YMMV / Wrestling Society X

• Narm:
  • Matt Sydal. Evan Bourne really can't play a heel.
  • The Stuff Blowing Up nature of the show lent itself more to muffled mockery by a lot of more serious pro wrestling fans than the over-the-top production values were trying to accomplish. Pro wrestling is inherently over-embellished, sure, but WSX basically went hog-wild with the concept to undesired ends. According to Kevin Kleinrock, much of the over-embellishment was mandated by MTV, who wanted explosions and crazy stunts in every episode.
• Never Live It Down: If you've heard of this promotion, it's either because it hired people to be in the stands because real wrestling fans weren't attractive enough for them or because of its Totally Radical production values.
• Nightmare Fuel: "The Transformation of Fabian Kaelin" featurette included on the DVD release. The creepy video and echo effects only make the ending where Fabian severs his tongue with a butcher knife worse.
• Retroactive Recognition: Many wrestlers who have been signed to WWE or at least become more well known.
  • Matt Sydal became Evan Bourne then went back to being Matt Sydal.
  • Tyler Black is now Seth Rollins
  • Matt Classic is the more well-known these days Colt Cabana.
  • Matt Cross later got a bit more mainstream attention by appearing on the Tough Enough revival. He went on to become Son of Havoc on Lucha Underground.
    • Lucha Underground also adopted Ricky Banderas (Mil Muertes), Vampiro, Lil' Cholo (Mr. Cisco/Mala Suerte), Delikado (Bael), Jack Evans, Joey Ryan, and referee Rick Knox.
  • DIFH arguably served as the prototype for the Ring of Honor stable The Age of the Fall.
    • Josh Raymond would also show up in ROH a few years later as one half of the original House of Truth tag team.
  • Puma, who appeared in a few episodes, later became more well-known as first one of TNA's many portrayers of Suicide (and the only one to portray the revamped version of the character, Manik), then as TJ Perkins, winner of WWE's first Cruiserweight Classic tournament.
  • Fabian Kaelin (AKA Ryan Katz) works backstage for WWE as a producer.
  • Along with the Age of the Fall mentioned above, Jimmy Jacobs has worked pretty much everywhere, most recently for All Elite Wrestling as a writer.
• So Bad, It's Good: It was obvious that this is more TV show than wrestling promotion, but the special effects, bad camera angles, and musical guests that knew nothing about wrestling added to the fun of watching MTV try and do a wrestling show.
• Spiritual Successor: To XPW, as Kevin Kleinrock created both. In turn, Lucha Underground is one to it, as they share some of the same concepts as well as several roster members.
• Too Good to Last: A mainstream wrestling show that highlighted several talented indie workers, with good production values and quality wrestling as well as a unique set up. It admittedly was quite off in the first few episodes but found its feet eventually before getting abruptly cancelled (see the main page for details). The concept was later successfully revived for Lucha Underground.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The Totally Radical aesthetic, the set and ring design, and the street clothes worn by the announcers and wrestlers backstage (and some of their ring gear) immediately pinpoint this to a 2000s setting.