XWF Episode #3 (November 13, 2001)

This is the third and final episode of the XWF as presented on this here DVD. They apparently taped more episodes than what appears on this DVD set and also ran some house shows in addition to doing a whole-ass invasion angle in Puerto Rico, so it’s possible I might somehow end up watching more XWF stuff at some point, but the likelihood of that is slim to none so let’s check how they went and wrapped things up.

XWF Episode #2 (November 13, 2001)

Might as well watch the second episode of the XWF. The first one, while not great by any stretch of the imagination also wasn’t so awful as to put me off from watching the remainder of the series so let’s get to it.

XWF Episode #1 (November 13, 2001)

One of my favorite things to do on this here webpage is to review defunct, short-lived wrestling promotions and that’s just what we’re going to be doing today as we take a look at the XWF, one of the myriad wrestling companies that arose after WCW and ECW folded in 2001. The company did some TV tapings and even ran some house shows but never secured a TV deal, apparently due to the fact that the bulk of their big names had been signed to the WWE between the time of the tapings and the show being shopped to networks. Several years later in 2005, a 3 disc DVD set collecting some, but not all of the matches taped for TV was released. It’s the first installment of that DVD set that I’m looking at today.

WCW Monday Nitro – Night of Champions (March 26, 2001)

In my possession I have an external hard drive with a lot of random-ass wrestling shows on it. It’s mostly stuff that I had on VHS and converted to digital some years back. Some of it’s kind of obscure stuff: random 90s Japanese death match tapes, tapes from my local indie federation, etc. but the bulk of it I could probably delete at this point since the WWE Network has them all in higher definition. Today we’re looking at something from the latter rather than the former. Today we’re going to take a look at the March 26, 2001 episode of WCW Monday Nitro.

WWF Invasion (July 22, 2001)

It’s time for the Invasion. I somehow missed out on this when it happened and haven’t seen it since, but I know its reputation. Everyone does. Does the Invasion deserve the amount of shit that’s been heaped upon it? Let’s find out!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt kicks things off for us, talking about war as clips of WCW and ECW dudes invading WWF are shown. This is really a weird way to kick off a PPV. Fireworks happen. JR welcomes to the Gund Arena as we get down to the ring for action.