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Post by cassonova on Apr 21, 2020 13:52:04 GMT -5
Has John Wayne Gacy ever commented on the wrestler's gimmick? Gacy was executed before this Pogo's in ring career started. Can't say I've heard anything from the family though.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 21, 2020 14:02:44 GMT -5
Has John Wayne Gacy ever commented on the wrestler's gimmick? Gacy was executed before this Pogo's in ring career started. Can't say I've heard anything from the family though. He's dead? I didn't even know he was sick!
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Apr 21, 2020 14:03:06 GMT -5
It was XPW. Everything involving Rob Black is gross, so it didn't really stand out. When you intentionally send people to murder the guy who was banging your wife and they cut off his thumb, everything else is just window dressing. Come to think of It, if the Tiger King people want to do another series, Rob Black is right there. The guys for Dark Side of the Ring needed to get in contact with Rob Black to use the XPW footage for the New Jack doc. Apparently he was extremely difficult to find but they did find him flipping burgers in upstate New York. Anyone who is letting Rob Black flip burgers probably should get shut down by the health department
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Post by thegame415 on Apr 24, 2020 12:49:01 GMT -5
XPW is the worst promotion ever. It's like they didn't get the creativity behind ECW and the Attitude Era and were just trying to be as controversial as possible without rhyme or reason.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 24, 2020 14:27:07 GMT -5
XPW really were one of the scummiest promotions in history.
A lot of of smaller promoters had shitty records, but XPW was garbage and on a large platform too.
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Post by Guacamole Anderson on Apr 25, 2020 14:49:17 GMT -5
I bought a couple XPW VHS tapes from a clearance bin once. Terry Funk, Chris Candido, Sabu, Shane Douglas...and a LOT of guys who had no business being in the business. Cringey.
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Post by XIII on Apr 25, 2020 16:59:40 GMT -5
Remember the time that XPW tried to invade an ECW PPV and got their asses kicked in the parking lot? Good times,
As for Pogo, it’s too on the nose of a gimmick. Like everything else in XPW there was zero subtlety or art about it.
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Post by Display Name on Apr 25, 2020 17:41:08 GMT -5
Remember the time that XPW tried to invade an ECW PPV and got their asses kicked in the parking lot? Good times, As for Pogo, it’s too on the nose of a gimmick. Like everythin* else in XPW there was zero subtlety or art about it. I was there. So crazy.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Apr 26, 2020 11:08:36 GMT -5
I bought a couple XPW VHS tapes from a clearance bin once. Terry Funk, Chris Candido, Sabu, Shane Douglas...and a LOT of guys who had no business being in the business. Cringey.
It was weird, they actually had some very good talent at their disposal, even a couple of their "homegrown" wrestlers weren't slouches. The problem the rest of the roster was melts like Pogo The Clown and Supreme, the extent of whose talents seemed to be doing punches and hitting opponents with dustbins.
I remember being told about XPW as a kid by a friend who said it was like ECW. It f***ing wasn't. I don't think I've ever managed to sit through longer than a couple of minutes of it without needing to turn it off.
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Post by mysterious on May 3, 2020 13:01:57 GMT -5
The guys for Dark Side of the Ring needed to get in contact with Rob Black to use the XPW footage for the New Jack doc. Apparently he was extremely difficult to find but they did find him flipping burgers in upstate New York. Anyone who is letting Rob Black flip burgers probably should get shut down by the health department I think Rob is actually the owner. But I do know that Ian Rotten was removed from the grill at the Taco Bell he worked at because of Hep C.
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Post by Sephiroth on May 3, 2020 14:38:33 GMT -5
Anyone who is letting Rob Black flip burgers probably should get shut down by the health department I think Rob is actually the owner. But I do know that Ian Rotten was removed from the grill at the Taco Bell he worked at because of Hep C. There’s a sentence I could have gone without
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Post by Alice Syndrome on May 3, 2020 14:52:03 GMT -5
The guys for Dark Side of the Ring needed to get in contact with Rob Black to use the XPW footage for the New Jack doc. Apparently he was extremely difficult to find but they did find him flipping burgers in upstate New York. Well for various reasons, Rob has made himself a lot of enemies both in 2... controversial (for lack of a better word) in wrestling and adult films. He kind of has to lay low. Imagine being too sketchy for the early 2000s porn industry. I know several people who were involved in... performing... around those years and that was shady times. It's only recently that things got really clean in that area.
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Post by Viking Hall on May 3, 2020 17:15:20 GMT -5
I remember XPW getting a lot of coverage in WOW Magazine at the back end of the nineties. I distinctly remember them profiling some of the lesser known members of the roster and describing Homeless Jimmy as being like Cactus Jack.
Needless to say when I finally saw footage of XPW some years later, I was less than impressed.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 3, 2020 19:13:53 GMT -5
Good lord, that's a throwback. I remember WOW was pretty much my first exposure to indy and deathmatch wrestling.
And one of my mates almost getting his copy with Sable on the cover confiscated by a teacher who thought it was porn.
Halcyon days.
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Post by y4j1981 on May 3, 2020 19:36:14 GMT -5
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Post by mysterious on May 3, 2020 20:33:15 GMT -5
No someone still has it. I think they ran a few reunion shows years ago. Don't know if Rob Black still owns it but he does use it on his twitter handle and is still involved in wrestling to some degree.
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