Kevin Kleinrock, founder, writer and producer of Wrestling Society X appeared on the December 17th edition of the LAW radio show out of Canada.  The entire show can be listened to on their website (http://www.liveaudiowrestling.com/), here is a recap of Mr. Kleinrock's interview…

Out of the gate the LAW host asks about the MTV Project, professional wrestling, rock and roll, and Vince McMahon use of them in the early 1980s.  Is Wrestling Society X the next rock and wrestling connection in 2006?  Kevin replies "Well, only in so much as it's a way to present wrestling in a way this is not only going to appeal to wrestling fans but trying to bridge that gap, how to we as a wrestling community get more people to see wrestling, and to see a style of wrestling that is more modern and is more entertaining in our opinions and that's hopefully going to translate well to the general MTV audience in addition to the wrestling fans who will hopefully find the show as is." 

About the rock performances on the show "Even though there is a music component to the show, as people will quickly find out as the episodes start airing, the music component really is only less then a minute of the show.  We open the show with a band playing, and the only other music hook to it is members of that band will be joining our hosts on guest commentary for the week.  And though the style of the show is punk rock, underground, fight club meets pro wrestling – definitely this is not a show where we have thirty minutes and fifteen or twenty will be devoted to the music side of things.  Professional wrestling first and foremost.  This is a pro wrestling show"

The host talked about the more modern and entertaining style of WSX, to go along extreme style of exploding coffins and exploding cage time bomb death match "Actually, that (the explosions) is a really small part of it, I think in terms of overall style it's a much faster paced style of wrestling.  You got all these great young talented athletes from Teddy Hart, Jack Evans, Matt Sydal, Human Tornado, and Scorpio Sky.  All these guys who are going out there and wrestling a style that's not what you are seeing in the WWE, its somewhat like you are seeing a little bit in TNA with some of the X-Division stuff.  We have 30 minutes to go out there and put on the most entertaining 30 minutes we can.  A lot of people have commented so far 'what can you do in 30 minutes, and how are you going to fit actual matches into a thirty minute show' when you look at what the WWE does on Raw, or what TNA is doing, most of their matches air on TV weekly don't break the five minute mark.  WWE usually has matches that are between two and five minutes and then they will have a few that break the five minute mark.  Really, our goal, what we set forth to do is just to provide a more entertaining five minute match and that still means a technical wrestling match.  Everything is still professional wrestling.  This is not a music show or anything else first, it's a professional wrestling show that's being customized to what we think the average American, the average audience that's not watching wrestling currently in addition to wrestling fans are really going to gravate towards."

The host asks about Vampiro's involvement in the project as he's a performer and one of the writers/bookers of the WSX.  "The project really came about almost two and a half years ago the seeds were planted.  I had the idea of this punk rock meets wrestling concept.  It was one of those things where I had the idea and I wrote it down in my computer and literally it just sat there.  About a year later, Houston Curtis who is the CEO of Big Vision Entertainment who I work for was getting ready to go into MTV to pitch another TV show.  And I literally said to him in passing 'Hey, I got this idea that might be good for MTV maybe someday down the road we will go in there and give it a pitch.' Houston said to tell him about it now, I gave him the concept and he thought it was something we should go in and pitch.  We worked on the pitch together and we both went in and pitched both shows at the same time, and that was August of 2005.  In February (2006) we did the pilot.  I met Vampiro personally and worked with him when I was doing XPW, we stayed in contact over the years, and he's somebody I really enjoyed working with.  If you are going to do a rock and roll wrestling promotion, he's one of, if not the first guy who comes to mind.  In addition to the fact he's got an incredible mind for the business. He's got a lot of reputation out there.  One of the best think about having him and Cody Michaels who works with us behind the scenes on board was we had a lot to do in one week when we came out here.  We had to film nine episodes and we did forty five matches in the course of a week with guys who were used to maybe doing one or two matches a week and never having to get thru putting together and thinking about eight or nine matches.  They (Vampiro & Cody) did an incredible job of doing the agenting of all the matches.  At the end of  our tapings so many of the younger guys came up to me or emailed me talking about how much it meant to them to have those veterans there who were willing to give them some of their knowledge and passing on their knowledge.  The team effort that everyone put in, to make this project everything we thought it could be.  We, at Big Vision and the MTV executives have been so excited about how well the show actually came off.  None of us really knew what it was going to look like at the end, and it exceeded all of our expectations" 

When will Canada experience WSX?  Kevin said he did not know if it was official but the Calgary Sun (http://calsun.canoe.ca/Sports/OtherSports/2006/12/16/2823824-sun.html)  reported on Saturday, WSX would be starting in Canada on the same night as it does at in America.  Wrestling Society X will debut Jan. 30 at 8:30 p.m. on MTV Canada, and 10:30 p.m EST in America on MTV.