The XWF Could Have Been Something!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- No More Prima Donnas! In Your Face! Same Old Crap! It's time to take a closer look at the short-lived dumpster fire of a federation known as, the XWF!
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“I don’t know what they got for putting a live mic in front of Sable but it should of been 3 to 5 years.” -Jim Cornette
Nailed it. She sucks in almost every regard really.
@Lol Lomao
God, you're just an insufferable dolt lol
In the words of Kurt Angle: “Oh it’s true, it’s damn true!”
8:36 Hogan pointing at himself whilst saying "no more primadonnas."
Superb!
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Eh, Hogan ain’t the first or last….how many of these people are really as selfless as we think, we just “found out” more about Hogan a bit sooner, that’s all…
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh The irony... BROTHER!
@@TheAB3 I just realized that
The fact that the Hogan skit wasn't funny makes it more funny.
I met Hacksaw once at a county fair in South Carolina. He was super cool and called my daughter a beautiful young lady. Hacksaw has a big heart. Say what you want about him but he's a fucking awesome human-being.
Hacksaw is a sweetheart
Jim is Often Considered Amongst the Kindest & Nicest People in the World ... Nevermind Just Wrestling
Hate the character but the man is solid
and now he beat Cancer. truly a legend. Hoooooooooooooooo!
He was super over in WWF. Wasn't the greatest wrestler. But very entertaining
Companies like this, the WWA and 2002 TNA look like someone split the soul of WCW 2000 in several different parts.
And now AEW
It seems like many promotions have tried copy WCW since it went out of business but all failed.
mr10tomidnight .. then they technically succeeded in a way right?
@Max Mooney XPW, The Original MLW, 3PW, CZW
@@hansolo4864 Absolutely
XWF was a stop gap for guys waiting til their Turner contracts expire so they could sign with WWE.
ChiGuy251 Until some of them got tired and decided to sign with TNA
ChiGuy251 Hit the nail right on the head.
ChiGuy251 haha I doubt guys like hogan or Hennig were that desperate to return to the wwe at the time, both did in the end and look at what happened! With only one company in business it left lots and lots of talent in awkward positions so stuff like xwf appeared. Most wcw guys who came back or went there got buried, jobbed out or screwed in some form. I don’t blame Sting for holding out for a long ass time.
@@jeremyriley1238 wouldn't the Turner contracts be over if they signed with another company tho....
@@DrGanjameister exactly.... well kind of. When wcw was bought up, the guys still under contract were under contracts to Turner/ time Warner, unless they chose to allow wwe to buy it out, which they seen lil money from.
Jerry Lawler:
"I like cats, I like puppies and I love KITTENS!"
You sure do, Jerry.
SolidMike84 for a man accused of sexual assault of a minor, that did seem a slightly odd comment from Lawler
I keep coming back to this episode as well as the other videos in the "Promotional Graveyard" playlist because like the others, it's literally a 10/10 performance from start to finish.
If you aren't laughing your ass off the entire video, you can't be human. I really wish you could win awards for these cause it can't be stressed enough how funny and entertaining they are.
I often find myself quoting this episode by saying "IT REALLY COULD'VE BEEN SOMETHING" when talking about anything that didn't become something
Hogan saying "no more primadonnas" made me laugh so hard i had to pause the DVD back then as i watched it.
Yeah, in Hogan's mind, everybody else were the Prima Donnas, not him! LMAO!
Christian Vogt your sense of humor is objectively corny. 👎🏽
lmao
He was talking about those primadonnas Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels
The best quote to describe Ian Harrison comes from Adam Bibilo.
“He’s so hideous, and the most shocking fact...he’s still alive.”
An actual buff version of gillberg.
TheMadTurtle Immediately what I thought.
He's so ugly he can be a modern art master piece.
he's still alive in 2022 ... he's 53
18:34
If that team ever had a 5-star classic, the crowd would chant “Shock and Awe-Some”
They could take on Omega and Okada in Tokyo and still never get close to 5 stars.
If they did their stuff today in the indies and GCW, they could actually get super over.
'No More Primadonna's!!!'
Hulk Hogan is a walking, talking Oxymoron!!
In an old shoot, Scott Steiner expressed disappointment in not spending time with XWF.
