The MTV Wrestling show but did it blow?

[@ImagineABear]

It's worth mentioning that the "fake Patriot" guy is Colt Cabana as Matt Classic.

[@CammyTheSportsEntertainer]

Wants their show to be friendly to kids hence the no punching and kicking. *Hires New Jack* New Jack is a gem. Was so hilarious.

[@MrDunloMusic]

Wants their show to be kid friendly… Hires a wrestler named Youth Suicide

[@micahjohnsonboxing6409]

They didn't care about it being kid friendly they just didn't want to be sued.

[@CammyTheSportsEntertainer]

@@MrDunloMusic was that Suicide's son that we never knew about?

[@tafua_a]

I wish they got New Jack at least once on anything Jack-Ass related.

[@anonluxor470]

Fun fact: MTV also aired WWE Sunday night heat in the early 2000s

[@javondrake3660]

wow i wish i was a teen in 2000s

[@anonluxor470]

@Raymond Frand I fucking love celebrity deathmatch

[@antfrancis9941]

I remember when all the big wwf ppvs used to air on sky movies.

[@codyanderson7272]

I remember that it was also on channel 4 (UK Tv station) for awhile

[@billy9497able]

I used to get the ppvs for free at my grandmother's house with one of those boxes.

[@RC99_Productions]

You'll have a field day with WSX. All 10 episodes are up on KZbin (surprisingly enough), each 20 minutes long and I'd love to see you cover the rest of the (first and only) season.

[@jacobroes6006]

I'm with this dude here

[@jamespoole6681]

@@jacobroes6006 I'm with you both!

[@NickC_479]

I’ll take this too, please.

[@Quixotic311]

I LOVED WSX completely unironically. It was trash but if they'd give them an hour per episode it would have been 100x better, I think.

[@alexcarriere199]

Excited to see the rest!

[@NeioGeo]

Please do the rest of it! WSX deserves to be shown; It's so batshit crazy, that it deserves as much exposure as it can get.

[@KremlinGremlin420]

I cannot believe I was on copious amounts of drugs and missed this. DO EEET ALL

[@anthonybennett6564]

Yeah the show it's fucking wild I seen the whole thing too

[@sinner13halloweenfiend76]

Hell yes I used to love it

[@OffLeatherWings]

I remember watching this as a kid when I still believed everything in wrestling. I only saw the match between X-Pac and Vampiro, I marked out so hard for the Tombstone spot. I tried to watch it again the next week but something else was on and I never saw it again until years later on the Internet.

[@fjccommish]

Gee, I wonder why it wasn't on again.

[@andrewdunn5568]

The dvd set was great because it featured the web shows which featured full matches. Loved WSX. Yeah it was a spotfest but it offered something different than what the WWE were doing at the time. Was something of a precursor to Lucha Underground.

[@arostwocents]

It looks awesome

[@arostwocents]

They are the opposite of what the boring Meltzer fans like but would have gained a following if it was longer and on Freeview rather than MTV for sure. I would have watched.

[@Honk_Hogan]

“He looks like he left his hairline back in Japan” the fucking GOAT wrestling KZbinr on everything lmfaooooo

[@brianstone3722]

😂😂 that line killed me as well haha

[@ofs82]

Genki Horiguchi's hairline was actually part of his gimmick. He was the first of the original Toryumon dojo guys to start balding, and fans would taunt him chanting "HAGE! HAGE!" meaning "bald" at him, and getting indignant about this with a "WHO HAS CALLED ME HAGE??!?!?!" catchphrase and trying various haircut means of self-denial became part of what he was known for.

[@RGT85]

WSX was amazing. Should have been an hour long episodes.

[@tlbryant4697]

RGT watches Markyd..... I just got hit with a brick

[@BensyBens]

Oh My God It’s RGT 85!!!!!

[@matthewgates4130]

It was originally supposed to be an hour. There was a shake up a Viacom and MTV show had to be 30 min so u could get to 22 episodes earlier. 22 episodes qualify as a season in American TV. Life in a DVD driven world.

[@The_Hero74_]

No way! I just got punched in the gut

[@jeffreyriley8742]

It looks like something I would have really enjoyed (if I knew it existed.)

[@SuperMutant2099]

Fun fact: human tornado was in the movie nacho libre Boy xpw and pwg influence was all over the show. I will say this wsx wasn’t terrible but the editing and 30 minutes (which remembers had commercials) was not enough time. Sad we will never see the unedited stuff from the shows.

[@doogiemane4264]

I was jus thinking about that but I wasn’t sure if I was trippin as a kid cause in the movie you see him hit the spinning split kick in the corner

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

Someone in the comments mentioned they have full matches in the DVD set.

