To Guest 6470:
Shut your fat ignorant mouth, junior! WSX may not have been perfect, but it was still salvageable. Personally, I'd like to see the following changes to Wrestling Society X, should the show ever come back (even though I doubt they ever will, but nonetheless):
1. Find a network NOT called MTV that will treat the show with dignity and respect. This'd be a bit difficult, seeing as MTV owned the rights to the brand, last time I checked, but if the gang at Big Vision Entertainment can attain the rights (if you haven't already), get back as many of the original alumni as they can (which would also be tough, seeing as many of the guys were forced into retirement due to either age or injury or have gone on to other things such as WWE), add some newer faces to the crowd, and take their time in putting on a solid, well-paced program that showed how much they'd learned from their mistakes from back in 2006/07, then they might be able to find a network that would air their product.
2. Find a more appropriately constructed arena to stage your matches in that will fit a larger audience than the original WSX Bunker did and that won't turn naysayers off--something like the Bully Beatdown arena, for example.
3. Train your announcers to do a better job than they did. I didn't mind Fabian Kaelin myself, but most other wrestling fans who watched the show found him to be a little too loud and over the top than they could stand. Likewise, Bret Ernst in particular needed coaching in how to add color commentary to a match. Sorry, Bret, but that reference to Sean "6-Pac" Waltman being one of the "original" members of DX when D-Generation X originally started out with only HBK, HHH, and Chyna was a little embarrassing. Oh, and no musical guests stars joining Bret and Kris at the commentator's table...ever...or even just being on the show at all. Those segments took away more from the show than they added.
4. Land a timeslot that lasted a FULL hour rather than half an hour. That thirty-minute timeslot really killed the show, IMO, as the production team had to clip matches and non-wrestling segments just to fit everything in, and the whole thing really hurt them in the end.
5. PROVIDE BETTER BOOKING! This is a big one in that the wrestling was good, and the storylines were more sound than detractors would otherwise suggest, but the writing itself kind of backfired when the matches became spot fests and the angles took awkward turns that, while they were still easy to follow, would have made more sense of they were only executed with a bit more finesse. Kevin Kleinrock was no Vince Russo, necessarily, but his head and the heads of the other members of the WSX booking committee were so far up MTV's corporate carcass that they didn't think clearly and ended up putting on a show that was too wild, chaotic, and--in the minds of many a critic--sloppy to be considered watchable. Hopefully, however, the WSX booking team could focus their product to appeal more to the diehard wrestling fan and less to the stereotypically brain-dead MTV viewer, then WSX as a whole would have more of a chance.
6. Institute a women's division. The one aspect of WSX that would have made it look more like its own product than an ECW "rip-off" would have been its Chix Division, which would have been presented in Season 2, had MTV ever allowed it as opposed to cancelling the whole show after not even six weeks and nine out of ten episodes. They could bring back Sara Del Rey, Lizzie Valentine (who'll be showcased on Lucha Libre USA Masked Warriors season 2 this coming summer, as I've read on diva-dirt.com), and Lacey as well as introduce Mickie Knuckles as planned among several other women to compete for the WSX Chix title. h**l, they could try and coax Shantelle Taylor out of retirement and help Dark Angel Sarah Stock out of her contract with TNA so that she, too, could join and be in a place where she'd be treated with more respect than she is now and leave TNA's KO Division for such losers as The Beautiful People, Mickie James, "Tara," and Becky "Cookie" Bayless. Also, so long as the bookers treat the Chix more like Shimmer, WSU, and the Female Fight League treat their women and less like the way WRETCH-alicious treated its girls, I bet you the division would be a smash hit.
7. Stay away from the things that made WSX too "out there" for most diehard wrestling fans to get over, such as the unnecessary explosions and electrocutions, the abundance of too many uber-dangerous stunts, and all the unhyped and underhyped gimmick matches (e.g., the Piranha Tank Deathmatch and Exploding Cage Time Bomb Deathmatch from the unaired season finale). You can still be wild and crazy, but don't be so outlandish. Make the action seem a little more controlled and realistic and let the wrestlers do what they do best without the need for excessive insanity.
Of course, those are only the top seven tips I'd give the folks behind Wrestling Society X if they ever decided to bring the show back. I'll admit, the show wasn't flawless by any means, but even back then, it was still more watchable than the c**p WWE and especially TNA have been putting on these past few years, and if WSX ever came back--an unlikely occurrance, as I've said before, but not an unfeasible one--I'd welcome it back with open arms...
...them and David McLane's Women of Wrestling from 2000-2001...and probably even GLOW...but hey, that's just my taste. Just so long as we get an alternative to WWE and TNA [back] on the air, I'd be happy.
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