Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF)

[5.0] "God Bless Herb Abrams (RIP). Whilst this promotion wasn't a great one, you can't deny that Herb Abrams wasn't ambitious. He thought a little outside the box. But Herb's only problems were a). his inexperience running a wrestling company. And b). his love for a certain white powdery substance. I think UWF shot for the stars a little too early in terms of competing with WWF and WCW."

"UWF had big dreams and unfortunately it failed. It is an interesting part of wrestling history that isn't as bad as many might say. The cards are filled with big names and the video production is very professional. They paid the talent well and we could use more promotions like this today to get indie wrestlers tv exposure and good pay checks."

[6.0] "A very interesting promotion. It wasn't as bad as people said it is. At least in the beginning of it. Herb Abrams was decent booker and very impassioned about pro wrestling. The roster was very good. Herbs Abrams was a suprisingly decent commentator. Bruno was an odd choice and really didn't work on commentary. Nonetheless, there are decent matches and early on was a very put together show and could've been a decent competitor. It's a shame about all the stuff that happened with Herb Abrams. It would've been interesting to see Herb Abrams in a better state and see what it would've been like around the Attitude era. Not worthy of being considered the worst promotion ever."

[2.0] "What was the point of this promotion. Why would one choose to watch this shit. It used WWF and WCW midcarders from 5 years ago and indie wrestlers no one cared about and made something that did nothing but ruin the good name of Bill Watts and his UWF. Utterly disgraceful, the in ring product was mediocre at best and the TV was horribly produced. 2/10. Worthless promotion."

[4.0] "A promotion that was plagued by bad booking (and that is WITHOUT Vince Russo) but a promotion with count out finishes and so many convoluted storylines. And Herb Abrams (God rest his soul) tried so hard to make it good."

[5.0] "I watched almost this entire run and I only give it points for the nostalgia value of "I wonder what ever happened to.... " The production and matches were second rate. Sunny Beach as a champion? Whew, yeah this was tough to stomach."

[2.0] "Founded with the mission statement that it would bring wrestling back to its roots and go against the WWF and WCW, the Herb Abrams UWF instead was a debacle from the start, and often more a cocaine-fueled fever dream than a viable wrestling promotion. Poor promotion (at one point drawing 600 fans to the 20k-seat MGM Grand), amateurish production values, relying far too much on the name value of past-their-prime stars, often baffling booking (shows from the times the company was booked by the unlikely choice of experimental rock musician Zoogz Rift often seemed actually more logical than when Abrams was doing it himself), a promoter trying to make himself into a star, talent being paid late or not at all, and a name "borrowed" from a far better promotion (which Bill Watts never bothered to trademark). Against all logic, the promotion somehow managed to survive over half a decade, only officially dying off with Abrams himself, and it did serve as an odd stopping point for a few still-viable between-promotions talent like Cactus Jack, Steve Williams, Bam Bam Bigelow and Sid Vicious, from whom there were a handful of quality matches provided. One of the objectively-worst promotions of the '90s, but one with an absolutely fascinating story."

[0.0] "The classic example of how not to be a successful wrestling promotion. Poor lighting, booking buildings with very poor promotion, not paying talent adequately or at all, over-reliance on old names, television matches NEVER had clean finishes, young talent not particularly good... These are all ways in which the Abrams UWF failed. Perhaps the worst run promotion in modern history."