When the 2nd half of Dark Side of the Ring’s season 3 airs later this year, one episode will focus on XPW. Xtreme Pro Wrestling was a promotion run by Rob Black (Rob Zicari) from 1999 until 2003.
Black recently announced plans to reboot the promotion with a tournament on November 7th, 2021. In a video released by Black yesterday, Marty Scurll was teased as the first entrant in the tournament. It is not clear if Scurll will have anything at all to do with the show, however.
No venue or broadcast deal has been announced for the show.
UPDATE:
Others have reached out as well to say that Marty Scurll will not be on the show. Rob Black has continued to Tweet on the matter:
XPW – Dark Side of the Ring
It is possible Black is hoping to build on the publicity his former promotion will gain from the Dark Side of the Ring episode scheduled to air later this year. The following topics will air in the second half of season 3:
- The WWE Steroid Trials
- FMW
- Luna Vachon
- WWE’s Plane Ride from Hell
- XPW
- Johnny K-9 (Bruiser Bedlam)
- Chris Kanyon
The other promotion scheduled to be featured in the second half of season 3, FMW, has also announced a reboot. Atsushi Onita has announced FMWE will run a show later this month.
“The meaning of E is explosion,” Onita said. “It is an explosion. It is an organization specializing in hardcore that is said in the world. There is a request to see an electric current blast in the United States, and we are doing an electric current blast all over the world.”