[@SuperMutant2099]

@@user-fe8gx3ie5v I have the dvds but I don’t remember them on there in full

[@richardgadberry8398]

Here's a few ways (off the top of my head) that could've made WSX survive at least a bit longer: --1) Hour-long episodes instead of 30 minutes. --2) No explosions/crappy effects. --3) Air it late Friday/Saturday nights. --4) Kicks and punches.

[@fjccommish]

Get rid of the cuts - which I guess they would have been able to do if the show wasn't so short.

[@gimmeachance8106]

they were doing kicks....

[@arostwocents]

The explosions are brilliant. Wrestling fans take everything way too seriously. People whining about the explosions here are the people who are responsible for wrestling being so uptight, boring and free of gimmicks today. 👎

[@richardgadberry8398]

@@arostwocents Hey, I got nothin' against pyro. It's just the effects here sucked.

[@NealCamerlengo]

I never knew this show was a thing. Seeing Zakk Wylde (who's also a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band for those who didn't know) at a wrestling show is cool.

[@freeparking301]

I love that during the late 90s till the early 2010’s Zakk Wylde was trying to show up to as many wrestling show tapings as possible.

[@gizmeksandsushi2304]

His appearance on Aqua Teen Hunger Force made for one of their best episodes. He was hilarious 😂

[@freeparking301]

@@gizmeksandsushi2304 Classic episode! One of my favs as well, right up there with the Danzig episode!

[@ColeYote]

"Horiguchi looks like he left his hairline back in Japan." Fun fact, he had a whole character arc about being insecure about that in Dragon Gate after crowds started chanting "H-A-G-E" (spelling out the Japanese word for "bald") at him. And then he starting having just about the weirdest hairstyle in wrestling history. Shaved most of his head, but kept a ponytail at the back, braided it and dyed it rainbow-coloured. Also his finisher is a backslide, it's awesome. (Genki Horiguchi is in my Boy Stable)

[@chocobros1]

I've seen this show before, it feels like being hit with a Red Bull

[@SteRDLK]

Max would kill you if he hit you

[@WMTheYoungSinatra]

There was Another WSX show called WSX Extra with off the air matches. some of the wrestlers that apeared were Seth Rollins, Jimmy Jacobs, Colt Cabana or Scorpio Sky. Also i Heard that a producer wanted PAC (Neville in WWE) and el Genérico (Sami Zayn) for The season 2 that never came along with a new title belt with a similar concept to TNA's X Division

[@othertalk3313]

I love it how the only 2 examples of the "shows with an adult theme" are Jackass and Beavis and Butthead. 2007 was a golden age.

[@kandyperez9917]

He clearly forgot about Celebrity Deathmatch and NEXT

[@arostwocents]

​​@@kandyperez9917celebrity death match wasn't an adult show. It was a comedy wrestling show for tweens and teenagers. The modern world would classify it as adult and that's why we don't get cool stuff like that, as everyone sucks.

[@dnickx]

Loved WSX, such a weird concept but awesome at the same time...for what I have read, the show was supposed to be an hour long, biut MTV decided after everything was taped for it to be 1/2 an hour, so that´s why the editing is so crazy. For example the had to fit a ten minute match into three minutes and that made the pace of the show suffer.

[@jasonpope2635]

That sounds just like MTV! Treat wrestling like jack ass

[@gc371]

The guy you affectionately called Steve-O is Joey Kaos from XPW. He runs a wrestling school in Bell Gardens in Los Angeles County, California. I trained there for a couple months but quit because I ended up getting this job I really wanted and couldn’t dedicate the time to wrestling school. Joey’s a cool guy tho. Very passionate about wrestling.

[@sunkid02]

so basically you betrayed wrestling youre not a real fan

[@gc371]

@@sunkid02 any grown man turning down a job starting at $100k is a fool. I like wrestling, but I like money more.

[@sunkid02]

@@gc371 traitor

[@OrthwormJEB]

I remember watching one or two episodes of this show. One thing I'll remember is that Seth Rollins was in one of the episodes. I also find it funny that in the first episode, you have two guys that are currently employed in AEW.

[@Kaos360]

Can we PLEASE get the full series looked at?

[@KiddGreen1]

I remember watching this at 12 years old in 2007 and I like it! This is where I begin to discover other wrestling promotions like PWG, ROH, NJPW, Dragon Gate, CMLL, MLW, AAA etc 🔥

[@peace1177]

Great video! Maybe cover some more because there’s the debut of Judas Messias who unleashes hell on Vampiro! And also some exploding ring match where you had to hit the button to set off the explosion! Would be amusing to see the Hawk’s reactions

[@cardaderdention]

I have such warm nostalgic feeling about WSX. Being in the 8th grade and watching crazy over the top wrestling. It’s a shame it didn’t have a chance.

