Xtreme Pro Wrestling
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| Acronym | XPW |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Defunct | 2009 |
| Style |
Hardcore wrestling Sports entertainment |
| Headquarters |
Southern California Philadelphia Pittsburgh |
| Founder(s) | Rob Zicari |
| Owner(s) | Tom Byron |
| Parent |
Extreme Associates (1999–2003) Xtreme Entertainment Group (2004–2008) Big Vision Entertainment (2008–2012) Rob Black Entertainment (2012–2013) |
| Xtreme Pro Wrestling | |
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| Country of origin |
 United States
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| Release | |
| Original release | 2001 – 2003 |
| Cold Day in Hell | |
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Theme song(s) |
"Keep Moving On" by Five Victims Four Graves |
| Information | |
| Promotion | Xtreme Pro Wrestling |
| Date | May 24, 2008 |
| Venue | Aviation Park |
| City | Redondo Beach, California |
Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) was an American independent professional wrestling promotion in Los Angeles owned by Rob Zicari. Zicari appeared on shows as the on-camera owner under the name Rob Black alongside his wife Lizzy Borden. The promotion focused on hardcore wrestling, and under Zicari, it had connections to the Los Angeles porn industry as real life owner of Extreme Associates. From 2000 to 2002, XPW held an annual deathmatch tournament called Baptized in Blood.
In 2002, Shane Douglas returned to XPW, and the "All-New XPW" was relocated in Pennsylvania. Thanks to promotional efforts on the part of Shane Douglas and Cody Michaels, the East Coast invasion featured XPW garnering some success in cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Big Vision Entertainment held two XPW reunion shows, Cold Day In Hell in May 2008 and XPW X in August 2009.
XPW was founded in the summer of 1999 on the West Coast, particularly Los Angeles, California. The promotion based its style around hardcore wrestling, featuring many violent matches reminiscent of the Japanese death matches popularized overseas. In addition, XPW kept a huge focus on the soap opera aspect of wrestling, as the storylines involved porn stars, alternative lifestyles, profanity, and sadistic violence. The first show was on July 31, 1999. The announce team for XPW consisted of Kris Kloss and Larry Rivera, with Kloss doing the play-by-play and Rivera taking on the role as a heel color commentator. Kloss's trademark was screaming expletives or shrieking a high pitched scream when something shocking occurred in a match, typically ruining the effect of the high spot. Rivera often sided with Rob Black, and his trademark announcing consisted of referring to Kloss as "chico", using "chico" in nearly all of his sentences, and occasional wandering into Spanish announcing. In this period, the promotion's main stars were homegrown wrestlers, but many former stars of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) passed through XPW following the fall of that promotion.
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