If you're a Billy Corgan fan who also enjoys wrestling, then today is the greatest day you'll ever know: The Smashing Pumpkins leader will now serve as the senior producer of creative and talent development at TNA Impact Wrestling.
Corgan's ideas will come to life on Destination America network's Impact Wrestling starting in May, and they won't include any tired tropes. "There is a tremendous opportunity to go into really fresh, new directions," he told Variety. Later, the longtime wrestling fan added: "I think there's an endless supply of things in our culture where people are dealing with race or with gender, etc., and you can get into these things in a way that is both revelatory and enlightening. Treated the right way, ultimately, the good guy wins. The right ideas win." This actually isn't the first time Corgan has been part of the wrestling world — in recent years, he did some promotion work around the Chicago area.
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