Billy Corgan has secured a deal for NWA programming to appear on Roku.
National Wrestling Alliance owner Billy Corgan was a recent guest on Busted Open Radio. When asked about the new Roku deal, Corgan revealed that they have been in negotiations to make this happen for quite some time.
“If anybody might have seen just the other day, it came out that we’ve signed our first real true first-run television deal for NWA Powerrr with Roku, the number one streaming platform in North America,” Billy Corgan said. “This is a deal that took at least six to nine months to put together, and I think it’s the first significant NWA TV deal probably since the days of NWA-TNA.
“And if you wanna go back further than that, because obviously, Jeff Jarrett was trying to build up TNA, you’d have to go back to somewhere into the 90s, so this is a huge deal for us and it’s total credit to our team… We worked very hard as a team to put this together, so credit to our great team for sticking with it.
Billy Corgan believes NWA is a promotion that can compete at the highest levels
“Many people have doubted the NWA’s progress, doubted the NWA’s game plan, which I said many, many times was gonna take a long time. I wasn’t just gonna throw money at it and try to be a puffed-up indie. I wanted to run an international promotion that was gonna compete at the highest levels. And I think, as you’ve seen recently, when the WWE allowed Nattie to come in and wrestle for the NWA at Crockett Cup.
“I think that shows you that we’ve earned our flowers once again in the business and there’s such a great will around the NWA because the wrestling ecosystem as you see with WWE and now with AAA, and with TNA, you see this wrestling ecosystem open up which you know, on your show many times, I predicted this is where the business was going and so here we are.
“We are here at the optimal way for the business to be generated back towards the fans. In many ways, it harkens back to the territorial era, where really it was about the fans and letting the fans sort of tell promotions what they really need, and now you’re seeing the benefit of that.” [H/T: Fightful]
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