Notable Promotion Looking To Partner With WWE?

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NWA owner and promoter Billy Corgan has revealed that he’s open to working with WWE under the Triple H regime.

WWE’s management team received a huge shake-up in July, with Vince McMahon retiring, Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan becoming co-CEOs and Triple H taking over creative as the Chief Content Officer.

Speaking with Metro, Billy Corgan argued that a working relationship between WWE and NWA would be beneficial for both sides.

Noting that he’s ‘optimistic’ about the companies potentially working together in the future, despite previous talks regarding a deal to feature NWA on the WWE Network fizzling out, Corgan said:

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“If you’re a fan, it’s an exciting time! Things are wide open again as professional wrestling really was. The last 20 years is really an aberration to the way the professional business ran.

“Before the McMahons really took power of the wrestling culture for 20 years, wrestling was pretty much a wide open business.

“You might see a different flexibility with WWE as far as other company’s go, moving into the future. Certainly my conversations in the past with Triple H would indicate there’s a different degree of openness then maybe there would have been in the regime that was running things before.”

WWE appears to be working with NJPW in some capacity, with Karl Anderson still holding the NEVER Openweight Championship following his WWE return on the October 10 edition of Raw. For an update on Anderson’s NJPW future click here.

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