Billy Corgan Says NWA Will Do Another Empowerrr PPV, Why It’s Not Happening This Year

Billy Corgan shot down reports that there won’t be another NWA Empowerrr while explaining why it’s not happening this year. This year’s NWA 74 will not have an Empowerrr PPV associated with it, and Corgan told NBC Sports Boston that he does plan to do another one but that there aren’t enough female free agents to do it this year. You can check out the highlights below, per Fightful:

On why there won’t be an Empowerrr PPV this year: “I saw a headline recently that said I don’t plan on bringing [Empower] back and that’s totally false. What it was is that we looked at Empowerrr for this NWA 74 pay-per-view and unfortunately there’s an opacity of female talent available on the open market because there is such a demand for female talent both with WWE and AEW. There just isn’t a ton of free agent talent available that can work at the television level. Is there enough talent, absolutely, but you’re talking about putting people on international pay-per-view where you’re asking fans to pay money. You’re gonna put on an all female pay-per-view, by the way let’s all remember that [if] that PPV doesn’t go well and you put people in positions they are not ready for, it’s gonna blow back on those talents and the company.”

On planning to run another Empowerrr eventually: “We will definitely run another Empowerrr pay-per-view, absolutely. Hopefully next year. It’s just one of those things where it has to be the right time. Look at all of the people under contract with WWE and look at all of the people under contract with AEW and you recognize probably 80-90% of the top female talent is already under contract with those companies.”