CZW Cage of Death
The Cage of Death is Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)'s biggest show since 1999. It always features the Cage of Death match, a steel cage with various weapons and objects. Electrified cage walls, cacti, tables, light tubes, glass, thumbtacks, baseball bats, and barbed wire have been used in it. The Cage of Death also has different formats and stipulations: singles, tag team, or gauntlet. Each Cage of Death features two or more wrestlers in the cage. For Cage of Death 5, 6, and 7, WarGames stipulations were used.
Events
| # |
Event |
Date |
City |
Venue |
Main Event |
Ref |
| 01 !1 |
1 !Cage of Death I |
01999-10-16 October 16, 1999 |
Mantua, NJ |
Unknown |
Lobo versus Justice Pain in a Cage of Death match |
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| 02 !2 |
2 !Cage of Death II |
02000-06-25 June 25, 2000 |
New Jersey !Sewell, NJ |
Unknown |
Mad Man Pondo versus Wifebeater versus Nick Gage |
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| 03 !3 |
3 !Cage of Death III |
02001-12-15 December 15, 2001 |
Philadelphia, PA |
ECW Arena |
Wifebeater versus Justice Pain in a Cage of Death |
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| 04 !4 |
4 !Cage of Death IV |
02002-12-12 December 12, 2002 |
Philadelphia, PA |
ECW Arena |
Justice Pain versus The Messiah |
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| 05 !5 |
5 !Cage of Death V: Suspended |
02003-12-13 December 13, 2003 |
Philadelphia, PA |
ECW Arena |
John Zandig, Nick Gage, Ian Knoxx, Wifebeater, New Jack & Lobo versus Adam Flash, Nate Hatred, The Backseat Boyz, The Messiah & B-Boy |
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| 06 !6 |
6 !Cage of Death VI |
02004-12-11 December 11, 2004 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Alhambra Arena |
Nate Hatred & Nick Gage versus Justice Pain & Wifebeater |
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| 07 !7 |
7 !Cage of Death VII: Living in Sin |
02005-12-10 December 10, 2005 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Alhambra Arena |
Joker, Necro Butcher & Toby Klein versus Zandig, Nick Gage & Justice Pain in a Cage of Death |
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| 08 !8 |
8 !Cage of Death VIII: Coming Undone |
02006-12-09 December 9, 2006 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Alhambra Arena |
Zandig versus Nick Gage versus Lobo versus LuFisto in a Cage of Death |
|
| 09 !9 |
9 !Cage of Death IX |
02007-12-15 December 15, 2007 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Alhambra Arena |
Team CZW (Necro Butcher, Danny Havoc, Toby Klein & Drake Younger) versus Team MBA (Brain Damage, Scotty Vortekz, Diehard Dustin Lee & DJ Hyde) in a Cage of Death |
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| 10 !10 |
10 !Cage of Death X |
02008-12-13 December 13, 2008 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Alhambra Arena |
Devon Moore versus Sami Callihan versus Drake Younger versus Danny Havoc versus Zandig versus Brain Damage in a Cage of Death |
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| 11 !11 |
11 !Cage of Death XI |
02009-12-12 December 12, 2009 |
Philadelphia, PA |
The Arena |
Sami Callihan versus Danny Havoc in a Cage of Death |
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| 12 !12 |
12 !Cage of Death XII |
02010-12-11 December 11, 2010 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Asylum Arena |
Suicide Kings (Scotty Vortekz, Danny Havoc, Devon Moore and Dysfunction) versus Cult Fiction (Masada, Brain Damage, tHURTeen, and Drake Younger) in a Cage of Death |
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History
Cage of Death I
The first Cage Of Death was held on October 16, 1999 in Mantua, NJ where Lobo defeated Justice Pain in the first Cage of Death match for the Iron Man title.[1]
Cage of Death II
