Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted March 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Hey Richie, you should've put a picture of the cage from the last match in your review up, I'm curious to see what a "makeshift cage you were scared would break when he climbed down" looks like. Â Also what's this "carpet strips" business? As far as I'm aware I've never seen this gimmick and it's cropped up a couple of times here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Hey Richie, you should've put a picture of the cage from the last match in your review up, I'm curious to see what a "makeshift cage you were scared would break when he climbed down" looks like. Â Â I may have over sold the shitness of the cage, but it was shit. The panels looked like they could easily fall apart when they got hit. You know when wrestlers do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted March 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Cheers Richie, that cage does look pretty ghetto. Â I was imagining the carpet strips being actual strips of carpet! I assumed dudes were getting carpet burns with them, How innocent of me, those things look lethal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rule One Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) It's not as good as Richie's and sorry for the lack of pictures/screen caps. I was going to grab them from former CZW photographers websites but they no longer host them. However there are a few in this gallery: TOD 3 Pictures  CZW - Tournament Of Death 3: Banned My Ass Breakaway Tavern, Smyrna , Delaware. 24/07/2004  Pre-show: John House displays a bunch of weapons people have brought and asks the awaiting crowd who they thought was going to win the tournament. Like most CZW wrestlers, the fans get caught like a deer in the headlights and can barely string words together, one ironically states that Nick Mondo would win the tournament.  First Round  Match One: Arsenal Vs Evil Ninja #2 - 2/3 Light-tube Log Cabins  Both Arsenal and Evil Ninja #2 had been in CZW previously and had a botchtastic and general indy style non tournament tag-team match alongside the Green Phantom and Evil Ninja #1 at Tournament of Death 1, due to this they got a few heckles/insults from the crowd.  I wouldn’t say they went all out to impress but they at least tried to win over the crowd with some daring moves. Lots of neckbreakers and variations of in the early going. Evil Ninja goes one up when he throws Arsenal over the top rope and through a light-tube log cabin placed on a table. A few smashes with some light-tubes and Evil Ninja #2 tombstones Arsenal onto a chair, Arsenal fires back with an sidewalk slam move off the top rope onto/through a chair. The ending comes when Arsenal superplexes Evil Ninja #2 through two light-tube log cabins to take the match 2-1.  Winner: Arsenal  Match Two: Nick Gage Vs Ruckus - Barbed Wire Boards  Standard fare as Nick Gage batters the absolute shite out of Ruckus with a chair so much that it probably could be classed as a hate crime, he also gets decked with a rubber chicken too. Ruckus manages to get very little offence in and when he does its flippity flop shite that does absolutely nothing, he barely touches the lain down board on top of Nick Gage when he hits a skytwister press (I think it’s called that.) Ruckus goes for his trademark razzle dazzle but eats the barbed wire board. Ruckus eats a chokebreaker and powerbomb on to a barbed wire board for the loss. Gage decides to deck Ruckus with another stiff chair shot for his troubles.  Winner: Nick Gage  Match Three: Mad Man Pondo Vs Wifebeater - Fans Bring The Weapons  Both guys get big reactions but the match itself is a plodding and sloppy you hit me, I hit you affair. Notable moments include Pondo’s routine stop sign shots, Wifebeater smashing vinyl records over Pondo’s head, Pondo half heartedly putting his head through a plate glass window, (Don’t blame him to be honest.) and some form of spiky conkers coming into play with both men getting their slams worth out of them. Finish comes about after a botched chokenstein onto an LCD tv earns Pondo a powerbomb on to the tv and Wifebeater getting the 1-2-3.  Winner: Wifebeater  Match Four: Ian Knoxx Vs Sexxxy Eddy - Carpet Strips And Thumbtacks  Sexxxy Eddy comes out and gives then CZW owner, Zandig’s wife a striptease. Crowd weren’t impressed with his attire or the match. Back in December ’03, Knoxx took a nasty bump at Cage of Death 5 and did his shoulder in, up until this match he took it easy. Knoxx bumped as best as he could for Eddy, taking a whipping into a carpet strip board, a wheelbarrow suplex into the thumbtacks and a tilt-the-whirl stomach first slam into them too. Eddy kinda impresses the crowd with a trash-can over his head moonsault but botches it a little. Eddy gets the win after he slams Knoxx off the top turnbuckle to the outside onto a carpet strip board laid across two chairs and pins him.  Match Five: Green Phantom Vs Necro Butcher - Fans Bring The Weapons  Absolutely mental. Not a mile a minute match but starts off brutal and frantic with the pair brawling all over. Somewhere in-between the melee, Green Phantom gets his nose broken as blood pours through his mask.  Notable moments:  In a clash of milk/water jugs, one side of the front row gets covered in what turns out to be soured milk. A poster on the old CZW-Fans board confessed to leaving it out in the sun for days in preparation for the event.  