At NWA Samhain, the promotion made headlines when Sinister Minister James Mitchell was shown snorting what appeared to be cocaine.
After the show, reports came out saying that the spot had negatively impacted NWA's deal with the CW Network, which had not been officially announced at the time of the sport.
NWA would later announce a deal to air NWA Powerrr on the CW App.
Speaking to Jeremy Lambert & Joel Pearl on In The Weeds, Billy Corgan was asked about the spot and how their relationship with CW has been.
"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. '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.
"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. 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."
That settles that.
Along with NWA Powerrr, Corgan landed a deal for his reality series Adventures in Carnyland. Episodes premiere on the CW App on May 14th.
Fans can watch the full interview with Corgan in the video above.
