Anyone who’s been even mildly lucid through the past few decades knows Billy Corgan as the frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins — the dress-coat-wearing, nasal-voiced alt-rocker behind undying hits such as “1979” and “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.” But for those who haven’t kept up with Corgan-centric headlines (obligatory love-and-hate public displays with Courtney Love, the erratic lineup changes in his band and becoming a voice in poetry and politics) for the past six years, Corgan has taken on a monster project: buying, resurrecting and repackaging the National Wrestling Alliance, the association founded in the 1940s that dominated the world of wrestling before the WWE captivated the collective imagination of American families…
Eva Raggio
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