While speaking with Metro UK, Billy Corgan revealed that he is open to his NWA being used as a developmental program for WWE or AEW.
Corgan also noted that he previously had discussions with Paul Levesque (Triple H) regarding the NWA airing on the WWE Network, but it didn’t pan out.
“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,” Corgan said.
“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.”
“There are lots of opportunities there! I would say the same thing even as it pertains to AEW – AEW has a tremendous amount of talent under contract, not everybody is able to be on their main shows, there might be opportunities where they wanna send those people on a developmental level.”
Corgan continued by noting that he would work with a company even if his vision of wrestling doesn’t align with theirs.
“I don’t need somebody’s wrestling vision to align with mine if we can do good business together, and at the same time I don’t need them to agree with everything I’m doing.”
“And I’m lucky in that, when you look at the main event roster in WWE, I count some of those people among my friends, and some of those people are people I’ve worked with,” he continued.
Corgan believes WWE might be more open to the idea of working with the NWA now that Levesque is running creative instead of Vince McMahon.
“You might see a different flexibility with WWE as far as other companies go, moving into the future. Certainly, my conversations in the past with Triple H would indicate there’s a different degree of openness than maybe there would have been in the regime that was running things before.”
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