Tony Khan says he spoke with Billy Corgan after introducing the AEW National Championship:

“I ended up having a nice conversation about it with the president of the NWA, Billy Corgan. The NWA National Championship has a great history of its own. When we created a National Championship, I saw NWA wrestlers saying, ‘We have a National Title.’ AEW is a separate company and we have our own lineage.

I have a lot of respect for him and what he’s doing. I love the traditions of pro wrestling and I had a nice talk with Billy. We haven’t talked in a long time and it was good for him to do this. I respect him and the NWA. We’re trying to do something different here. We brought pro wrestling back to TBS, but there are a lot of promotions that had history on TBS before, one of them being the NWA. I think it’s great that Billy is trying to keep that tradition alive and revive it. We had a really nice talk about this.

To any wrestlers anywhere in the world—particularly in the NWA—you might be happy to hear Billy and I had a nice talk about this. I’m sure he would say the same.”

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