What happened between ECW and XPW?
In 2000 when ECW decided to promote a pay per view in Lose Angeles, CA for the first time the indy group XPW started making statements that ECW was on their “turf” and that they would disrupt ECW’s upcoming PPV. ECW was taking big financial risks by promoting the show in California and felt that XPW was just a small indy fed who was trying to get themselves over at ECW’s expense. So when XPW wrestlers showed up at the PPV, ECW was ready for them. As the PPV was starting, XPW wrestlers made their way to the front row where they managed to to get tickets for. During the PPV they wore XPW shirts and shouted at the wrestlers but things got too serious when one of XPW’s valets pushed ECW’s Francine. After this all hell broke loose and a bunch of ECW wrestlers ran down to ringside and started fighting with the XPW wrestlers. The fight was continued in the parking lot where the ECW guys beat the XPW guys easily. The whole confrontation didn’t help XPW though since most of the fans didn’t know