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Summary: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Wrestling Promotion
Review: This is an open letter to Rob Black.Dear Mr. Black, It has come to my attention that you are running a promotion called XPW, similar to Paul Heyman's ECW, as you know, Heyman is bankrupt and severely in debt and working for Vince McMahon, I probably shouldn't even bother trying to get you off the road you've chosen, but here are a few pointers. 1) Stealing from leagues where the paychecks bounce is not the best course of action to run a wrestling promotion through. It'd be wise of you to begin to rip off oh say, WWE, a promotion that turns a profit and still exists. 2) There are wrestling fans who don't happen to live in Pennsylvania. Not everybody wants to see people being drenched in blood, being thrown onto thumb tacks and exploding barbed wire lightbulb matches and all that garbage. It detracts from the product, if you're going to have a violent match hype it up real good and make it matter. It's total overkill. 3) Speaking of your barbed wire exploding light bulb of death matches, and not to mention, the porn stars, no PPV company or Cable Channel in their right minds is going to want to carry your product. WWF couldn't swing a barbed wire match for Wrestlemania 14, what makes you think someone will ever carry your product if people are drenched in blood on the box of your DVDs? 4) Try to build a star. Maybe putting some effort into scouting your wrestlers would be a good start, build them up, develop a fanbase for them, merchandise them and make them main eventers. If someone gets bounced from ECW that probably means that they were not pulling their weight. 5) For Godsakes, change the titles of your shows, Xtreme Conception? Baptized In Blood? It sounds pretty dirty man. Despite your current product, if you were to listen to my suggestions and land a network show, i would check out your product, and i mean if, put forth some effort and fans will care. Love,
Jared
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Summary: Good but not great
Review: This is XPW's second video release. I'm a huge fan of XPW and this video has it's ups and downs. The first match is a round one match between Supreme vs. Kid Kaos with involves beds of barbed wire and nails. I think fans would love the high flying mixed in with the use of barbed wire. I think it's a good match. Next match is "White Trash" Jonny Web vs. The Messiah in a thumb tack ladder match. They definetly take full use of the thumbtacks in this match and alot of the bumbs these guys take are really cool. The next match is Kronus vs. Carlito Montana in a bed of barbed wire and lightbulbs match. First to say the match was too short. The only highlight is when Kronus throws Carlito on the bed of lightbulbs. There's also a part in the match when Kronus throws Monana on a table but the table doesn't break. The match was very dissapointing. The next match was Axl Rotten vs. Homeless Jimmy in a bed of glass and nails match. Another dissapointing match. Axl uses his trademark barbed wire ax handle most of the match but this match is also short. and the only big part of the match is when Axl hits Jimmy with a chair and he lands on the bed of glass. The next match wasn't part of the tournament. It was Chronic vs. J.N. This was probibly the worst match of the whole video. On three ocasions, J.N. pukes. Chronic tries to do a bulldog from the top rope to the table but he messes up and the crowd boos them. Then later there's a run-in by Mustafa and him and Chronic throw J.n. threw a table. I'd advise you to fast foward threw this match. The next match is my personal favorte of the match. It's second round match of the tournament between Supreme and The Messiah in a bed of thumbtacks and barbed wire match. This match is what all hardcore fans would love. Both wrestlers give it there all in this match. Its a shame that some of these other matches couldn't be more like this one. The next match was Kronus vs. Axl wrotten in a bed of barbed wire and nails match. The match was too short and too many screwups in this match. The only highlight in this match is when Kronus suplexes Axl Rotten threw a bed of barbed whire for the win. I was expecting alot more in this match between two hardcore stars but things arn't always what they're suppost to be. The next match is for the XPW titel as "The Real Deal" Damien Steel defends the belt against Christ Candido in a falls counts anywhere match. This match could have been real good but both of these guys just can't work well together. The only good thing about the match is when Shane Dougles comes out and shoots all over WCW and tells XPW that you now have yourselfs a "Franchise". The next match is the final