[@LordJudgement1818]

That show was crazy 🤣. An entertaining train wreck. An having Henry Rollins on commentary was a welcome surprise. An I do enjoy me some vamperio.

[@ortega949]

It’s so interesting seeing Kris Kloss here since i only ever knew he as the XPW commentator, which for those who don’t know XPW is trying to make a comeback. They’ve had two shows one back in November of 2021 and one recently on the 9th of April i heard the November show was good but never checked it I haven’t heard anything about the April show yet. I’ve met Kris twice at the same indy show not to far from me, he’s a pretty chill dude even signed the promotional flyers the show gave everyone for free his commentary is so-so at times.

[@xymoriintus]

Who cares

[@NJ973201]

The co-promoter of WSX was a former XPW employee who had since picked up the company rights after Rob Black went down so that's how they got some of those guys to participate in WSX and also why there were a few XPW reunion shows a few years later.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Wrestling Society Ass was like something you'd see the characters in a sci-fi movie set in the distant future watching on TV. There's a later match where they added so much CGI to a thrown fireball it looked like the wrestler had f*ckin' superpowers! And at that point, why the hell not? After an exploding casket, might as well hadouken that sh*t. I feel kinda bad for the wrestlers. For all we know, they could have been having barnstormers but there's no way to tell with the crystal meth editing. Whoever was in charge of that can shuv it.

[@gonzalogca4907]

I wouldn’t be surprised if all the WSX episodes were taped one after another on the same day and that’s why the announcers were having lunch in the middle of the show lol

[@mafiaz187]

That joke about Justin Credible looking like a Road Rash character LOL

[@_C.J.]

Totally forgot about this show. Feels like stepping into a time machine. More please.

[@willkayl8793]

This was the pinnacle of Jack Evans career. He was really good here. He was also very good in Lucha Underground. He’s kind of fallen off in the last couple years in AEW.

[@tonware]

Out of all the small guys WWE picked up pre-NXT days, I’m shocked that they never got Jack Evans. He seemed more of a good fit than Matt Sydal, Low-Ki or even Bryan Danielson because he had the breakdancing/hip-hop gimmick. He seemed more marketable than those guys and could just as many crazy flips/bumps.

[@wweminehead]

Few channels have done a video on this but happy to see you covering it also 😀

[@crucifixmegabuster95]

Wrestling society x holds a special place in my heart. So many indy guys I learned about from.

[@HehedubK]

Youth Suicide was a Backyard Wrestler in Southern California. There’s a good documentary about him. It’s a homemade product by the guys who followed him.

[@FerraristDX]

Legend has it, the cuts were even too much for Kevin Dunn.

[@fhqwgads5000]

Please cover the rest. I've never heard of or seen this show.

[@thomasgarcia2991]

"He looks like a character from Road Rash" I gave the video a thumbs up after hearing that lol.

[@2buxaslice]

As an old person I do want to point out that MTV had stopped playing music videos long before 2007 and we definitely had high speed internet then too because I was working at Starbucks at the time and I was broke so I used to torrent everything I wanted to watch. I had no idea this show ever existed though which is crazy. I used to go to ECW shows and got to talk to Justin Credible a few times after the shows. He's a really nice guy in real life. Talked to New Jack once too. He was nice but I was terrified of him because of Mass Transit so I mostly avoided him lol

[@SirJoelsuf1]

Yeah MTV stopped playing music videos around 2004 or so. But high speed wifi was still kind of in its infancy tho. It's certainly not like how things would be 5 or so years later where you can (reliably) get online on your phone.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

A wild Jack nuts appears !!!! That cracked me up lol !!!

[@DevilSurvivor69]

Brian Zane from Wrestling with Wregret did an interview with one of the creators of WSX a few years back, I think was 2017 probably 🤔. Anyway, it gives a background on the creation and production of WSX, if you're interested in that.

[@datboi7116]

Seeing new jack just made me happy 10/10

[@arostwocents]

The electric box here looked 1000x better than the AEW "'exploding' ring" 😂❤ I think the explosions are awesome 😎

[@geogonz352]

"a wild Jack Nuts appears" 😂😂😂🤘🏽👌🏾

[@GuruAuggie]

I still have WSX on DVD this was my favorite as a kid

[@JaxonHex]

I honestly think it was screwed from the start. It has pretty good matches and everyone seem to be enjoying themselves. But doing all that in under 30 minutes means they couldn't get anything across well. If they had an hour, i think it would be much better. Oh, and please continue, i'd love to see your reaction to the team D.I.F.H.

