Billy Corgan: Empowerrr 2 Won't Happen Unless It's A World-Class Event

Billy Corgan: We Set A High Standard, Empowerrr 2 Won’t Happen Until We Can Provide A World-Class Event

Billy Corgan says he’s still interested in bringing Empowerrr back and doesn’t understand why people want to turn the situation into a negative.

During a recent interview with Steve Fall for NBC Sports Boston, Billy Corgan was asked about the reaction to recent comments from himself and Trevor Murdoch about why NWA hasn’t produced Empowerrr 2 yet. Corgan said the reaction is interesting and wants to make sure the next one is a world-class success just like the inaugural one.

“I’m really intrigued by the interest in Empowerrr. We continue to want to do it and continue to have discussions with other companies about working together to create a fresh Empowerrr [event]. Last time I talked about it I created some headlines because people took umbrage with the fact — in fact, I had Maria Kanellis, who I’ve known for many years and I love Maria — but even Maria Kanellis called me out saying ‘We have women…’ and da da da… I think every company has the right to decide their level of standard, and when you create a world-class event like Empowerrr — and it was a world-class event — we’ve set a very, very high standard of what you should expect.

“Of course, there are plenty of great professional women’s wrestlers in the world. Can they wrestle the NWA style and then carry a three-hour pay-per-view? Can they move the case of women’s wrestling, not just in wrestling but in terms of international media, forward? These are my concerns. Everybody has their own version of it, that’s my version of it and I’m still on that. Until we can provide a world-class event with some of the best professional wrestlers in the world, of course in this case, female, on the card, then we won’t do it.”

Corgan went on to note that he believes not running an event unless it meets those standards is a positive and doesn’t get why others are trying to twist it into a negative.

“And all of this weird howling that goes on around it, it’s very strange to me because you’re taking a positive and making a negative out of a positive. That’s so weird to me. Why would you take a positive — by the way we put Empowerrr as the first night of a two-night anniversary, and it drew. People cared. What if it didn’t? What if it did horrible numbers, what if the matches were bad. So you create a high watermark, you do something beautiful and you make a big, big statement and then it turns into a weird negative where somehow I’m running from it. I’m not running from anything, I’m talking about my reasons why we haven’t done it again and I continue to explore those opportunities, that’s it. It’s not more complicated than that.”