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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan blends wrestling and music

An Instagram image of Billy Corgan with two of his NWA wrestlers on a recent tour of Mexico.

When asked how much rehearsal his National Wrestling Alliance stars will have with their Aussie opponents ahead of his arena rock and pro wrestling tour, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan offers a musical analogy.

"Wrestlers are trained, like a jazz musician, to improvise with anybody," the songwriter and impresario says. "You can take five wrestlers and say, 'This is what we're going to do', then put them in a room and they will talk about it. Then they will go out in the ring, without ever having touched one another, and do a 10-minute match and execute. It's amazing."

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