[@ronjeremy9648]

"Steve-o" G-Q Money Was actually talented in XPW, one of their main stars that was there since the beginning of the company. He would fly & do cruiserweight type of moves that shortened his career

[@thegreatapeoozaru]

You just unlocked a childhood memory for me with this video. I never remembered the name I always remembered the setup though.

[@whyphy2213]

I liked WSX. Its was so bonkers that you need to see it to believe it. I also liked how the Ring announcers was announcing the wrestlers name.

[@therainmakerinsider]

I was there when they taped the pilot episode. They added a lot of explosions after the taping.

[@kevindedios7372]

I remember it fondly but didnt catch when ot we.t off the air so fast. Been forever so would enjoy going through the rest of it.

[@TheSerpentsEye]

The Patriot type guy is Matt Classic who is played by Colt Cabana.

[@dbrowndta156]

I remember randomly seeing X-Pac on here and the explosion matches and I was life wtf is this

[@thomasenigma88]

"Taking a break" Look, we all know Barood is gonna show up in some wrestling promotion with you as his manager. Just own it.

[@wrestlingwombat3821]

If you like quick action packed matches, this gets the job done. I think if the show was an hour long, and actual selling and pacing, WSX would be remembered more fondly. All in all tho, this is a guilty pleasure of mine lol

[@AllenH718]

I grew up in the 90s (not born in 90s) and I can't remember this show. Great to see something totally new (for me) from the past.

[@MeNoSpeakJibberish]

Marky as youre covering little known or forgotten promotions I would like to see you cover the awful World Of Sport reboot a few years ago on ITV. Its a shame it never really caught on

[@Clockworkorangecassidy]

The one with 8 year old non-indian boy Grado?

[@afd19850]

Was that the one with Fred Dinage?

[@FIXTREME]

God, I remember when that was new. So it's canned then

[@MeNoSpeakJibberish]

@@FIXTREME Well NXT Uk launching and signing a lot of WOS talent didnt help nor did Covid

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

WOW. Some of those spots looked pretty friggin brutal. Should definitely finish the series if there's really not that many episodes left, i know i'd watch more videos about it. 😄👍

[@AunaliB]

This show feels like what Tony Khan watched as a child and is his inspiration as a booker

[@mitchellskene8176]

Wouldn't doubt it.

[@JT-fz2xy]

Probably why he signed Jack Evans 🤣

[@Landofnothing]

He wouldn't have been a child when this came out

[@joebenson528]

@@JT-fz2xy Jack Evans was a lot better in the Indies when he cared. Once he became a jobber in AEW he just decided to get fat and do sloppy flip flops all over the ring with the accuracy of birdshot at 50 yards.

[@jaydav6521]

Looks like Lucha Underground without Luchadores.

[@fhqwgads5000]

Looks like white boy underground.... And I'm so fucking in. You had me at explosions.

[@316shizacies]

Cover it!!! I remember that shit back in the day... My ADD kicked in lol it was perfect

[@foff9905]

Please do more of these I always love learning about permoshins and wrestlers I don't know about without videos like this plus you always make me laugh with the comments 😆

[@matthewgates4130]

It was originally supposed to be an hour. There was a shake up a Viacom and MTV shows had to be 30 min to get to 22 episodes earlier. 22 episodes qualify as a season in American TV. DVD to market life ,baby.

[@HereticalKitsune]

Looks like a fun promotion, so please show us more!

[@RooDaRippa]

More please , I loved WSX , when I seen Jack Evans do that 630 for the first time , it blew my mind, I was sad that the Finale never aired on Tv , but I Finally watched the Last episode when I bought the DVD set.

[@glenncross4987]

Might as well do the rest seeing there's a few episodes left. Also why only 30 minutes for a wrestling show I'll never understand. An hour could have worked great

[@MoonlightStrider]

The WSX Arena looks like the kind of place you unlock in a mid 00s wrestling game.

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Fun fact: Sparta was a result of a breakup of At the drive-in which one half became the mars volta and the other Sparta. The drummer was also in Gone is gone 😊

[@seantaft3853]

It's sad to see a lot of American Independent Wrestling Legends (Nate Webb, Matt Cross, Human Tornado) and guys who made themselves in a few years (Jack Evans, Matt Sydel) having some of their worst matches here.

[@ricolewis2949]

Legends?

[@archivefolds]

These weren’t bad matches at all. I honestly thought the episode was pretty good from what he showed.

