Billy Corgan On How NWA Competes With WWE & AEW, Tyrus As World Champion, Smashing Pumpkins

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Billy Corgan (@billy) is the lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins and also the owner and promoter of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He sits down with Chris Van Vliet the Blue Wire Studios in Las Vegas to talk about NWA 75 on August 26 & 27 in St Louis. He also discusses the growth of NWA, the decision to make Tyrus the NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, what he learned from working in TNA, becoming the subject of a Family Guy joke, will there ever be a "Rat in a Cage" match, working with Eli Drake (LA Knight) in NWA, balancing Smashing Pumpkins and wrestling, finding a media partner for NWA and much more! Sponsors: Use the code CVV to get a 50% welcome bonus at http://mybookie.ag Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com Quote I'm thinking about: TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:08.8	Hello, my friends.
0:10.3	Welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:12.9	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:14.7	Hope all is well with you.
0:16.4	Thank you so much for joining us on this one.
0:18.6	It's always such a pleasure to sit down with Billy Corrigan.
0:22.0	The man pulls no punches. It's always very intelligent and also a very insightful conversation.
0:29.5	Yes, pun intended. It's his third time on the show. The last time he was on was, I think,
0:34.9	almost exactly a year ago, to the day, like almost to the day.
0:39.7	That was episode number 3.92, if you want to go check that out. That one was done over Zoom.
0:44.9	This one was done in person at our beautiful, incredible Blue Wire Studios inside the
0:52.1	win, Las Vegas, if you haven't seen what the studio looks like.
0:55.8	Go check out, even just a clip of this video on my YouTube channel.
0:59.7	And by the way, wow, what a great transition here.
1:02.9	If you aren't yet subscribed to my clips channel, CVV clips, we just hit 300,000 subscribers last week.
1:10.2	We're at 305,000 subscribers right now.
1:13.4	Like the growth has been insane because of all of you.
1:16.7	So thank you so much.
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1:23.4	and the main channel as well, which is just called Chris Van Fleet.
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