A de-wheeled skateboard with light-tubes attached gets plated into Necro’s side after the Green Phantom jumps off the top turnbuckle to the outside.  Stiff punches galore, add chair shots to this category as well.  A light-tube made to look like a cactus kicked between Green Phantom’s legs.  This is my favourite match of first round and is only let down by the ending, after the brutal punishment both men take, Necro finishes it with the Adriatic spike. Basically a thumb to the throat and Green Phantom taps.  Winner: Necro Butcher  Match Six: Chris Ca$h Vs JC Bailey - Ladders And Light-tubes  Both try to wrestle in the early going with basic moves and psychology. Things pick up when JC German suplexes Ca$h off a propped up ladder in the corner. They take turns in smashing light-tubes on one another and Ca$h gets a nasty cut in his left armpit when JC kicks a light-tube in/to that region. JC ups the ouch stakes when he missed a front senton on Ca$h and gets a bit of light-tube stuck in his belly. After more light-tube action JC picks up the win with a Bardsstown Jam back splash from the top rope onto Ca$h and a bunch of light-tubes.  Winner: JC Bailey  Semi-Finals  Match One: Arsenal Vs Sexxxy Eddy - Light-tube Ropes  Whoever thought of taping light-tubes to ropes is stupid but not as stupid as the people who wrestle in them. Both men put on an impressive showing a violence and it stands better than either of their first round matches. Dives and suplexes galore make up a good portion of the match before things got a little crazy. Eddy took some serious light-tube punishment from Arsenal which included a front face sitout slam into light-tubes, various tube shots to the body and a nasty whip into the corner full of tubes, Eddy fired back with his own tube punishment before getting smacked senseless in a corner with trash can shots. The match may have gone a little longer if Eddy hadn’t of cut his arm deeply whilst suplexing Arsenal into a corner full of light-tubes. From that Eddy dumps Arsenal head first into a trash can and hits a running inverted cannonball from the turnbuckle for the win.  Winner and Loser due to injuries sustained: Sexxxy Eddy  After the match Eddy squirts a stream of blood out of his arm and then into his mouth, grossing out the crowd. Due to the injury sustained, Eddy was rushed to hospital and couldn’t compete in the finals.  Match Two: JC Bailey Vs Wifebeater - Fans Bring The Weapons  Interesting start, one of the sickest spots from Tournament of Death 1 happens early on in this match. Wifebeater brings a strimmer to the ring with him and JC turns that against him by grabbing it and using it. From there it follows the formula of Wifebeater’s earlier match, hit, plod and stop start. Nothing much by the wayside aside from JC getting a large bucket of salt and some variant of hot source all over. JC eats the three count when Wifebeater chokensteins him off the top of a flatbed truck into the bed which is filled to the brim with light-tubes. Extremely DANGEROUS! And didn’t look as good as it probably sounded when the idea was pitched.  Winner: Wifebeater  Match Three: Necro Butcher Vs Nick Gage - Four Corners Of Panes (Glass sheeting.)  As you’d expect, stiffness for the sake of stiffness with these two, chair shots, punches and putting each other through panes of tempered glass. I like the tempered glass, it’s relatively safe from a deathmatch standard and looks awesome when used right. Such a case would have been when Gage went to bootscrape the glass into Necro’s face but failed on the first attempt, it still looked great when it went through on the second go round but got less of a pop. Both men have a crack at suicide when Necro frankensteiners Gage off the top rope to the outside through a pane of glass propped up by chairs. A surprisingly nice and decently executed butterfly powerbomb only got Necro the two count. BlkOut/Ruckus interferes late on which ultimately costs Gage the match, Necro capitalises on this and corner powerbombs Gage through a pane of glass for the three count. BlkOut/Ruckus try to attack Gage after the match but are fended off.  Winner: Necro Butcher  Final  Necro Butcher Vs Wifebeater - Weapons Galore  Poor Necro, because there were no non-tournament matches and with Sexxxy Eddy being carted off to hospital, he got little in the way of a rest from the Gage match and took double the brunt he probably would have got if Eddy was in the match. A quick fixing of two cage pieces between the guard rail and ring apron and the match was on.  Necro was visibly knackered and very sore, still he gave as good as he got. A slower pace to what he had worked in the previous two matches but you can’t blame him. Wifebeater was Wifebeater and with that, not much else is to be said on that front.  Necro took the initiative and waylaid into Wifebeater with tube shots, Wifebeater came back with his own and it played out this way for a few minutes. A suplex onto the cage sidings made them drift to the outside area with plodding brawling taking place through the crowd. The end piece for Tournament of Death 3 comes when Wifebeater sidewalk slams Necro off the ring truck (About 12-15ft high at most.) through a pyramid of burning tables. A cooler of water is thrown over the pair (Mainly Wifebeater but to be fair he took most of the impact.) before Wifebeater rolls Necro over and pins him.  