[@NJ973201]

@@ricolewis2949 I dunno about Human Tornado but both Matt Cross & Nate Webb had been around a long time and are still wresting to this day. Cross for example had over 10 years on him when he was part of the 2011 Tough Enough.

[@arostwocents]

Its hilarious they list Justin Credible as an '11 time ECW and WWF Champ' like he won the WWF world title 😂

[@micahjohnsonboxing6409]

Back in the day matches would sometimes go past TV time and they'd show the rest the next week, so it is possible to have hour long match.

[@jacknero9937]

8:00 it's always shocking to see matt cross without a beard, but that time it hit me completely out of nowhere

[@mrhop9022]

Yo I would Looovvvveeee to see you cover the rest of the episodes

[@DeathSongoftheThreeStorms]

So the golden rule of having a wrestling show on TV is to have it be a minimum of one hour. And I say you finish the rest of WSX in between the other series on your channel.

[@extremepop324]

Wrestling Society X was really good. Better than anything in the last 15 years. It has amazing presentation, and it just felt different in a good way.

[@stevenzack1497]

The rest of WSX needs to be shown so that I have a 100% fail proof reason to smash my face with a brick each week.

[@tafua_a]

I can't help giggling every time you call Kaos "Steve-O". I don't know why, I find it really funny!

[@the3rdmorice]

Fabian Kaelin was the announcer's name and what a name to have in wrestling.

[@benbarnett4999]

I loved wrestling society x. I rewatched it all recently and now it just seems so over the top but was a lot of fun still. Was the first time I saw people like Matt cross and Matt sydal and jack evans

[@JW666]

Go for it, would love to see you do the rest =) I heard Colt Cabana was gonna show up in season 2 of Wrestling Society X, but it never happend.

[@raphaelpuccio2350]

It's cool to know that the Steve-O lookalike is the guy who trained Jake Atlas at Santino Bros Wrestling

[@howardsimcox5596]

Another interesting topic from the hawk. Most original wrestling channel, by a mile.

[@Aaron-io8vw]

the human Was a PWG regular in the early 2000's and worked ROH back then too.. He was PWG tag champs with El Generico. Candace Laree was his valet at one point as well

[@dbrowndta156]

3 mins in and I cant believe all the wrestlers I know who were in this promotion and didnt know back then

[@jiovanysoltero923]

Omg I remember this , growing up in middle school a lot of my peers thought this was more hard-core than the WwECW. And also Rob Dyrdeck and Teen Mom Destroyed MTV, I may sound dirty but I give Jersey shore a pass because I watched the hell out of that as a high schooler.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

MTV was ruined long before any of that trash was thought up.

[@Megaalith]

Teen Mom and the sort were the ones that killed MTV. Jersey Shore wasn't awful compared to that shit show that ruined an entire generation of people.

[@TheRandomGoofball]

2007 was quite the year for Wrestling. I remember WSX was awesome and introduced me to some Indie wrestlers that I never heard at the time. I would like hear what you got to say about the rest of the episodes!

[@michaelmascolajr2003]

Yes, please cover the rest! What a roster!

[@Simpyphus]

I stopped watching wrestling at this point, but I was aware of this show. Great vid, would like to see more of this.

[@logiberra5317]

I was shocked to see Sparta on here. One of my favorite bands growing up lmao

[@blimy01maynard30]

Less money on pyrotechnics and more money on lighting.

[@solosindicate6000]

The only show xpac was A MAIN EVENTER. I’ll never forget leaving 7th grade and watching this show

[@TheOriginalJrod]

Rest of it please. I lived through it, but some Hawk commentary is never a bad thing.

[@lilsmegma]

Black Label, Three Six Mafia and Sparta ? the music guests were awesome

[@bowdenproductions]

You’ve been uploading a ton man! Not surprised you’d need a break! Enjoy some relaxation!

[@micahjohnsonboxing6409]

Yeah I think you should give every other episode it's on video. It's definitely worth it.

[@Devitciiu]

Love WSX. It was one of the first wrestling shows I ever watched.

[@codyanderson7272]

I haven't watched the video yet but I just want to say that wsx imo was really good. Can't wait to hear your take on it 😂.

[@chrism6347]

I remember really liking the show back in the day.

[@SuperNitroZ64]

In my opinion, I'd love to see another wrestling promotion do a TV deal with MTV in today's world.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

I remember watching this when I was in eighth grade.

[@tbspromotions]

I hope you cover the rest of the episodes!

[@bentarbuck6161]

anyone else smile whenever they see new jack? i just think back to the video he did saying hes the winner of the ring of the hawk and breaks character laughing