10 "Major" Wrestling Promotions That Never Got Off The Ground
5. Wrestling Society X
There was a ton of buzz when it was announced that MTV was getting into the pro wrestling game. Could their product finally be the real competition to WWE that the industry so desperately needed? Something that would feel modern, compared to TNA's frustratingly backward booking?
Unfortunately, Wrestling Society X didn't achieve the success to be anything but a footnote in wrestling history. Despite some good talent, including Matt Classic (Colt Cabana), Matt Sydal, Puma (T.J. Perkins), Ricky Banderas (Mil Muertes), and Tyler Black (Seth Rollins), the show's ratings were so weak that the tenth and final episode of the first and only season never actually aired.
Why did the show flop so hard? The fact that it aired opposite ECW on SciFi, which, for all its weaknesses, was still a WWE show, surely didn't help. Nevertheless, the most damaging quality of all was likely the fact that, according the general consensus, the show just wasn't very good.