"I would have given 141 and two-thirds percent", he uttered.
He then went to a local Shoney's to drown his "what if"s in the breakfast bar.
(Edited: Fixed fed acronym. Thanks, Mr. Keller!)
I was hoping for Brian to do a call back to his TNA promo when the math segment came up actually. Woulda been appropriate lol
Jay Wow. Are you my long lost twin or something? You know, that twin telepathy or whateva?
@@LuckyDT That's why I brought you over. To keep an eye on you.
Hahaha, this is some fantastic stuff, amicu. Happy Thanksgiving.
He was so satisfied that he bought that particular Shoney's.
@@CaitiffFTW Acworth, GA. Here we come!
"Christopher Daniels with Hair"... was that his name at the time...
Yes... After he shaved his head, he became just Christopher Daniels...
SCU!
It should be. He is one of those guys that should never have hair. Stone Cold, Bruce Willis, Kurt Angle and a few others immediately come to mind.
@@mikecabral2420 stunning steve austin looked pretty fly with hair
"Pre madonna, is that like before Madonna?"
He said Primadonna
It's a chicken or the egg situation we won't know
The worst tragedy of this video is Brian letting THE PERFECTLY GOOD SET OF DVDS JUST HIT THE FLOOR
Enjoyed this episode. Almost one step closer to XPW review.
Ya gotta build up tolerance before you can tackle something like that. We don't wanna kill him.
True. I don’t mind waiting. By the way I made a Linkin Park song reference.
Geop1992 He’s one step closer to the edge and he’s about to break?
@@devmo03 XPW will break him and he won't be the same. It happened to my cousin who was a tape collector. Now he just sits in a quiet corner, stares at the wall, drooling and mumbling "the puppy, the poor puppy".
@@evilubuntu9001 "hopefully he'll become so Numb that he won't it there"😏😏
Ian Harrison looks like the result of a one night stand between Davey Boy Smith and Scott Steiner.
Lmao
FAT ASSES! With 141 2/3% of a chance!
There's a 141 and 2/3 chance of that happening. Because he's a genetic freak!
HE'S FAT! No wait, no he isn't.
Lol yes. What a weird looking fellow. Just googled the bloke and he has muscles where I did not even know muscles could grow 😳
Next week on Keyfeb Cooking: An early 2000's upstart wrestling federation.
You'll need...
1-3 legends from the 80s-90s as on-screen personalities
1 legend from the 80s-90s who can still wrestle
1 legend from the 80s-90s who cannot still wrestle
1 fresh-faced indie wrestler that's a huge star today (I personally prefer A.J Styles, but C.M Punk, Seth Rollins, or Kevin Steen are fine substitutes)
Brian Knobbs
and the letter X!
Add former WCW talent to taste.
Also optional in the recipe are:
Hardcore BS
Random people who got dumped by WWE suddenly boosted to Main Babyface (ex: Tito Santana in AWF)
Booking so insane even Russo would tell you to tone it down
Celebrity involvement
Instantly wasting money
The iconic formula of the early 2000s 😂
Personally The Lost Episodes of the XWF holds a special place in my heart because it's the first wrestling DVD I ever purchased and watched all the way through
You don't understand. XWF coulda had class. XWF coulda been a contender. XWF coulda been somebody, instead of a bum promotion, which is what it was, let's face it.
Is this a quote from a movie? I think it was called the contender
@@lovetoswish123 raging bull I believe
@@neroameealucard945 on the water front I think now... Marlon Brando. Look up "I coulda been a contender" you'll see the clip.
I never thought id see an On the Water Front reference in wrestling....ever. You sir win the internet today
they faced it...it was always in their face.
"Mommy why is daddy shaking his fist and yelling?"
Interesting fact about XWF, The last world champion they had was the late Viscera.
The XWF also briefly existed as an extension of Memphis Wrestling in 2003-04
The belts were defended on TV and house shows. Being from Memphis, I remember watching this show and thinking, "What the hell is the XWF?"
Will Snyder good to hear another Memphian talk about wrestling 🤙💯.
yep! I remember this as well. I was at a show at the Coliseum in like 3rd or 4th grade and my aunt bought me an XWF t-shirt lol.