Winner And Tournament Of Death Three Champion: Wifebeater  After the match Zandig mumbles on and Necro shows everyone in sight that a clump is now hanging from his left arm. Asked how is going to patch it up, he replies with "glue" and states he doesn’t have insurance. It is later reported that he was seen to at a hospital as someone kindly donated their details for him to use.  Overall I think this is the best TOD out of them all. After TOD 4, it has gone downhill fast and even though the shock factor has gone up, the quality (If there was any to begin with.) has shit the bed.  I award TOD 3, four Zandig Jesus’s out of five. Edited March 6, 2012 by Rule One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Great stuff Rule One. Tournament of Death 3 was the first CZW deathmatch tournament I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 6, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 Since when did Ruckus start doing deathmatches? Business must be slow for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Since when did Ruckus start doing deathmatches? Business must be slow for him. Â That was a pretty old tournament; he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 6, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) At least change your sig and avatar to death match related things, Richie. Zandig with a big grin on his face, or something. This thread is what your known for. Aids and Barrow (but not LOD shoulder pads) have been overtaken by light tubes and lemons in open cuts. Edited March 6, 2012 by The_BarbarIAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted March 6, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 I was imagining the carpet strips being actual strips of carpet! I assumed dudes were getting carpet burns with them, How innocent of me, those things look lethal. Those things are a brilliant idea, because there'll be loads of people in the audience who have experienced them, and know exactly what painfull little skin shredding bastards they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted March 6, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2012 That Green Phantom vs. Necro Butcher match from TOD3 is fucking unbelievable and easily my favorite deathmatch of all time. It doesn't feature any stupid ass contrived spots or take turns hitting eachother shit, it looks like a genuine fight to the death. I'm guessing Necro thought Phantom was just some loser rookie and tried to shoot beat him up but Green Phantom decided to fight back. Highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rule One Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Since when did Ruckus start doing deathmatches? Business must be slow for him. Â Ruckus was a stand in replacement for Zandig who thought he had recovered from back/neck injuries but troubles re-emerged a week or two before the tournament. Toby Klein probably would have been a better fit at the time. He was involved at TOD 4 too taking Zandig's version of the razzle dazzle but I can't think of any other deathmatches he's been in unless you count the Cage of Death match from COD 6. Â Also it fitted in with the feud BlkOut were having with the H8 Club. (Nate Hatred and Nick Gage.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 That Green Phantom vs. Necro Butcher match from TOD3 is fucking unbelievable and easily my favorite deathmatch of all time. It doesn't feature any stupid ass contrived spots or take turns hitting eachother shit, it looks like a genuine fight to the death. I'm guessing Necro thought Phantom was just some loser rookie and tried to shoot beat him up but Green Phantom decided to fight back. Highly recommended. Â Yeah, very good fight. Â Have all of the TOD's and am undecided on my faves but this certainly had some good matches. Â Oh, and I think Ruckus was a stand in for Big Japan's Shadow WX [at least, I think that's what they said on commentary - it's been a while since I've seen it]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rule One Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Yeah, very good fight. Â Have all of the TOD's and am undecided on my faves but this certainly had some good matches. Â Oh, and I think Ruckus was a stand in for Big Japan's Shadow WX [at least, I think that's what they said on commentary - it's been a while since I've seen it]. Â In 2004 there would have been no chance of this happening. BJPW and CZW did not get on from 2001-2009/10, it was only when Zandig sold up that the relationship was repaired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Yeah, very good fight. Â Have all of the TOD's and am undecided on my faves but this certainly had some good matches. Â Oh, and I think Ruckus was a stand in for Big Japan's Shadow WX [at least, I think that's what they said on commentary - it's been a while since I've seen it]. Â In 2004 there would have been no chance of this happening. BJPW and CZW did not get on from 2001-2009/10, it was only when Zandig sold up that the relationship was repaired. Â May be the reason he didn't show up then, but I'm sure they said that on commentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 In 2004 there would have been no chance of this happening. BJPW and CZW did not get on from 2001-2009/10, it was only when Zandig sold up that the relationship was repaired. Â What was the story behind this then? I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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