Billy Corgan continues to make excuses for Tyrus‘ performances inside the squared circle.
National Wrestling Alliance owner Billy Corgan recently sat down with Tommy Martinez of SlamWrestling. When asked about the NWA 75 match between Tyrus and EC3, Corgan said Tyrus was more concerned about telling a compelling story and not having a “Meltzer jerk-off match.”
“Tyrus, he’s the champ versus EC3. Their history, of course, even going back to TNA but even further back to WWE developmental,” Billy Corgan said. “Sometimes when you put people in a ring who are very tight as people, they’re going to tell a very different story because the heart is there and there’s real love and deep affection between the two men and they wanted to go out and tell a good story.
“Tyrus wanted to tell a story where he went out in his shield and he did for people that complain that it wasn’t a five-star Meltzer jerk-off match, right? To me, it told a very compelling story. So, I think in that nutshell, you hear two things coming out of my mouth but, and they almost sound like they’re different things, but they’re not.
“Kamille and Markova told the best story on Night One that they could tell and they delivered, and EC3 and Tyrus told the story that they wanted to tell, and I thought it was a good story. and that’s what makes the NWA different. We’re not wrestling to impress anybody. We do professional wrestling in a way that has gotten lost over the last few years, and I’m not the one running around saying that everybody should be wrestling the way we’re wrestling.
Billy Corgan insists NWA doesn’t mean throwback
“All I’m saying is this is the way we’re going to wrestle. We’re going to wrestle in a somewhat traditional frame and that doesn’t mean ‘throwback.’ That means those people wrestled for 100 years for a reason in certain ways because it drew money and it drew the general public in because the public appreciated the storytelling, and if people wanna go back and look at Dusty versus somebody in a match in 1976 you’ll see all those matches were not match classics, but they told good stories and they drew big houses.
“So, I’m of the belief very publicly that the NWA will become the best proponent at telling those stories without being driven by the trendiness of the public, telling us who we have to be every five seconds and us worrying every five seconds what the public thinks we’re a professional wrestling company. It’s a rugged physical business and we’re going to present it that way. And as far as I’m concerned, if it’s not for the faint-hearted or you want a zillion high spots, there’s, there’s great competition out there that’s worth watching.”
Dave Meltzer responds
It didn’t take Dave Meltzer long to respond to Corgan’s statement and posted the following response on social media, tweeting out:
“Poor Billy. Doesn’t like Omega vs. Ospreay, Usos vs. Owens/Zayn, Gunther vs. Drew vs. Sheamus, Danielson vs. Zack, MJF vs. Danielson, FTR vs. Juice & Jay. Not only that, dislikes the talent in those matches. Pretty sure he’d die and go to heaven if he could get one of them on his shows,” Dave Meltzer said in a post.
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