Cage of Death II took place in Sewell, New Jersey on September 9. That night the Cage was host to two matches. In the first match, then CZW World champion Lobo defeated Zandig to retain his title. Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) wrestler Ryuji Yamakawa had hit the ring during the match and Zandig (who had spent lots of time that year wrestling for BJW) had lost due to Yamakawa's interference.[2]
Cage of Death III
Cage of Death 3 was the third annual Cage of Death event produced by the Combat Zone Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It took place on December 15, 2001. At the CZW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was at the first time in the CZW Arena.[3][4]
Due to their upcoming annual COD show at the end of 2001, the company needed a bigger venue and made their debut in the ECW Arena, formerly Viking Hall and currently The Arena. The venue was the first sellout in the building since the era of ECW, and hundreds were turned away from the biggest show in the promotions history.[5]
Ty Street wrestled Mongoose to a no-contest. Jeff Rocker ran in and then Nate Hatred and Nick Gage came out and destroyed everyone. Nick Gage and Nate Hatred defeated a masked team suspiciously looking like Jay and Mark Briscoe (who wrestled under masks presumably to get around the selectively enforced Pennsylvania age restrictions). NWA-Southwest workers Joey Corman defeated Samir and Brad Michaels in a 3-Way Dance. Corman pinned Michaels after hitting the spin doctor. In what had been billed as a match with Zandig and Glen Osbourne; Osbourne, Lobo, and Danny Rose all got involved in a big brawl with Zandig until Greg from Tough Enough made the save.[3]
In an elimination match, The S.A.T. defeated Chris Divine, Quiet Storm and Brian XL. The order of elimination: Joel Maximo (by Divine), Divine (by Jose Maximo), Jose Maximo (by XL), Brian XL (by Red), Quiet Storm (by Amazing Red, after the Spanish Fly by the Maximos and the Infrared Splash).[3]
Jon Dahmer and Fast Eddie Valentine defeated Chris Ca$h & GQ. Trent Acid defeated Ruckus to win the CZW/BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship. Initially, both men were counted out, but the match was restarted by Zandig with a ladder involved. Acid won the match with the Yakuza Kick, but was put through a table by Big Japan's Winger, who then walked off with both belts. Johnny Kashmere defeated Menace with the Cradlebreaker. Mad Man Pondo defeated Z-Barr - The returning Pondo got the pin after hitting Barr with a splash on top of a chair and his patented Stop Sign. Adam Flash defeated Nick Berk and Nick Mondo in a Falls Count Anywhere match to win the CZW Iron Man Championship.[3]
Inside the Cage of Death, were a jackhammer, a cactus, garbage cans, a truck hood, and tables; and was topped by a scaffold. Justice Pain defeated Wifebeater to retain the CZW World Heavyweight Title as both men crashed through tables in the ring off of the scaffold that topped of the cage of death.[3]
As the match finished, the Arena lights went out. In a kayfabe angle, former ECW owner Todd Gordon, along with Blue Meanie, Pitbull #1, Rockin' Rebel, Rocco Rock were in the ring, trashed CZW, with Gordon calling the fans "ingrates" for chanting CZW. After they abused Justice Pain and Wifebeater, the CZW locker room crashed the cage, and the lights went out again. When they came back on, The Sandman was standing in the middle of the ring.[3]
Sandman then turned on his former ECW compatriots. At the end Sandman stripped off his ECW t-shirt for a CZW shirt and had a beer with Zandig.
Cage of Death IV
Cage of Death IV took place on December 13, 2002 in Philadelphia, PA at the Viking Hall and saw John Zandig defeat Lobo in a Cage of Death match for the ownership of CZW. This was the last Cage Of Death to use electricity as a hazard (Lobo was electrocuted early in the match).[6]
Cage of Death V: Suspended
Cage of Death V: Suspended was the fifth annual Cage of Death event produced by the Combat Zone Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It took place on December 13, 2003.
