Dave Berkson
some month ago i was having tea at Madam Zazu in Lake Forest which is owned by former smashing Pumpkin pumpkinhead singer Billy Corgan. The workers were talking about old Billy and his plans of reviving the National wrestling Alliance as every wrestling fan of the seventies and eighties vividly recall was the only real competition for Vincent K McMahon's World Wrestling federation. the NWA was formed in 1948 and was bought off by Vince some many many moons and decades later but somehow it became available again for sale. At least the rements of it and this recent purchase by the chrome doe singer of a bad alternative ock band highlisghts the bullshit of modern day investing and economics.
Let me bring this up with a wrestling take ahhh the sale and creation of an asset like the NWA again is about as much sense as Hulk Hogan selling the New World Order to Ric Flair and somehow making a value of a long standing wrestling gimmick schtick wher ethere is no absolute value. Billy Corgan basically bought something that doesnt fucking exist anymore. Actually some old wrestle sued for the rights to the NWA some years ago and it is no more than a loose federation of minor..really small..wrestling organizations in this country that draw no more than fifty folks into their events an d have no real affiliation or united champion.
Billy Corgan is some whack job Vincent McMahon wannabee whose insane in the membrane wasting money and time devoted to fake news wrestling. Somebody could sell this clown snake oil if the word wrestling was some how attached to it. I think the obsession and fascination Billy Corgan has with pro wrestling was it is some connection to his youth and he wishes for the day all little boys and girls join hands and watch the Junkyard Dog battle Brutes Beefcake again. The problem i have noticed with Billy Corgan's past wrestling ventures in his Resistance wrestling in the Midwest was that the product and story lines were so bad. This guy is such a hardcore wrestling geek and somehow he manages some launderers to give him money for his silly projects and bad tea. there is no value in a brand of wrestling that goes back fifty years and few alive care nor remember aside from a few geeks of this fake sport. Billy Corgan will likely start another wrestling organization and he is hoping with the proliferation of thousands of unnecessary cable channels that one will decide to air his
garbage and he can sell ore garbage and snake oil in advertising for a channel that would have 1300 viewers at any one time. The NWA was confusing back then and makes no sense now as pundits have written in recent weeks explaining exactly what the NWA was and it was not a wrestling promotion. Billy though is a magician and may have something up his sleeve and some patent rights and ability to sue the fancy pants off Vince McMahon and his wrestling monopoly and perhaps funding of regional wrestling organizations and a break up of the WWE as a mom Bell type entity may and way to destroy the arrogance and jerkdom of Vincent K McMahon. if this were to happen then Billy should be heralded as a knight in shining armor instead of a pumpkin head wrestling dork.
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