Wrestling Society X
Short-lived Professional Wrestling promotion aired on MTV in 2007.
Presented as an "underground" fight-club, taking place in the WSX Bunker, the focus tended to be on high-flying in-ring action, boosted by a ton of pyrotechnics and MTV production style. While criticized for its obvious use of planted audience members, the thirty-minute episode length, some questionable musical guests, and announcers that oozed Totally Radical faux-edginess, generally the matches themselves were of high-quality, the wrestlers had some interesting (and often hilarious) gimmicks, and the explosions were pretty cool. During its run, additional matches, promos and commentary was shown online at the show's website.
All in all, it had the marks of a promotion that had just started to find its voice when it was Screwed by the Network: MTV took offense at a spot where wrestler Ricky Banderas set opponent Vampiro on fire, and pulled the show from the schedule. The rest of the episodes were quickly burned off in a single night, with the final episode unseen until the DVD release.
- All-Star Cast: Some of the best indy talent out there from Ring of Honor, Dragon Gate, and Pro Wrestling Guerilla! You had Colt Cabana, Tyler Black, Jimmy Jacobs, Masato Yoshino, T.J. Perkins, Joey Ryan, Genki Horiguchi, Human Tornado, Matt Sydal...
- Balls of Steel: The Human Tornado
- Deep South: The Trailer Park Boyz
- Disco Dan: That 70s Team
- Emo Teen: The DIFH Tag Team
- Gorgeous George: Matt Sydal (aka Evan Bourne)
- Human Popsicle: Matt Classic (better known as Colt Cabana), a wrestler recently revived from the 50s who uses hilariously outdated wrestling maneuvers and survives on a diet of "raw eggs, mayonnaise sandwiches and cigarettes".
- Impressive Pyrotechnics: A lot of episodes ended with Stuff Blowing Up in spectacular fashion.
- Let X Be the Unknown
- Parts Unknown: Jimmy Jacobs from "The Dark Side of a Broken Heart"
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Jack Evans
- Spot Monkey: Nearly the entire roster
- Screwed by the Network
- One particularly interesting example falls under Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking; the series would involve explosions and people being slammed into coffins, but the show got pulled for a while because of a flash paper fireball.