Top NWA Star Trevor Murdoch recently had a conversation with PWTorch on a variety of topics such as how the first EmPowerrr Event had women from other wrestling promotions all over the world and how Billy Corgan had to pay those women wrestlers, which was a huge amount.
Trevor Murdoch said:
“It’s a subject where, I’m going to get heat in whatever direction. Any answer, other than, ‘we are going to do it,’ I don’t think would have satisfied anybody. First off, look at the first EmPowerrr. We had a quarter of our girls on that show. We had girls from all over the globe, we had girls from other companies. We had different working relationships with other companies when we did that first EmPowerrr. Number two, when you look back at the first EmPowerrr, how many talents we had on that card for that show, there were a lot of wrestlers on that show. A lot of people don’t understand, someone had to pay that bill. Someone has to pay those girls, as much as Tony (Khan) wanted to chime in and say he paid for Leyla, which is great, but Billy covered the rest of that shit. That’s a huge bill.”
Trevor Murdoch also spoke about how you can't just book every great female wrestler out there for the second EmPowerrr Event and how there are a lot of factors that goes into the decision and there a lot of factors as well that goes into making EmPowerrr a successful event.
Trevor Murdoch said:
“When it came down for the second EmPowerrr, there isn’t a book out there that just has every great female wrestler out there and we can just look at it and go, ‘We get this person, that person, this person.’ Granted, I know there is a ton of fans out there that can give me a list of 10 or 20 people that they know in their area that can fit on that show. In the same sense, I understand you’re fans of those women, but maybe they haven’t done what they need to do to stand out to get the attention that they need to. There are so many factors in there into what was said in that statement. It’s easy for people to jump on the negative, ‘you guys are assholes,’ there are a lot of factors going into the decision and a lot of factors going into EmPowerrr to make it successful.”
Trevor Murdoch then spoke about how a lot of the women wrestlers who were booked on their first event weren't available this time around as they were already booked to compete in other companies that did not allow them to wrestle for them.
Trevor Murdoch said:
“Some of the people who are publicly making comments and are upset and it was part of their decision, privately, they were burying the whole thing. That’s what makes me shake my head. Publicly, people want to say one thing, but privately, they were saying the opposite. I’m not going to air someone’s dirty laundry out. I heard it from the horse’s mouth. There are so many factors that go into it. Not to mention, some of the girls that we booked for the last EmPowerrr, the dates didn’t match up. They were already booked other places or were already with another company where they’re not allowed to wrestle for us. Why think of all that shit? Why put all that into consideration? It’s easy to look at a rich musician and bury him for one single comment and not put any thought in it. So many more dates and women were free and available because there weren’t as many promotions running. Now, we’re back into the thick of it and we’re working in front of crowds. People are trying to get jobs in other places. A lot of factors went into it and a lot were out of our control.”
You can check out Trevor Murdoch's comments at this link. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
