve always been cool about what I was doing in the NWA, so I remain optimistic going into the future that there might be some business there to do.’
From Billy’s point of view, that could take the form of NWA serving as almost a developmental brand for certain wrestlers who are struggling for TV time, to help build them into top stars.
He added: ‘There might be economic models where they say, “Take these 10 talent, let us have an oversight position, you help develop these talents. It’d be good for the NWA, it’d be good for the WWE”.