Resistance Pro Statement

Ok, so, I apologize for using my Twitter and alienating probably like 78% of my followers with my thoughts, er, continual thoughts on Resistance Pro; the wrestling promotion based out of Chicago that features Billy Corgan as their Creative Director. I used Twitter to create a public forum to showcase all the wrong that is Resistance Pro in the hopes that Billy would wake-up to who he is in business with.

Today I was personally attacked by the Baron Brothers and really I am just over it. These guys haven’t done a thing but spend money and buy their way into the wrestling business. The story in Business Week is awful. The story basically said they have sunk $35k into 3-shows and Billy has matched that. Right there is enough, to me, to realize why they went after Billy to be part of their fed. These two guys are just gross and sickening human beings full of negative energy and overzealous glee. These are the kind of guys that keep the wrestling business in just an awful state. These guys are indicative of the reasons I left the wrestling business a year and half ago. The grass was indeed greener on the other side.

When we did a series of angles with Billy in ECW we did it because we loved him and he loved us. We got him a ton of press and he is forever grateful to us for that. The Baron Brothers are taking advantage of him and I wish I wish I wish I wish Billy could see that but he cannot. Billy believes the best in people to a fault. These guys are no different from any promoter that has ever stiffed one of the boys, promised big pay days, lied about the houses, or skipped out on their shows before paying everyone out. It’s all BS and them using ECW to establish themselves is inhumane.

So, sorry for using Twitter to try to help a friend, however I had no other choice.

Thanks for your patience and for those 22% that got what I was saying I appreciate your support.

Now, back to normal…whatever that is

On Wrestling in 2012….

There is a fine line between real life and fiction…

The wrestling business thrives when they can pull off a “worked” shoot since it usually creates a really good buzz. Recently, CM Punk’s WWE angle tops the list of the best I have seen in years! Followed by Matt Hardy’s angle years ago that really took a shoot and categorized it as a “worked” shoot. Point being working the fans, like REALLY working them, and REALLY working the boys is TOUGH to do. When you pull it off…it’s money.

Here is the thing…these guys had a platform to do this and that makes a difference. If you have a forum or a real concept to pull off something that really questions the lines of wrestling and storyline vs. shoot then do it. HOWEVER, do it RIGHT.

The promotion based out of Chicago who has done 2 shows EVER went right for the same cliché that EVERYONE else has ALREADY done…LETS GET THE LEGACY OF THE ECW AND USE IT TO MAKE MONEY FOR OURSELVES. It’s pathetic and does nothing for the future of this business.

When Billy and I talked about this promotion and the whole concept behind it last fall while he was in Vegas I was psyched for him and everyone involved. I really thought it would be unique. Well, I was wrong and maybe Billy believed his money mark promoters that what they said was actually fact. I have no idea; we haven’t talked about it lately.

What I will say is this…I would have NEVER taken to a public forum like Twitter if I wasn’t really HURT and PISSED that I was lied to, Billy was lied to, and MORE SO the FANS were lied to.

The Chicago based promotion is NOT unique. It’s the same cookie cutter crap that EVERYONE else does.

Here is the recipe:

A money mark(s) decide(s) to play wrestling promoter and booker

Announce you are starting something NEW and DIFFERENT

Find a face for your promotion

Capitalize on said faces hard work and credibility

Pretend the press you get is from how awesome the money marks ideas are vs. the face

Find a rundown crappy building or nightclub as your “Arena”

Book some rising stars

Start a Twitter account

Have your first show

Make no money on first show

Decide to go to what everyone else goes to…ECW

Start pimping out the second coming of ECW

Run another show

Realize ECW was a legitimate promotion that money mark promoters can’t get close to replicating

Realize the fans are smarter than you

Realize you should be sitting in the crowd WATCHING the show with rest of the fans

Fold

Repeat once when you find more money

I am so sorry for Billy. This guy loves the business. He is getting SO railroaded right now.

As mentioned on this blog, and other interviews I have done in the past, Billy’s first wrestling angle was in ECW and it was booked by Tommy Dreamer and me with the blessing of Paul Heyman. What he did for ECW at the time of that angle with me was HUGE. I will never forget him doing that for the company.

In October 2008 he asked me to open his Philadelphia concert run with the Smashing Pumpkins to announce a special show he was doing (acoustic/electric) and I happily obliged. Look, times are tough and if he needed to use me to sell tickets for his band it was fine. I helped him out before by getting him mad press when he returned to do more ECW stuff at our sold-out shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York so helping again wasn’t a problem. We rocked it! I stiffed him so bad with my phone and gave him a concussion and he gave me one the next night with a guitar.

The best part about the NYC run was Courtney Love calling me thanking me for helping her friend maintain some spotlight and notoriety. Man, what a great girl and just an incredible song writer filled with passion beyond ANYTHING I have ever seen in any musician I have ever met. I am so grateful to still have her faithful dedication to life and friendship in my soul today.

See, the wrestling promotion in Chicago can’t mess with blood.

Billy isn’t a rock God to me…he is a friend….he is family…he was in my wedding…he knows my kids…and the people in Chicago crossed many lines in trying to create more press for themselves by pitting Billy and I against each other.

They tried to sell him out for what?? 10 tickets? I mean….I am a realist…Lou E. is a thing of the past…and I was thrilled to have that past and AT LEAST I had that past….

Did the guys at Resistance Pro?

No.

Will they?

No way.