Trevor Murdoch is siding with Billy Corgan regarding why NWA Empowerrr 2 didn’t take place earlier this year.
Current NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch recently sat down with Steve Fall of NBC Sports Boston to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about Billy Corgan’s reasoning for not having an NWA Empowerrr 2 due to a lack of overall talent available to bring in, Murdoch agreed with him.
“I think we’ll see that event again. It was successful. And it was a great event. I actually looked back. I was at a table, and I watched the whole show from start to finish, and I thought that ladies did a great job,” Trevor Murdoch said. “Also, with that being said, I agree with Billy in the aspect of we tend to become fans of people. And when we become fans of those people, we tend to put horse blinders on.
“We don’t see everything sometimes in the most clear light. And at the time when we were putting the show together for The Chase [NWA 74 weekend], there wasn’t — I’m gonna get heat for this too, but shit, I’ll say it. At the time. We couldn’t find enough TV-quality talent when it came to the ladies to produce a full pay-per-view and for it to be as successful or as popular as the last one.
“We also didn’t want to go out and just throw a shit product together and say, just because we did one, we’re going to do another one. So we’re going to rush together, we’re going to find whatever we can and then disparage or ruin the reputation of the first Empowerrr. Does that make sense? It’s those WrestleManias that you watch sometimes that I know it’s WrestleMania, but Jesus Christ, they just kind of threw their shit together.
“It’s important for Billy and the NWA to put out the best quality product. So there’s nothing the matter. We’re not burying any of the ladies that are out there. We just at the time couldn’t find enough women to put together a show that held the same quality as last year.”
When it was brought up that Empowerrr used multiple women that were contracted to other promotions at the time, Murdoch said that politics in wrestling are the worst and wished that everyone would come together to help create an awesome product.
“Politics have been the worst when it comes to pro wrestling,” Trevor Murdoch admitted. “Like if we would all just chill out a little bit. And everybody kind of worked together because we’re all doing the same shit. It’s just different, different styles of it. You know what I mean?
“Man, how awesome of a product could we put together maybe once a year, if we can just put some of those differences behind us and just put on some amazing wrestling. And that’s the one good thing about Billy with NWA; he’s open to all of that. He’s open for discussion with any company. Not only to benefit just them, but it has to also benefit us too, though.”
While it wasn’t a full pay-per-view event, the NWA did host an Empowerrr-themed event in 2022. The company promoted the July 29, 2022 episode of its weekly series as an “Empowerrred Edition”, although it still featured a men’s match on the card.
Check out the full episode below, featuring the following matches:
Kenzie Paige vs. Kaci Lennox
#1 Contender for the NWA Women’s Championship
Taya Valkyrie vs. KiLynn KingNWA World Tag Team Championship
The Commonwealth Connection (Doug Williams & Harry Smith) vs. The Dirty Sexy Boys (JTG & Dango)NWA Women’s World Championship
Kamille vs. Chelsea Green
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