Billy Corgan: The CW Did Not Have A Problem With Cocaine Spot At NWA Samhain (original) (raw)

NWA President Billy Corgan dismisses the rumors that The CW had an issue with the cocaine spot at NWA Samhain.

At NWA Samhain, James Mitchell snorted something off a spoon, and it was clearly meant to be cocaine. Nick Hausman of Haus of Wrestling reported that the spot could have a negative impact on NWA’s TV deal with The CW.

In an interview with Jeremy Lambert & Joel Pearl on In The Weeds, Billy Corgan discussed the controversial spot and NWA’s relationship with CW. He stated that they did not have an issue with it. (H/t Jeremy Lambert of Fightful for the transcription)

“After the ‘cocaine spot’ where Sinister Minister and his hot minions were snorting sugar off a table in Cleveland, that story took a life of its own,” Billy Corgan said. “‘NWA is going to lose its CW deal, they’ve lost their CW deal.’ About four days after the event, CW, I don’t want to say who, but certainly one of the top people at CW called me and said, ‘What is this all about?’

“I said, ‘I don’t know. No one for your world has reached out to me.’ He said, ‘There is no problem over here. We’re reading all these articles and we don’t understand what the issue is.’ ‘So, to be official, there is no issue with what we did?’ ‘No, we think it’s funny.’ There was no issue. It was a completely invented story by either a troll inside the company, a leaker or something.”

Billy Corgan Found ‘Pearl-Clutching’ Amusing

Billy Corgan continued by stating that he did not like all the “pearl-clutching” about the spot. He noted that the fake rumors that it impacted NWA’s deal with The CW annoyed him as well.

“As I joked about at the time. A fake drug spot versus a cheese grater to somebody’s head. That’s okay in professional wrestling,” Blly Corgan said. “I didn’t like all the pearl-clutching. The fake rumors that we had endangered our CW spot, that was certainly annoying because it was putting a perception out there that we had done something wrong when we had never done anything wrong as far as CW was concerned.

“If people took offense to the spot, that’s fine; that’s wrestling, but the pearl-clutching from the crowd, that I found really amusing.”

NWA announced their streaming deal with The CW in February 2024. NWA Powerrr continues to air on The CW website.