I Believe that Both Mabel and Jerry Lawler Each Held the Memphis Wrestling Version of the XWF Championship Title ... Which Was Actually the Cruiserweight Championship Title (the Only Championship Title in Existence - that We Knowof - & They'd Crowned in the Original's Existence)
No more prima donnas also featuring Hulk Hogan and Sable
I loved how Hogan said no prima donnas with absolutely no sense of irony or self awateness.
Also Buff Bagwell! 😂
@@davidjsaul I wonder if Buff's mommy called the XWF up too
@@IrishKyokushin, eh, Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Verne Gagne…the list goes on…
@@r.josedefraga1205 um, Shawn Michaels used to be a prima donna douche back in the 90s before he redeemed himself and cleaned up his act
A new video from you literally makes my day without a doubt
Omg, literally same.
THAT IS REALLY SAD JUST LIKE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN REALLY SAD
You ain't getting my 15%😂
GIVE ME THAT DAMN HAT!!!
YOU GREENHORN!!
I fucking love Big Haas McGraw. "Goddamn kids on my lawn. I don't trust them." 🤣🤣🤣
17:11 I guess you could also say that Marty Janetty in the XWF was a "Last Resort".
XWF was one of many promotions to start up from the ashes of WCW's and ECW's closings. You can almost do a whole video on all the fly by night promotions that started in that time period
“Say what you will about Snuka”
He’s a murderer.
A Superfly Murderer**
But tbh if it wasnt for him there wouldnt be the High-Flyer style in Wrestling
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure someone else would have came up with it eventually.
Cheers.
Pretty much all that needs to be said.
Who would you rather have as a tag team partner: Jimmy "Superfly Snuka", Chris Benoit, Ludvig Borga, or Invader #1?
Hogan's skin reminds me of a hotdog.
Sebastian Gomez that’s his patented look hot dog color skin with the silk like hair of a Chinese man
@@mrflores012 lol all the Thanksgiving food goes to you for that Always Sunny reference.
@VelvetKevorkian aayyyeee
Jason Voorhees reminds me of a little girl in pink dress sticking a hot dog through a doughnut.
@@printezstroman Duke. XD
Do a TNA Monday night wars review
I agree
Nishit Gautam why would he do that a war means that both sides were equal or at least comparable tna was never on wwe level so it was a massacre
I remember thinking that the TNA Monday Night wars was gonna be big. Shit. I was wrong.
Nishit Gautam Lol That Review Would Only Take 3 Minutes 😂🤣😹
Nishit Gautam every review ever is about the Monday night wars. If you don't know everything that happened with that and the fucking Montreal screwjob, just give up and watch a Fresh Prince of Bel Air marathon
“It’s pronounced Mille-Walk-Ay. “
“Does this guy know how to party or what?”
"look at this poor guy, he's so stoned he doesn't know what's going on right now."
yeah, me too...
"No more prima donnas!" Or maybe not brother I don't know
I love to see how big your channels gotten... you’re one of the biggest at this point in the TH-cam wrestling community. Keep it going !
... the pee corner... great intro lol
AOPP
Garunteed peed on
I was working for an indie fed in Wisconsin and Illinois (NAWF) and when the XWF did a show in Milwaukee they used our ring and we got to be ring crew and hang out behind the scenes.
When I first met Norman Smiley he was doing the dance backstage and me and my friend looked at each other and said “It’s a shoot!” I remember Piper, The Road Warriors, Big Vito, and Josh Matthews and Kid Cash.
Also, props to Josh Matthews for taking like 50 chops from Kid Cash. It was brutal.
No more prima donnas......Then Why the hell were Hulk Hogan and Sable here?!
Don't forget Buff Bagwell..he had 1 shot in wwe...and he blew it 🤣🤣🤣
Does the WWE own these
14:08 sums up the hypocrisy of this federation quite nicely
@@arlopear7136 yeah I guess it does brother
Maybe it's a no homers type deal "no more primadonnas...uhh,we're allowed two"
LUKE: I
Hey there, Luke, Oli, El Fakidor, and the rest of the -WrestleTwats- WrestleTalk gang.
*THE* *OTHER* *ONE*
I would win WrestleLeague
Wrestletalk.... yucko
the GLAH-GEYs still runnin' wild!
