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

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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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

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0:55.1	Hello my friends, welcome back to another one here on InSight.
1:13.1	I'm C-V-V, Chris Fanfleet, hope all is well with you.
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1:19.0	It's always such a pleasure to sit down with Billy Corgan.
1:22.3	The man pulls no punches.
1:24.6	It's always very intelligent and also a very insightful conversation.
1:29.5	Yes.
1:30.5	Pun intended.
1:31.5	It's his third time on the show the last time he was on was I think almost exactly a
1:36.2	year ago to the day, like almost to the day.
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