Madusa details her approach to being a good producer.
During an appearance on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast, Madusa spoke about her work as a backstage producer with the National Wrestling Alliance. Madusa praised NWA owner Billy Corgan’s vision for the company and is optimistic about the promotion’s future.
“I work with Billy Corgan, and what an amazing guy by the way, and he has a different vision, and it is totally old school, territory type of thing, and just real good wrestling. I know he’s fighting for and working towards good things with NWA, so hopefully we’ll see some good changes.”
Madusa said she believes in setting certain benchmarks and letting talent make the rest of the magic in between.
“Well there’s no school to be a producer, and it’s just like the business. Either you have the charisma, or you don’t. You cannot buy it, you cannot teach it, you cannot loan it, charisma is charisma and it is a gift. And some people have it and they don’t know it, so that’s where the training comes in to bring that charisma out and recognize with that person. So even being a producer is knowing how to communicate with our kids, and our students, and/or our business colleagues that we work with, right? And it’s understanding the business, it’s gotta give them room to make mistakes, and then there to communicate that mistake, I believe that. I feel that when I’m working with kids on their matches and stuff like that, is, I want to hear what they’re doing, and their idea is. I come to them, I say ‘Hey, you’ve got 10 minutes, you’re going over, what’s your finish? Okay, so…’ and then I say ‘Listen, all I want to know is kind of what your start is, your high spot in the center, and your finish. Anything in between, make magic,’ you know what I mean? That way when they tell me, kind of like the finish is, I have it down.
“So of course…matches making sense and not making sense, and if it doesn’t go accordingly, that’s what we’re sitting down and talking about, finding out why that is. Or what could we have done better? Or, why did you do this move, or why did you think this timing is not here. And a lot of it is the same, they got excited or they forget, they got kicked in the head and ‘I didn’t know where I was,’ or…a lot of it is just learning, and timing, and it is that psychology. Psychology is very hard, very hard. And it’s just knowing when to grab it, and to use it, and to work it, and to let it go, you know?”
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