I don't know why I never made the connection before... but Brian is like the wrestling version of the angry video game nerd. There's a lot of similarities in production and setup. Just now realizing this after years of watching both.
Yup cringey
@@bls8959 prima donnas
piper is the best part of anything
Piper sucks
@@atapjay3533 you suck
Thank You And Welcome To Everyone....... YOU HAD ONE JOB SABLE I MEAN RENA DAMMIT
Given some of the other post-WCW stuff you’ve reviewed before this honestly didn’t seem THAT bad.
Long time watcher, first time commenter. I think there is another DVD set with all ten episodes that Highspots and Jimmy Hart put out later than the set you have. Can't find it at the moment to check the dates. The Alice Cooper - Milwaukee moment was a nice touch as Milwaukee was the location of one of the few house shows they ran. I was there. The ring was supplied by Jake Milliman (of AWA 'fame'). Had an amusing moment when we realized Vampiro and Norman Smiley were ahead of us in the line for concessions. I remember feeling bad for Greg Valentine as he could barely move back then. I still have the t shirt.
I think one of the big things up and coming promotions can learn from this is not to be too reliant/dependant on *big names* to sell your brand.
It's best to use them sparingly, whilst building your up your roster of lesser known/new talent.
I got the feeling they used some of the bigger names like Curt Hennig, Bobby Heenan, Roddy Piper and Greg Valentine well enough. Just seems like almost everyone else (including, obviously Sable and Hogan) shouldn't really be there and their spots could have been given to the new guys to get them built up and over if they weren't already.
When I saw this on my feed I was like "Wait, didn't W3 already cover this?" Then I saw it was from just yesterday, and realized "Oh, that's right, someone else did it...maybe the Attitude Era Podcast?" ...and then I get a minute into this video. Wonderful. Splendid. 10/10 video.
Somehow I just knew that he would bring Adam and Kefin into this video. The XWF episode was one of the first times I’ve ever heard Adam contemplate death.
"Prima Donna? Is that before Madonna?" 😂😅
Gotta love that loop of the first 3 seconds of the beautiful people
I mixed this up with XPW and expected porn in my wrasslin.
"No more primadonnas"
Says one of the biggest cry babies in the history of professional wrestling.
I'll give it this, at least the XWF's goal wasn't meant to bring wrestling back to it's roots.
Brian Zane you are the man. Nobody make's a wrestling show like you. Very informative, witty and all round class. Keep up the good work from a big fan in the UK.
Those DVDs were the first bit of wrestling I ever watched as a kid. I actually got my copy from Brian Knobbs himself. I sat next to him at a baseball game. I can't believe anyone else knows what this is.
Love The Nasty Boys
Currently was watching your videos and the best thing happened. You updated me with a new video! My man Zane!
It's just like
It's just like
a mini-MALL!
I went to the house show for XWF in Amarillo and it was a pretty enjoyable time. There was quit a lot of talent that from what can tell was not on the DVD. Such Rey Mysterio.
"most of them beating up Marty janetty, very old school" lol
What better way to enjoy Thanksgiving than to eat turkey while watching a wrestling turkey.
What is this sentence?
Am I having a stroke?
You need to watch Survivor Series 1990 for proper turkey experience
WormyJester8 That’s a Gooker. There’s s difference.
W3, AE, AND STEVE AND LARSON IN 1 VIDEO. IT IS THANKSGIVING!!!
PowerPackers90 yeah Lerson is amazing
@@kingjaz7708 hey typos are hell man
Happy thanksgiving!
Wrestling with wregret is now the ric flair of TH-cam, putting over the new talent.
21:01 - 'THE Horace Hogan? Mr 1998?!'
*OSW Review heads might get this one*
My name is Josh. Thank you for an amazing soundbite.
Josh here, saying I agree with Josh's statement. Back to you Josh.
Jesus Christ was actually named Josh.
Mean Gene’s (RIP) expression had me laughing too much🤣
I guess it's kinda legendary that they had Rock n Roll's greatest icons
I had never heard of XWF until now.
And now, after seeing this. I understand why.
16: 02 - Want to ruin a Wrestling promotion? Just start off with Buff Bagwell and you're done!
He may be buff but he ain’t the stuff.