The main feud going into the Cage of Death match was between Team Zandig John Zandig, Nick Gage, Ian Knoxx, Wifebeater, and Lobo and the HI-V The Messiah, Adam Flash, Nate Hatred, Trent Acid, Johnny Kashmire, and B-Boy. Although Team Zandig's sixth member was New Jack, he turned on team Zandig and joined the HI-V. The Cage match also differed from the previous year, in that there were two rings; one of them was surrounded by the cage, and the other was filled with thumbtacks. Above the two rings was scaffolding walkway on which the wrestlers could walk on. The match started with two members of each team, and every 90 seconds a wrestler, from either team, entered the match according to the number they drew before the match started. Elimination occurred when both a wrestlers' feet hit the floor.
| # |
Result |
Stipulation |
| 0 !Dark |
Jon Dahmer and Cory Kastle defeated Jude and Niles Young, and DJ Hyde and Josh Samuels |
Six man tag team match |
| 1 !Dark |
Shun the Kabuki Kid defeated Rick Feinberg, Christian Wolf, and GQ |
Four-way match |
| 2 !1 |
Rockin' Rebel and Greg Matthews defeated Dirty Rotten Scoundrelz, Nick Berk, and Z-Barr |
Six-man tag team match |
| 3 !2 |
Jimmy Jacobs with (Becky Bayless) defeated Sabian and Derek Frazier |
Triple threat match |
| 4 !3 |
Jimmy Rave defeated Trent Acid (c) |
Iron Man match match for the CZW Iron Man Championship |
| 5 !4 |
Alex Shelley defeated B-Boy and Chris Hero |
Triple threat number one contenders match |
| 6 !5 |
The Joker defeated Chri$ Ca$h |
Ladder match |
| 7 !6 |
Sonjay Dutt defeated Ruckus (c) |
Singles match for the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship |
| 8 !7 |
Team Ultraviolence (John Zandig, Lobo, Ian Knoxx, Wifebeater, Nick Gage, and New Jack) defeated Hi-V (The Messiah, Nate Hatred, The Backseat Boyz, Adam Flash, and B-Boy) |
Cage of Death match |
Cage of Death VI
Cage of Death VI took place on December 11, 2004 in the ECW Arena where there were two Cage Of Death matches. One saw Team Ca$h (Chri$ Ca$h, J.C. Bailey, Nate Webb, and Sexxxy Eddy) defeat Team Blackout (Ruckus, Sabian, Eddie Kingston, and Jack Evans). The other match saw the battle of The H8 Club as Wifebeater and Justice Pain took on Nate Hatred and Nick Gage. For Cage of Death 6 there were eliminations that would happen when a wrestler would hit the arena floor much like Cage of Death 5 the year before, the difference being that the tag team titles were hanging on a scaffold stretched across the length of the top of the cage overlooking the two rings.[8]
In the 4 on 4 elimination match wrestlers were eliminated when they hit the floor. The cage surrounded two rings, and there was also a scaffold on top of the cage where Maven Bentley and Robbie Mireno were holding the CZW Tag Team belts.
The other Cage of Death match was a Fans Bring the Weapons match inside the cage. Wifebeater and Justice Pain won after Nick Gage turned on Nate Hatred by driving him through a pane of glass covered in salt and thumbtacks. Immediately after the match Pain and Gage turned on Wifebeater.
