Wrestling Society X

So there's this new wrestling entertainment thing that recently began to be televised. It's called Wrestling Society X and it's on MTV2. I had been hearing many things about it's high paced action and rumors of it being televised for quite some time. Only recently did it come to fruition that the wrestling show was able to be put on a half hour television slot between Road Rules and Bam's Unholy Union both of which are terrible shows that have lost all the luster the stars originally had.

The first thing I noticed about Wrestling Society X was its announcer, Kris Kloss. Back in the day, when I was a snotty pre-teen/teen there was this awesome underground wrestling circuit known as XPW based out of L.A. I went to some shows and they were the only real wrestling shows I ever went to. They were fucking amazing because the bastards actually got hurt and were hurled into crazy shit like beds of barbed wire stacked on top of tables that had thumbtacks and it was all on fire...yeah this was the wrestling federation that Kris Kloss was the announcer of. It was awesome.

Kris Kloss has always been a rip off of Joey Styles but he was a cool rip off. And there was a comical element to him and XPW that appealed to me. Plus there were porn stars that got naked and at 13, this is the greatest thing in the world.

This new show, Wrestling Society X seems as if its trying to revive all of that with props that are rigged to explode and tables galore. But the problem is that its so contrived. It's so fake that it hurts to watch and not in that WOW way, but in that way you would watch a Steven Segal movie. The fact that the stunts are so fucking fake and that it's all overproduced so that it fits conveniently into a half hour slot is fucking weak. Matches aren't meant to last 30 seconds, even if they are 30 good seconds of action.

The one thing I will say about WSX that is good is that in terms of talent, they got the cream of the underground crop. They have some people that do unbelievable shit like shooting-star press leg drops and kamikaze leg twists that look fucking amazing. That's the shit that makes me go WOW. They got people like Kaos, Youth Suicide, White Trash Johnny Webb and a bunch of new kids that can do some great shit and sell things really well. Despite its potential though, these things are only shown in clips or cut together with a bunch of other sensationalized footage that adds nothing and gives the moves no build-up. It's obvious that the people producing this are young and know nothing of Wrestling Entertainment.

WSX is lacking many things. While it has the potential for great action, it can't compete with TNA because TNA is simply the best in terms of athletics and in-ring action. While they may not have the high risk amazing moves as WSX to the maximum capacity, they still do have people doing amazing shit in the ring and they know how to sell it, WITH BUILD UP. The build up to the amazing moves it the most important part. We can see Petey Williams do Canadian Destroyers for 15 seconds straight if he were in WSX and it would be cool, but the fact that this move usually comes at a crucial or sudden point in the match leaves the viewer stunned and going, "what the fuck was that!?!?!?"

TNA simply, has better action. Not because they have greater ability but because the men running it are old school and they know how to handle all the great talent to produce a show full of amazing moves and instances that will leave you gasping asking if it's humanly possible that a man can do that with his body.

For WSX in comparison to WWE, the big daddy, there is none. While WSX probably has greater talent, Vince has been doing this since he was a little kid. The production quality is no where near as good and WWE has a two hour time slot which allows for plot and character development, which is why WWE comes off more as a soap opera than a wrestling show. The acting is better,the plotlines are better, and they have an entire team of writers headed by Steph that conconct absurd story lines in the same vein as those bastards that did Melrose Place. And once again WSX is kinda just taking shits when it comes to nuiances such as these.

So basically what I'm getting at is that WSX should be an hour long to give it a sufficient push otherwise it's going to get cancelled. No one watches it and its because you can only watch a guy get "electrocuted" and "blown up" so many times before you change the channel to watch something more realistic like the movie "Romeo Must Die". WSX has potential but for now, it's still a fucking joke.

And I know pretty much no one knows what I'm talking about and I look like a giant dumbass but whatever. I follow this stupid shit. And you smell and you suck it. At least my girlfriend is hot.

- Caspiar