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47-409: The XPW Television Championship was introduced in 2001 by Xtreme Pro Wrestling and the champion was decided in a one night tournament at XPW's Damage Inc. event, which featured competitors such as Konnan , Johnny Webb, Kid Kaos, Dynamite D and Vic Grimes . There would only be two XPW Television Champions, as Kaos held the championship for a year and a half. Kaos would go on to successfully defend

94-402: A Money Maker on Swinger for the win. Next, Jerry Lynn took on Steve Corino . Jack Victory interfered on Corino's behalf by attempting to throw powder into Lynn but he ducked and the referee was knocked out with it instead. Lynn hit a belly-to-back suplex to Corino but could not pin him due to the referee being knocked out. Corino nailed Lynn with his boot and then Victory hit Lynn with

141-399: A That's Incredible to Jazz, leaving the brawl to Credible and Dreamer. Credible executed a That's Incredible to Dreamer on the barbed wire to retain the title. Arnold Furious of Wrestling Recaps wrote "This is a thumbs in the middle effort. It’s not terrible by any stretch of the imagination but no one match stands out particularly. It’s made memorable by the odd spot but not by any of

188-842: A Stairway to Hell match , in which Justin Credible successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Tommy Dreamer . On the undercard , Rob Van Dam defeated Scotty Anton and Rhino successfully defended the World Television Championship against The Sandman . This event was notable for the controversial incident between ECW wrestlers and the personnel from Xtreme Pro Wrestling although its wrestlers were not involved. The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines . Wrestlers portrayed villains , heroes , or less distinguishable characters in

235-421: A brainbuster on a steel chair for the win. Later, Rhino defended the World Television Championship against The Sandman . Jack Victory and Steve Corino interfered on Rhino's behalf but Spike Dudley thwarted their interference as Dudley caned Victory and then Sandman and Dudley hit a 3D to Corino. Rhino then attempted a Gore on Sandman but he dodged it and Dudley was accidentally knocked out with

282-399: A chokeslam , an elbow drop and applied a bearhug for the quick victory. Next, Kid Kash , Danny Doring and Roadkill competed against the team of Simon Diamond , C. W. Anderson and Johnny Swinger . Simon and Swinger attempted to hit a Problem Solver on Doring but Kash saved him from the move and Doring executed a Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am on Diamond. This allowed Kash to hit

329-406: A cowbell, which allowed Corino to get a near-fall on Lynn. Lynn attempted a cradle piledriver but Corino reversed it into a pinfall attempt. A series of near-falls led to Lynn hitting a cradle piledriver for the win. After the match, the injured New Jack came on crutches but was attacked by Da Baldies ( Tony DeVito and Angel ) until Chris Chetti and Nova made the save for Jack, leading to

376-513: A few events in early 2003. On March 8, 2003, the promotion held an event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , which had 1,500 people in attendance, mainly due to Pittsburgh being Shane Douglas's hometown. This would be XPW's very last event; there was event scheduled for April 2003 but it was cancelled. Tickets for the April 2003 event were reported to be selling very poorly prior to the event, leading to

423-569: A locally televised TV show, simply known as XPW TV . The show original aired on KDOC-TV in Los Angeles, California, but later switched to WBGN-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the promotion relocated to that city. Following the relocation to Philadelphia, XPW TV would be referred to as XPW Monday Nightmare , with the television series airing on Mondays instead of its original Saturday night timeslot. In November 2002, Kris Kloss

470-492: A major focus on the soap opera aspect of wrestling, as the storylines involved porn stars , alternative lifestyles, profanity, and sadistic violence. The first XPW event was held on July 31, 1999 at the Reseda Country Club . The initial announce team for XPW consisted of Kris Kloss and Larry Rivera , with Kloss doing the play-by-play and Rivera taking on the role as a heel color commentator. Kloss's trademark

517-503: A match between Rhino and Sandman for the title at Heat Wave. At Hardcore Heaven, Scotty Anton cost Rob Van Dam, a match against Jerry Lynn . Anton joined The Network and began attacking Network's rivals with his Clapper . On the June 9 episode of ECW on TNN , Anton interfered in a tag team match between Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman and the team of Justin Credible and Rhino until RVD attacked him and helped Dreamer and Sandman in winning

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564-409: A match pitting Chetti and Nova against Da Baldies. Nova hit a Third Degree to DeVito followed by Chetti hitting an Amityville Horror on Angel. Nova and Chetti then hit a Tidal Wave on Angel for the win. Next, Yoshihiro Tajiri , Mikey Whipwreck , Little Guido and the returning Psicosis competed in a Four-Way Dance . Whipwreck knocked out all his three opponents with a plancha outside

