Billy Corgan talks about Tyrus as a public figure and representative of the NWA.
Tyrus is the current NWA World's Heavyweight Champion and a host on Fox News' Gutfeld. Tyrus has never been shy about trying to help bring the NWA to a different audience through his appearance on Fox News, even appearing in a Super Bowl commercial with the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship.
During a recent Under The Ring podcast appearance, Billy Corgan praised Tyrus for always being a dependable talent. Asked about any negative backlash that may come from his association with Fox News, Billy says that his current World Champion has yet to cross a line where he feels it's been detrimental to the National Wrestling Alliance.
"Well, let's separate the wrestling and the personal, which isn't always easy to do. On the wrestling side, I've been very, very happy and very satisfied. I think he's done everything I've asked him to do and he's been great to work with," said Billy. "As far as Tyrus as a public person, I knew Tyrus when he was working at TNA and basically standing with his arms crossed behind Matt Hardy and holding one of the babies, right? I saw when he first started working for Fox, and we've stayed in touch through all these years. We have our own relationship. Like myself, when you're a public person, you say things that not everybody agrees with, but look, he's on one of the biggest networks in the world. He knows what he's doing. For better or for worse, he writes his own checks that way. As far as I'm concerned, he has never crossed the line to the point where it's been detrimental to the NWA. I know not everyone agrees with that opinion, but I think people have this kind of weird sliding scale because there's lots of blame to go around. When you look at the professional wrestling landscape, where people look the other way at different things, most of the heat around Tyrus is political. As a person who's been through some of those things myself, I tend not to pay a lot of attention to that stuff, not because it's not important, but because I think a lot of that stuff is — there's a lot of energy behind it, which has other agendas. It''s not really down to the individual as much as this culture war type of thing. As far as I'm concerned, we're a professional wrestling company. We're here to wrestle."
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