Former WWE Writer Talks His Dream Job & More
Former WWE writer Andrew Goldstein has penned an article for Complex taking a look back at his dream job as WWE Writer as well as the journey’s of four celebrities who have worked in WWE creative:
- Patrice O’Neil
- Freddie Prinze Jr.
- Bob Mould
- Billy Corgan
Here is a excerpt from the article taking a look at Billy Corgan’s current position as Senior Producer of Creative and Talent Development for TNA:
Billy Corgan
Smashing Pumpkins leading man Billy Corgan isn’t your typical rock star; He’s as rabid a wrestling fan as any angst-ridden, newly pubescent teen was for his music in the ’90s. As such he found himself in 2004 at the early shows of an upstart wrestling outfit called Total Nonstop Action (TNA) based out of Tennessee. The company would later go on to become WWE’s modern-day chief rival, though one with a much smaller budget than WCW in the ’90s. Still, small budget or not, TNA to this day has a weekly, national presence on your cable dial where Billy Corgan currently holds the position of Senior Producer of Creative and Talent Development.
The position was born out of the relationships and associations Corgan made while attending independent wrestling shows around the country. When Corgan started his own wrestling company in 2011, Resistance Pro Wrestling, he pitched TNA head Dixie Carter on the possibility of his company acting as TNA’s minor league affiliate. Nothing came from that suggestion, but as Corgan put it on Talk is Jericho, “the seed was planted in her mind.” In 2015, he was officially asked to join the TNA creative team. “Usually it’s somebody like me trying to get thru the door, and somebody going ‘you don’t really belong here, you’re not of this world.’ So to be invited in has been incredible.” As perhaps the highest-profile person to embrace a full-time behind-the-scenes wrestling position, Corgan’s example looks to open the doors for other celebrities interested in turning something “fake” into something very real.
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