| # |
Result |
Stipulation |
| 0 !Dark |
Dizzie, All Money is Legal (K-Murda and K-Pusha) defeated Ghost Shadow, Heretic and Spyral BKNY[8] |
Six man tag team match |
| Dark !1 |
Erick Stevens and Roderick Strong defeated Alex Shelley and Jonny Storm[8] |
Tag team match |
| 2 !1 |
Blackjack Marsciano, Hallowicked and Larry Sweeney defeated Jigsaw, Mike Quackenbush, and UltraMantis Black[8] |
Six-man tag team match |
| 3 !2 |
Sonjay Dutt (c) defeated M-Dogg 20 for the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship[9] |
"Loser Leaves CZW" match[8] |
| 4 !3 |
B-Boy defeated Dan Maff[8] |
Singles match |
| 5 !4 |
B-Boy defeated Chris Hero (c) for the CZW Iron Man Championship[8] |
Singles match |
| 6 !5 |
Excalibur and Super Dragon defeated Kevin Steen and El Generico[8] |
Tag-team match |
| 7 !6 |
Messiah (c) defeated Kaos and Adam Flash to retain the CZW World Heavyweight Championship[8] |
Three way scaffold and ladder match[8] |
| 8 !7 |
Team Ca$h (Chris Ca$h, J.C. Bailey, Nate Webb, and Sexxxy Eddy) defeated BLKOUT (Ruckus, Sabian, Eddie Kingston, and Jack Evans)[8] |
WarGames Cage of Death match[8] |
| 9 !8 |
H8 Club (Justice Pain and Wifebeater) defeated H8 Club (Nick Gage and Nate Hatred)[8] |
Cage of Death match |
Cage of Death 7: Living in Sin
Cage Of Death VII took place on December 10, 2005 in Philadelphia, PA at the New Alhambra Arena in Philadelphia, PA. Where The H8 Club & John Zandig defeated The Tough Crazy Bastards (Necro Butcher and Toby Klein), and Joker. This Cage of Death was a big octagon constructed around the ring with barbed wire around the top. Lots of other hardcore elements like a spider net of barbed wire, thumbtack turnbuckles, barbed wire bats and also a pair of scaffolds and four tables placed inside the Cage. Cage of Death 7 just had standard pinfall and submissions after all combatants entered the cage.[10]
Cage of Death 8: Coming Undone & Death Before Dishonor IV
The first Cage of Death that did not take place at either a Cage of Death or CZW show took place on July 15, 2006 at rival promotion Ring of Honor's Death before Dishonor IV. The match, used to settle the seven month inter-promotional feud between the two companies, was held in the same cage as Cage of Death 7. CZW's Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Necro Butcher, Nate Webb and Eddie Kingston lost the five-on-five match to ROH's Samoa Joe, BJ Whitmer, Adam Pearce, Ace Steel and Homicide. Homicide was sixth man for Ring of Honor, and entered the match after Bryan Danielson betrayed ROH by attacking Samoa Joe, who was then forced to quit the match.
Cage of Death 8 took place on December 9, 2006 where in a Loser Must Retire Fans Bring the Weapons Cage of Death match, Nick Gage pinned Zandig in a four way that also involved Lobo and LuFisto (in a last minute addition). The cage was an all new design made of wood and barbed wire featuring platforms, barbed wire spider nets, glass, and other assorted weapons. This was the first ever four way Cage of Death match, and the first one with a female participant.[11]
Cage of Death IX
Cage of Death IX was the ninth annual Cage of Death event produced by Combat Zone Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It took place on December 8, 2007 at the CZW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was the seventh consecutive Cage of Death at the CZW Arena.[12]
Cage of Death X
Cage of Death X was the tenth annual Cage of Death event produced by Combat Zone Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It took place on December 13, 2008 at the CZW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was the eighth consecutive Cage of Death at the CZW Arena.[13]
The show opened with a surprise as old CZW favorite Ric Blade came back to the promotion for his first in-ring appearance since 2004, as the referee for the Junior Heavyweight Title Match.[13] The roof for the Cage of Death hung from the ceiling. Also hanging from the ceiling were the ladders, a rope, a rope ladder, and the CZW Junior Heavyweight Title.[13][14]
Ryan McBride defeated Pinkie Sanchez, IWS regular Dan Paysan, Insanity Pro Wrestling's Carter Gray, and All-American Wrestling/IWA Mid-South Wrestling's Egotistico Fantastico in what may well have been the hottest match of the night to become the new CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion. The finish saw Pinkie Sanchez and Ryan McBride fighting on the ladder - both went to grab the belt and fell down, but McBride was holding the belt when they hit the mat.[13][14][15]
