A year and a half ago, Smashing Pumpkins frontman and lifelong wrestling fan Billy Corgan launched his very own indie pro wrestling promotion, Resistance Pro. (There's also been talk of a Resistance Pro reality show.) And now, Corgan has taken the logical next step to promote his company: Appearing in a goofy local-TV commercial for a Chicago furniture store, one that also includes the wrestlers in his employ beating down a pair of small-time furniture barons. A few things about this: As local-TV commercials go, this is a pretty great one. I don't recognize any of the wrestlers in it, which makes me question my own indie-wrestling-fan bona fides. And Corgan commits to this thing completely, putting as much energy into his screen presence as he did in, say, the "Tonight Tonight" video. Watch it below.
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(via Chicagoist)
The next Resistance Pro show goes down at a VFW Hall in Lockport, IL this Sunday afternoon. If I still lived in Chicago, I would totally go.
