{"id":5181,"date":"2015-04-28T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/04\/28\/billy-corgan-joins-tna-wrestling\/"},"modified":"2015-04-28T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T08:22:11","slug":"billy-corgan-joins-tna-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/04\/28\/billy-corgan-joins-tna-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Corgan Joins TNA Wrestling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2a\/Billy_Corgan_pic.jpg\/220px-Billy_Corgan_pic.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The \u201890s alternative rocker has joined forces with TNA Entertainment as a senior producer, creative and talent development, where he will create storylines and develop characters for the league\u2019s flagship program, \u201cImpact Wrestling.\u201dCorgan said in a statement that he\u2019s \u201chumbled\u201d by this new opportunity and he promises to look for the \u201cbest-of-the-best\u201d in terms of bringing new talent to the league. \u201cFor as cultures currently evolve at great speed, so must pro-wrestling meet and supersede such expectations to thrive,\u201d he said.  <!--more-->  <br \/>This isn\u2019t the first time Corgan has dipped into the world of professional wrestling. In 2011, he launched his own league, Resistance Pro Wrestling, which held events in the Chicago area. Last year, it was reported that AMC was developing a reality show around the league, but that show didn\u2019t move forward, as the network overhauled its reality programming this past October.<\/p>\n<p>Corgan spoke to the show\u2019s in-limbo status: \u201cThe AMC show revealed sub agendas that never would have surfaced without the pressure of the cameras,\u201d he told Speakeasy in December. \u201cWe shot four episodes worth of stuff.\u00a0 When you turn around and realize that the people in the foxhole with you don\u2019t have the same intentions as you, that\u2019s a problem. I thought there was a sacrosanct relationship at the core of the company, and when I discovered that wasn\u2019t true, there was only one way for me to go. AMC helped provide an edit of the show to shop elsewhere, with the hope that they\u2019ll get a return on their investment and we\u2019ll get a new network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Smashing Pumpkins lastest album, \u201cMonuments to an Elegy,\u201d was released in December and even though Corgan has made negative comments about the band\u2019s current fanbase, his involvement with TNA won\u2019t detract from his musical endeavors. \u201cWhat\u2019s great is the entire TNA organization stands in full support of my music life with the Smashing Pumpkins,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpact Wrestling\u201d is currently broadcast on Destination America, a part of Discovery Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201890s alternative rocker has joined forces with TNA Entertainment as a senior producer, creative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}