match in the tournament between Supreme and Kronus in a barbed wire ropes and beds of glass,nails,lightbulbs,thumbtacks,barbed wire and barbed wire tables match. A cool thing about this match is Slayer's lead guitar player Kerry King is the special guest ring announcer of this match. This match was just boring. All it shows is Kronus throwing supreme in all the beds. And then out of nowhere, supreme bodyslams Kronus and then gets on top of the latter and wrapped in barbed wire, he splashes on him for the win. Also another dissapointing match. They then show a part when Lizzy Borden and Kronus strip Kristy Myst in front of everyone. It was cool but not enough skin. Then they show a steel cage match between The Messiah and "White Trash" Jonny Web. This match is also another reason to own this video. Theres this cool part where Web hits the Messiah off of the top of the cage and he lands on the table. These are two of XPW's best and I think the fans won't be dissapoint with this match. Then they show a bonus three way match between Kid Kaos, Phinominal Phil, and Mike Modest. For non hardcore fans, this is an amazing fast paced high flying match. Ofcourse they throw in some hardcore elements into this match but it gells well with the wrestling. These three wrestlers work there asses off in this match and pute on great performances. I think ECW fans would love this match. All and all, "Baptized in Blood" could be better. but it could be worse. if you want to see how XPW started, then you should purchase "Hardcore Conception" (their first video release) and "The Revolution Will Be Telivised" (which is the first two episodes fromt here telivision show). But if you want their best release, get "Go Funk Yourself". It has some great matches like Sabu vs. Terry Funk for the XPW title and both wrestlers destroy everything in their paths. The King of The Deathmatch battle between Supreme and The Messiah which any hardcore fan would love this match. There's also a really good three way match between Kronus, Homeless Jimmy, and "White Trash" Jonny Web. plus a six man brawl with Kronic, Big Rot, and Carlito Montana vs. Halloween, Damien 666, and Rey Misterio Sr. And Kid Kaos competes in two matches. first against Steven Razzono. then against Tracey Smothers.
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Summary: May be worth it too some people
Review: This tape is full of hardcore gimmick matches in a death match tournament. But be warned this tape is a indy tape so dont expect too much out of it because these guys are rookies and make alot of mistakes and dont sell the action very well. (ex. when john kronus tries too cut Supreme with a piece of glass you can see supreme take a razor blade and knick himself with it too bleed while his hand is in front of the glass.) But the tape does show some wrestlers taking some hard bumps (wrestling lingo for hard falls and hits) so in conclusion this tape is worth the price if your a fan of indy wrestling or must see every hardcore match in the world.
Rating:
Summary: Baptized in Blood
Review: This was the first XPW I have seen and wasnt disappointed, at the very least you get your money's worth with almost 3 hours of runtime (excluding extras). The matches are good and very brutal, the messiah gets it the worst barbedwire, thumbtacks, glass, beds of nails, lightbulbs, tables, this one guy starts barfing in the middle of the match I dont know if it's his gimmick but the way they start screaming about it makes me laugh even now. The commentary is good with a stereotypical mexican anouncer (not annoying), dvd produced by gold hill full motion video title and match selection screens. As long as expectations are not set too high youll want too keep this one, if your looking for ecw quality then you should be buying ecw.
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Summary: Amateur Garbage Wrestling at it's most pathetic
Review: Wow I wish I liked this DVD, I really do. I'm a big ECW/FMW fan, and was expecting (perhaps wishing a bit much, but still...) to at least get an entertaining hardcore wrestling experience, but to my disappointment I got a disc full of amateurs doing stupid stunts with little to no skill, regard for themselves, or their opponents. Sure, hardcore wrestling is supposed to be crazy, but this is just plain sloppy. The only entertaining moments were from the VERY latino announcer "Larry" and the brief shoots by Chris Candido and Shane Douglas, the latter of which was the only moment where you could actually tell the audience was enjoying the show. Quite frankly just skip over this DVD on your way to the ECW DVDs, because, just like I am right now, you'll be kicking yourself later for having wasted money on such garbage.
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