Todd's People - Billy Corgan's Resistance Pro Wrestling

For most consumers in the United $tate$, there seems no more perfect time to stock up on $2 waffle makers and discount cleaning supplies than the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving. Aptly titled "Black Friday", this is the one day out of the whole year when you can not only can buy your mace at Wal-Mart, but you can use it on your fellow shoppers, too. After all of the chaos of the day, it was a refreshing relief to finally get out that evening, grab a beer and watch some morons pretend to knock the shit out of other morons as yet more morons watched on, cheering.

Resistance Pro Wrestling is the latest adventure embarked upon by our favourite bald man from the 1990s, Billy Corgan. Acting as the creative director behind the scenes of Resistance Pro, Corgan is hoping to return wrestling to its halcyon days of the early 90s when it was still fake but more people seemed to give a shit. They held their first event the day after Thanksgiving, cunningly deciding to bill it as "Black Friday". Below is a firsthand account of everything I tried to avoid when I was 12 years old.

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