611-453: A promotion called MEXPW, which billed itself as a successor to XPW, was founded by Damián 666 and former XPW producer Mike Hartsfield. MEXPW later changed its name to MEXPRO Wrestling (MPW), this was a result of legal action from Big Vision Entertainment. During the summer of 2021, Zicari announced on Instagram and Twitter his plans to relaunch XPW. The first event of the revived XPW, Rebirth , streamed on FITE TV pay-per-view from

658-697: A third XPW reunion show, Perros del Mal vs. XPW: Xtremo y Sangriento , in August 2011. In 2021, after XPW was featured on Vice 's Dark Side of the Ring series, Zicari relaunched the promotion, basing it out of Rochester, New York . Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) was founded in summer 1999 on the West Coast, based primarily in Los Angeles, California . The promotion based its style on hardcore wrestling , featuring many dangerous matches. In addition, XPW kept

705-583: The Clapper , so Anton applied a Clapper on Anton. RVD hit a Van Daminator and a Five Star Frog Splash and had the match won but then proceeded to debut his new move Van Terminator on Anton for the win. Prior to the main event, six performers from the Los Angeles-based Xtreme Pro Wrestling promotion, who were given front row tickets by promotion owner Rob Black , donned shirts of their promotion, which caught

752-516: The Gore . Rhino drove Dudley from the apron onto a table with a Rhino Spike . Sandman then hit Rhino with a cane and attempted a White Russian Legsweep ; however, Rhino gave him a Rhino Spike on the guardrail then pinned him to retain the title. In the penultimate match, Rob Van Dam took on Scotty Anton . Anton took out RVD's leg with a chair shot and then applied a Clapper on RVD. Bill Alfonso distracted Anton, allowing RVD to move out of

799-727: The Insane Clown Posse , and Psicosis . At XPW's third-anniversary event, Night of Champions in July 2002, Shane Douglas made his return to XPW as the mystery opponent of Johnny Webb, winning the XPW World title. The event also saw the XPW's third King of the Deathmatch Tournament, matches from which got released on home video as Baptized In Blood III . Douglas would work as both an in-ring performer and booker for

846-802: The Main Street Armory in Rochester, New York on November 7, 2021. Eight wrestlers competed during the event in a traditional single-elimination tournament for the then-vacated XPW World Heavyweight Championship , which was won by Brian Cage . XPW's Killifornia event took place at the Derby Room in Pomona, California on April 9, 2022. During the event, sixteen wrestlers competed in Baptized in Blood, XPW's signature deathmatch tournament, for

893-660: The XPW King of the Deathmatch Championship . The tournament was won by Shlak. Beautiful Disaster took place on June 25 and featured an eight-woman tournament to determine the first holder of the XPW Women's Championship. In the tournament final, Taya Valkyrie defeated Kamille Brickhouse , Ludark Shaitan, and Sage Sin Supreme in a ladder match to win the title. From April 2000 until March 2003, XPW ran

940-505: The DVD releases of Forever Hardcore and Hardcore Homecoming . The series was revived in 2021 with weekly episodes airing on FITE TV . Following the end of the XPW-FITE partnership in 2022, XPW TV moved to Stream XPW, XPW's own streaming service . As of November 22, 2024 Heat Wave (2000) Eight professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The main event was

987-687: The ECW Arena, preventing other independent promotions from holding events at the venue. As XPW continued to run on the East Coast, the risqué storylines were quickly phased out, and a majority of XPW's West Coast employees were not a part of the East Coast-based "All-New XPW." The relocation to the East Coast also resulted in more former ECW stars passing through XPW, whether it be on a regular basis or one-night appearances. XPW would eventually return to their former home of Los Angeles for

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1034-595: The Enterprise emerged and would eventually feud with the Black Army the following year. Originally consisting of former Black Army henchmen Steve Rizzono , motivational speaker TJ Rush, porn star Veronica Caine, and G. Q. Money , the stable became fully formed at the Damage Inc. event when Kid Kaos won the newly created XPW Television Championship and turned his back on his uncle Supreme, aligning himself with

1081-561: The Enterprise. After this surprise heel turn, Kid Kaos dropped the "Kid" from his name and nicknamed himself "The Rock Superstar" Kaos. For a year, from April 2001 to April 2002, XPW ran events at Los Angeles' Grand Olympic Auditorium . Notable events during this period, included Genocide , which featured a double-ringed WarGames-style cage match and Free Fall , which included the infamous 40-foot scaffold match between Vic Grimes and New Jack . Many marquee names debuted in XPW during these events, such as The Sandman , Vampiro , Konnan ,

1128-605: The King of the Deathmatch Tournament. Zicari originally ran the promotion out of Los Angeles from 1999 to 2002. He appeared on shows as the on-camera owner under the ring name Rob Black alongside his then-wife Lizzy Borden . The promotion focused on hardcore wrestling and had connections to the Los Angeles porn industry, as Zicari was the real life owner of the Extreme Associates pornographic film production company. In 2002, Shane Douglas , who previously wrestled for

