XPW Dvds(for wrestlecrap purposes)?

[The Line]

I've always heard about XPW, but have never watched mroe than about 5 mintues first hand. Various websites have dozens of DVDs(both the Big Vision and original versions), and even my closest best buy(who's wrestling DVD section blows chunks, for the record) has the season 1 DVD.

So, are they even worth it, even just for laughs?

[heyguesswhatidid]

The season 1 is worth it for all the garbage and it's cheap for 10 hours of stuff.

[Reverend BTY]

I think so. If you can get into some wacky, sometimes shitty, ECW-esque wrestling than get it cheap. Hostile Territory was their east coast debut show and probably their best. Random fact, I'm pretty sure Shark Boy appears on one of the DVDs. I think it's Exit Sandman.

God the fact that I remember this shit is sad.

[slasher911]

Watch it for The Messiah, Altar Boy Luke, Homeless Jimmy, Johnny Webb and nothing else.

[YouStayClassy]

Ahh, Homeless Jimmy. Good times.

[Jock Ass]

There's always the one where New Jack threw Vic Grimes from the scaffolding.

[heyguesswhatidid]

scorpio1976 said:

There's always the one where New Jack threw Vic Grimes from the scaffolding.

That's Free Fall.

You're better off buying "Doing Time With New Jack" it has an awesome shoot and that match.

[Dragonfly]

XPW is a real guilty pleasure of mine. Sure it sucks, but it's a "fun" kind of suck. I suggest you try the first season set along with the "Best of the Black Army" disc first. The former will give you a good feel for the "XPW style" (it also helps "clear up" a few things from WSX), while the latter showcases the characters and writing. The "Black Army" disc also features the infamous "XPW Japan" angle with Atsushi Onita and Sabu, which is easily one of my favorite wrestling angles ever. (And yes, I'm being serious.) I'd stay away from anything from the "All New XPW" phase though. It is really, really boring. Shane Douglas isn't that great of a booker.

[anticonscience]

I actually bought the season 1 DVD since it was so cheap and had so much stuff on it but honestly, I'm not a fan of the half an episode I watched so far since as it was a syndicated TV show, it was edited and they didnt bother unediting the DVD

[Jock Ass]

heyguesswhatidid said:

scorpio1976 said:

There's always the one where New Jack threw Vic Grimes from the scaffolding.

That's Free Fall.

You're better off buying "Doing Time With New Jack" it has an awesome shoot and that match.

Sorry I couldn't remember the name....had a few to drink tonight.

And...I do have Doin' Time With New Jack as well. It's worth the viewing.

[Virt McGirt]

Only if you can find them dirt cheap, my cousin gave me an XPW DVD like 4 years ago, and still, I feel ripped off ;D

[Styx Cover Band]

I have about 9 early XPW shows on VHS (remember those). Not very good at all, I don't remember too many good matches and the good ones usually had Messiah(haven't watched the tapes in a few years though). At the time CZW and IWA-MS were putting on better (and more violent) shows. I remember watching Exit Sandman, because they supposedly had the "first" exploding ring dm in US, and they held the show in some type of sports stadium that was empty. People rip IWA-MS all the time for having shows that draw 50 and the stands are empty, well image a small empty stadium for a show.

[Michael Coello]

I had asked about finding a good XPW DVD a year back, and the unanimous answer I got back was "Good? XPW? BWAHAHAHAHA!"

[Stab Sword]

I threw the DVD in the garbage after watching 3 episodes cause it was so horrible and it literally made me constipated (that or the chinesse food I had)

[The Wrestling Rambler]

I found the first season of XPW at my local HMV for only 8 pounds. Guess thats about $16. Is that dirt cheap enough to buy?

[Celgress]

They are worth it; at least from a sick comedic POV.

[Dynamite Kid]

XPW was what ECW detractors thought ECW was. Garbage wrestling.

[kingoftheindies]

ariata said:

XPW is a real guilty pleasure of mine. Sure it sucks, but it's a "fun" kind of suck. I suggest you try the first season set along with the "Best of the Black Army" disc first. The former will give you a good feel for the "XPW style" (it also helps "clear up" a few things from WSX), while the latter showcases the characters and writing. The "Black Army" disc also features the infamous "XPW Japan" angle with Atsushi Onita and Sabu, which is easily one of my favorite wrestling angles ever. (And yes, I'm being serious.) I'd stay away from anything from the "All New XPW" phase though. It is really, really boring. Shane Douglas isn't that great of a booker.

isn't XPW Japan the angle that was hyped up and then never happened?

As much as I hate XPW, their early stuff with Damien Steele,Sabu, Big Dick Dudley, The Messiah, and Johnny Webb isn't too bad. Once Messiah Sabu, and Dudley left, the company really went down hill. Then when Webb left all you had was Altar Boy Luke, MMW, and Youthanzia (Steele kind of fizzled out).

The first show in Philly was ok, but they got progressively worst. Anybody who had the displeasure of seeing any of these shows will agree they were bad. If it weren't for the tag matches of Mexico's Most Wanted and Youthanzia, and Altar Boy Luke taking bumps, the shows were beyond bad. There's no way to sugar coat it.

The only XPW DVDs I would suggest you getting are ones that have Messiah on them (not including Redemption which he no showed)

[The Line]

thanks for the help guys.

[Bishblast]

Good god, I have 3 of these DVDs, they were cheap at Suncoast stores, I remember. The were around 8 or 9 dollars, so I got a few with names I recognized. I got one where they did a double cage match, and allot of stupid crap, one with a main event of Candido vs. Douglas... terrible, botch heavy match. The rest of the card was even worse.

Then, the other one I got, was actually pretty decent. It had a ladder match between Chris Hamrick and Kaos, Psychosis vs. Super Crazy, and a main event of Shane Douglas vs. Terry Funk. The main event was of note because Funk's arm got cut open and he bled all over the place. Horrible cut, one of the worst I've seen resulting from a wrestling match.

So mostly, yeah, it's terrible. And mostly, laughably so. But then, you may find something you legitimately like in one of those DVDs.