[2000-10-07-CZW-Rules Were Made To Be Broken] Nick Gage vs Wifebeater vs Madman Pondo (No Rope Barbed Wire)

[soup23]

Audio is nearly unlistenable on this. Nick Gage calls everyone a retard and then asks them to stand up and worship him. POndo comes out and gives a rah rah promo. Date on the camera says 10/7 which makes sense as it wouldn’t be taped on a Tuesday so I am going with that date. This is mostly a gore fest with POndo and Wifebeater who are two of my least favorite death matches workers that get a ton of buzz. That being said, some of the bumps into the wire were disgusting here and Wifebeater has a blade job for the ages. Scissors come into play again. Pondo gets wrapped in barbed wire and gets plastered with chairs by Gage and Beater. Hatred comes in and hits a glass box against Pondo’s head. Beater then powerbombs Gage on top of Pondo and we have a new Iron Man champion. Another big Gage promo afterward where he says he was screwed, makes some terrible slurs and then asks everyone to bow down again. Eric and John House sign off the show. *1/2

[AstroBoy]

This is kind of hard to judge traditionally but, you know what, the hate was there.  And they went balls out with the crazy spots.  Some real good spots with the wire early on and the stuff with the scissors was pretty grisly.

 

**

[Tim Evans]

This was pretty damn violent. Felt more violent than a lot of the deathmatches in 2000. Wifebeater breaks the muta scale and Pondo does the Foley 99 thing with Barb wire which looked very painful. Not a bad match.

[GSR]

The audio is worse than usual tonight.  Nick Gage wants all the retards, scumbags and under age children to get off their feet and bow to the future of hardcore.  Pondo is out and he corrects something Gage said, saying how ‘we’ are the Iron Man champion as they both pinned Wifebeater at the same time and he himself has never been beaten for the title.  That’s some serious back acne on Beater.  The ring ropes have been replaced with barbed wire and they’re not messing around, Gage and Beater teaming up to hot shot Pondo onto the barbed wire within the opening twenty seconds.  Beater whips Gage hard into the wire and this must be wrapped tight because there’s no give like you would usually expect.  Gage helps his ‘co-champion’ as he is having his head carved up and they front suplex Beater into the barbed wire.  This stuff looks legit sharp and Wifebeater is shirtless as normal so that won’t have been nice.  Pondo with a cutter on Gage, dropping him across the barbed wire which finally does for one side of the ring.  A pair of scissors then come in to play, Pondo pulling them out and slicing Beater across the forehead.  Fuck, this is nasty!  Gage has a sharp object of his own which he jabs into Wifebeater’s upper arm.  He makes the cover after a brainbuster which Pondo breaks up using a pumpkin.  Gage is the only one not bleeding although that doesn’t last for much longer, Pondo’s scissors rectifying that.  The Madman sits Gage on a chair at ringside and then wipes him out with a dive from the ring and over the barbed wire to the floor.  Beater wastes the pumpkin, quickly followed by a chair, over Pondo’s head.  Gage whips Beater with the barbed wire while Eric Gargiulo informs us that the EMT’s are in position should Wifebeater not be able to continue due to all the blood loss.  As it looks like Pondo and Gage are prepared to keep working together, Gage turns on the Madman.  Maybe they should’ve continued that pact as Wifebeater gets a second wind, catching Gage with a deep powerslam.  He rips apart one side of the barbed wire ring and wraps that around Pondo, trapping his arms in the process.  With Pondo helpless, Beater whacks the barbed wire with a chair and is joined in doing so by Gage.  Nate Hatred is out and he goes to hit Wifebeater with some object, but Beater ducks and he accidentally nails Pondo instead.  ‘Choke-N-Stein’ to Gage, planting him on top of Pondo, and the Wifebeater is the new CZW Iron Man champion.  Gage may have lost but he’s not done, using some tasteful and colourful language to seemingly make an open challenge to anyone in the crowd, only to go and slip as he leaves the ring!

One of the nastiest matches of the year with them just carving each other up and taking some sick bumps into (and onto) the barbed wire.  You really got the feeling that these three were wanting to hurt each other and no-one took the quiet route here, even Pondo, who I normally can’t stand, got colour, did a dive over the barbed wire to the floor before getting wrapped in it and walloped with chair shots.  Talking of getting colour, Wifebeater did one almighty blade job, not quite Steve Corino levels but not far off and up there for the year in that respect.  Something that won’t be for everyone, although we may have finally found that elusive good Madman Pondo match.