1175-474: The May 19 episode of ECW on TNN . Two weeks later, Credible attacked Raven with a That's Incredible until Dreamer made the save but was attacked by The Network . The following week on ECW on TNN , it was announced that Credible would defend the title against Dreamer in a Stairway to Hell match at Heat Wave. At Hardcore Heaven, Rhino defeated The Sandman to retain the World Television Championship . On

1222-578: The May 28 episode of Hardcore TV , Cyrus named Kintaro Kanemura , the #1 contender for the World Television Championship and announced that Sandman would have to beat Kanemura in order to gain a title shot at Rhino. Sandman defeated Kanemura to become the #1 contender for the title. On the June 2 episode of ECW on TNN , Sandman received a title shot against Rhino but the match ended due to interference by The Network, Dusty Rhodes , Yoshihiro Tajiri and Rob Van Dam . This led to

1269-551: The XPW Television Championship against the likes of Psicosis , Nosawa , Chris Hamrick , Danny Doring , Jonny Storm, and Shark Boy . Xtreme Pro Wrestling Xtreme Pro Wrestling ( XPW ) is an American independent professional wrestling promotion owned by Rob Zicari and operated by Extreme Gifts. The promotion is known for its deathmatch style . From 2000 to 2002, XPW held an annual death match tournament called Baptized in Blood, also known as

1316-542: The XPW contingent and members of the ECW roster, which spilt out into the parking lot of the venue. Shortly after the ECW incident, XPW had their first-anniversary event, Go Funk Yourself , at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena on July 22, 2000. The main event saw XPW World Heavyweight Champion Sabu defeat Terry Funk . The event was considered by many as a high point for XPW; though it

1363-598: The attention of Tommy Dreamer and ECW security and were promptly ejected. A brawl in the parking lot of the Grand Olympic Auditorium between the XPW crew and the ECW locker room followed, based on false reporting that Francine had been touched by someone from XPW. This was followed by Justin Credible defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Tommy Dreamer in a Stairway to Hell match . George turned on Dreamer by hugging Francine and then Jazz knocked out both women. Credible then nailed

1410-535: The entire event and its 45-minute pre-show. A second reunion show, called Ten Year Anniversary Spectacular , was held on August 22, 2009. A third and final XPW reunion show, called Perros del Mal vs. XPW: Xtremo y Sangriento was held on August 20, 2011. The show was a co-promoted event with the Perros del Mal promotion in Tultitlan, Mexico . In the aftermath of Perros del Mal vs. XPW: Xtremo y Sangriento ,

1457-498: The event being cancelled, though XPW announced they were canceling the event due to a large storm. In April 2003, Rob Black and Lizzy Borden were indicted on obscenity charges due to pornographic material produced by XPW's parent company, Extreme Associates. Federal agents in Pittsburgh had purchased the offending material, which depicted scenes of rape, urination, and murder. The trial took a financial toll on Black and Borden, and

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1504-426: The fall of that promotion. In July 2000, ECW made its West Coast debut, holding its annual summer pay-per-view Heat Wave in Los Angeles, California. Rob Black purchased six front row tickets and sent The Messiah , Kid Kaos, Supreme, Kristi Myst , Homeless Jimmy, and Kris Kloss to attend the show. Prior to the main event, the XPW crew began disrupting the show, which led to a legitimate out-of-character brawl between

1551-521: The match. On the June 23 episode of ECW on TNN , it was announced that RVD would face Anton at Heat Wave and Cyrus predicted that RVD would receive a Clapper at the event. On the July 14 episode of ECW on TNN , RVD said that he had no respect for Anton and he would introduce him to the Van Terminator during their match. In the opening match of the event, Balls Mahoney took on Sal E. Graziano. Graziano avoided Mahoney's chair shot and hit

1598-477: The matches. There is a lot that needs to be fast-forwarded." Scott Keith of 411Mania wrote "Thumbs in the middle, leaning up for some decent action, but the lack of a great match keeps it from going up." Rob Van Dam began feuding with Rhino over the World Television Championship since RVD never lost the title and was stripped off the title due to injury. On the September 8 episode of ECW on TNN , Rhino lost

1645-558: The promotion, returned to XPW as its booker and moved the "All-New XPW" to his home state of Pennsylvania . Credited to the promotional efforts of Douglas and Cody Michaels , XPW's East Coast move was initially successful in cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh before, ultimately, being deemed a failure and contributing to the promotion's closure in 2003. After the promotion became defunct, Big Vision Entertainment held two XPW reunion shows, Cold Day In Hell in May 2008 and XPW X in August 2009. Perros del Mal Producciones held