Show some compassion! His mother was on a fork lift!
a 25 minute video!!!!
thank you so much and happy thanksgiving brian!
Looked like the pre-cursor to TNA
It basically was lol
the green screen segments look like a tim and eric sketch
Spagett!!!
Living rooms, bedrooms, dianets, best ringtone ever!!!
Another promotion who had all the potential in the world, but squandered it
A nearly 30 minute episode of WwW?, This might be the best damn thanks-giving of all time.
Saw cat box, realize you have a cat and have hidden this cat from us.We demand pictures of cat!
I agree!!!
Glad you did this one. I own the ring used XWF world heavyweight championship belt. What that promotion could have been is so interesting to me.
That's fascinating that you own the belt! How did you end up getting that?
Wrestling With Wregret I am friends with a lot of belt collectors and just a few months ago one of them were selling the ring used world heavyweight belt held by Viscera and Jerry the King Lawler and I bought it from him. There are 3 in existence that JMar (the belt maker made) but only one was ring used and the other 2 were supposed to be back ups (which obviously weren’t needed) The ring used one that I own is the only one with a 6th logo plate and many more bolts in the back than the other two that other private collectors own. It is a very cool belt to own indeed. It was also used in Puerto Rico when they did the storyline of XWF invading a Mexican wrestling promotion.
I thought this was XPW but I'll take it!
Me too
Same.
the one owned by the porn producer that ended up being the fusion of CZW and ECW?
@@SAM-ru4vx Yep!
Was that the one on MTV ?
19:37 had me crying 😂🤣 “Josh”
21:30 "Where's the fucking music?!"
I fucking died. Where is the original source?
Steve, Larson, and the AE Podcast? I’m all for it.
Before joining the XWF Vapor went by the name Reika Saiki, he and Samoa Joe captured the International Tag Team Championship on June 14, 2001 in Pro Wrestling Zero1, just holding the belts for 25 days. During 2003 he was signed by the WWE renamed Sakoda, until his release in August of '04.
Most diverse wrestling channel in terms.of content coverage..
"Featuring the Road Warriors, Roddy Piper, Curt Hennig, Bobby Heenan, *AJ STYLES,* Vampiro, Psychosis..."
One of those guys seems a little out of place...
Remember he was contracted by WCW in 2001 so he's not that out of place here
One of these things is not like the other
Yeah Bobby Heenan was a manager.
Duh. The road warriors were a tag team.
If you want to convince people that your wrestling DVDs are classic and important, interrupt the wrestling footage constantly with two jerks explaining that this is really classic and important, works like a charm.
Now I feel a Hogan knows best review coming...
Damn how many short lived federations were a thing during the 90-2000's?
I remember 5
I Generation Pro
WWAS
Wrestling Society X
Ring of Glory
this
It seems that in the 2000s, there were a ton of short lived federations. Most I've never even heard of, like this one! lol
The first run of MLW also counts as short lived from the early 2000s in a way, since the promotion closed for about 13 years
Why did u have to play a game of chicken with Bill watts 😂😂😂 omg I'm dying
Yay! Hooray! Brian said Amarillo! Yay! That's where I live! I live in Amarillo! Yaaayyy!
This is comedy gold! My new favorite channel on youtube! The Hogan Knows Best reviews were amazing!
Please continue making more videos like this, I absolutely love learning about defunct federations like this. Keep up the great work :)
That willie Nelson interview was the best thing about xwf
Ah yes, my favorite wrestler; JOSH
I'm your favorite, makes my day better!
AKA JAH-AH-AH-OSH
I got confused for a bit..I thought this was the hardcore XPW fed
"Welcome to Everyone"
"Stones might sink, and rocks may fall," gotta love the jab towards Steve Austin and Dwayne Johnson 😂😂
"Oh, no. Divorce can be hard, sometimes." ROFL.
Steve and Larson's cameo was hilarious!
I got REALLY EXCITED when the AE Podcast guys started showing up. I've been a huge fan for awhile now. How2Wrestling is also fantastic.
7:52 That's the Wall, brother! Hey Wall!
Deadlock gang?
deadlock gang.
Please for the love of god do an episode on xpw
HAHA! At first that is what I thought this was until he said wcw lite.