1692-532: The promotion; under Douglas' influence, the promotion would move its operations from the West Coast to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , basing itself at the former ECW Arena . XPW debuted at the former ECW Arena on August 31, 2002, at the Hostile Takeover event, and Shane Douglas became the promotion's focal point for the rest of the year. Controversy arose when XPW signed an exclusive lease with

1739-409: The ring until The Full Blooded Italians interfered in the match and Sal E. Graziano slammed him into the ring post. This allowed Psicosis to hit a Psycho Guillotine to Whipwreck and Guido pinned him for the first elimination. The action continued between the three men as Tajiri nailed a German suplex to Psicosis to eliminate him. After a back and forth action, Tajiri spit mist into Guido and hit

1786-470: The scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches played out on ECW's television programs, Hardcore TV and ECW on TNN . At CyberSlam , Justin Credible attacked Tommy Dreamer and challenged him to a match for the World Heavyweight Championship , right after Dreamer had just won the title. Credible ended up defeating Dreamer for the title after Francine turned on Dreamer. At Hardcore Heaven , Credible

1833-475: The title to Kid Kash due to assistance by RVD. Two weeks later, Rhino defeated Kash to regain the title. At Anarchy Rulz , Rhino defeated RVD to retain the title. On the August 25 episode of ECW on TNN , Jerry Lynn was named the number one contender to Justin Credible's World Heavyweight Championship at Anarchy Rulz due to the event taking place in Lynn's home state of Minnesota . Lynn defeated Credible to capture

1880-430: The title. A tournament was set up for the vacant ECW World Tag Team Championship in August. The Unholy Alliance (Yoshihiro Tajiri and Mikey Whipwreck ) won the tournament for the vacant titles on September 1 episode of ECW on TNN . They lost the titles a week later to The Full Blooded Italians ( Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke ). FBI successfully defended the titles against Unholy Alliance at Anarchy Rulz. This

1927-534: The two could no longer financially subsidize XPW, with the promotion going out of business. Xtreme Entertainment Group (which would later split into two companies, XEG and Big Vision Entertainment ), the company of which former XPW employee Kevin Kleinrock would later become Executive Vice President of, purchased the rights to use the XPW name under license in 2004, through bankruptcy proceedings. Black later stated "If I never got indicted I would have definitely kept

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1974-420: The wrestling thing going." In the summer of 2003, the only pay-per-view (PPV) of the original XPW, The Best of XPW , aired. The PPV featured a compilation of highlights from XPW's past events. In 2006, Big Vision Entertainment founded Wrestling Society X , the de facto successor to XPW. Between 2008 and 2011, three XPW reunion shows were held, two in Los Angeles and a third in Tultitlan, Mexico . The first

2021-558: Was Cold Day in Hell , held on May 24, 2008. The event came about when Big Vision Entertainment, the owners of XPW, worked on MTV 's Wrestling Society X which featured many XPW alumni. While working on the project, the company came up with the idea to hold an XPW reunion show. The event was produced by Kevin Kleinrock and Kris Kloss. Big Vision Entertainment released Cold Day in Hell on DVD and Blu-ray in January 2009, which included

2068-546: Was four more months until XPW put on another event. During the hiatus, an attempt to bring in Atsushi Onita , a pioneer of Japanese deathmatch wrestling, for an exploding ring match failed. One of the main storylines for most of 2001 concerned the heel stable known as the Black Army. The Black Army was headed by Rob Black, assisted by his wife Lizzy Borden and XPW's top star The Messiah , and feuded with Sabu . Also, throughout most of 2001, another heel stable called

2115-456: Was removed from XPW TV ' s announcing booth and replaced with former ECW commentator Joey Styles . Styles, however, left the company in December 2002, only spending about one month in the promotion. In 2009, the first three seasons of XPW TV were released on DVD by Big Vision Entertainment . XPW TV matches have also been extras on several other Big Vision wrestling DVDs, including

2162-549: Was scheduled to defend the title against Dreamer and Lance Storm in a three-way dance but threatened to throw down the ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt if Dreamer came to the ring to wrestle him. Credible then defeated Storm in Storm's last ECW match to retain the title. Dreamer hit a Dreamer Driver to Credible after the match. Credible successfully defended the title against Raven on

2209-540: Was screaming expletives or shrieking a high pitched scream when something shocking occurred in a match. Rivera often sided with owner Rob Black, calling him the " Donald Trump of the pro wrestling business", and his trademark announcing consisted of referring to Kloss as "chico", using "chico" in nearly all of his sentences, and occasional wandering into Spanish announcing. In this period, the promotion's main stars were homegrown wrestlers, but many former stars of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) passed through XPW following

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