Post-match, Zandig brought out Lobo, Nick Gage, and Wifebeater to the ring to join Ric Blade, and credited them for being the reason why CZW still existed. Then New Alhambra Arena manager Roger Artigiani surprised Zandig by unveiling the 2008 New Alhambra Arena Hardcore Hall of Fame induction banner on the wall joining The Sandman,[13] Terry Funk,[13] Ted "Rocco Rock" Petty and Johnny Grunge as inductees.[13] A video promo followed, with Zandig stating that, "if these five men want the $10,000...they'll have to go through me" - making Zandig the sixth man in the Cage of Death.[13]
In a nice touch, the promotion did its third annual Toys for Tots toy collection, with uniformed Marines at the collection box at the Arena's front door. The Arena would continue the collection at the afternoon's CHIKARA and Velocity Pro Wrestling events. Fans are encouraged to bring a new "unwrapped" toy to the Arena for these shows, as Arena management and the promotions running the venue contribute back to the children of the Philadelphia area.[13][14][15]
In a pleasant surprise, Sonjay Dutt plugged CZW after the match and suggested he might return as he could in 2009 (with everyone waiting for the expected heel swerve that for once wasn't forced on by a promoter).[13] 2 Girls, 1 Cup defeated The Olsens, Miracle Ultraviolence Connection, and Team Andrew to retain the CZW Tag Team Titles.[13][14][15] Given Nick Gage's concussion at the time, expectations for this match weren't what they might have been under other circumstances. Gage won the match for H8 Club, as he hammered Ruckus at the end with at least 7 Chokebreakers at the end of the match. Ruckus was ruled unable to continue by the referee. Deranged defeated DJ Hyde in a Fans Bring the Weapons Match. Various toys used included a glass picture frame, a drum, a boat oar with thumb tacks, hand held plastic guitar,[13] and a knife.[15]
The Cage of Death was a double cage structure with a cage inside a cage, a roof made up of a barbed wire spider net and a scaffold topping the traditional Cage of Death. Surrounding the Cage that surrounded the ring was a platform surrounding that with tables, chairs, lemon juice, salt, sheets of auto glass and other goodies enclosed by a second cage. In the middle of That platform was a vertical wall of glass which exploded after Devon Moore took a "Mother F'n Bomb" through it.[13] Other sick spots saw Devon Moore doing a shooting star press onto all but Zandig, Sami Callihan hitting a senton off the scaffold/spidernet through a barbed wire table on Brain Damage, and Drake Younger Russian legsweeping Danny Havoc off the side of the cage through a barbed wire board propped up by chairs.[14] In the end, Zandig got to the top of the structure to win the match. After the match, Zandig stated that he was trying to prove that "his boys" had their Onita style "fighting spirit" back, and handed out the $10,000 to all five other competitors.[14][15][16]
| # |
Result |
Stipulation |
| 1 !0 |
Ryan McBride defeated Pinkie Sanchez, Don Paysan, Quick Carter Gray, and Egotistico Fantastico |
Sky Is Limit Ladder Match with Ric Blade as referee |
| 2 !1 |
Jon Dahmer defeated Shun The Kabuki Kid |
Singles match |
| 3 !2 |
Tyler Veritas, Adam Cole, and LJ Cruz defeated GNC (Joe Gacy, Alex Colon, and E.M.O.) |
Six man tag team match |
| 4 !3 |
B-Boy defeated Sonjay Dutt |
Singles match |
| 5 !4 |
2 Girls, 1 Cup defeated The Olsen Twins (Jimmy and Colin), The Miracle Ultraviolence Connection, and Team AnDrew |
Four-way tag team match |
| 6 !5 |
H8 Club (Nick Gage and Nate Hatred) defeated BLKOUT (Ruckus and Sabian) |
Tag team match |
| 7 !6 |
Deranged (with Halfbreed Billy Gram) defeated DJ Hyde |
Deathmatch |
| 8 !7 |
John Zandig defeated Devon Moore, Drake Younger, Sami Callihan, Brain Damage (with Halfbreed Billy Gram), and Danny Havoc |
Cage of Death |
Cage of Death XI
Cage of Death IX was the eleventh annual Cage of Death event produced by Combat Zone Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It took place on December 8, 2009 at the CZW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was the ninth consecutive Cage of Death at the CZW Arena.[17]
Cage of Death XII
Cage of Death XII was the twelfth annual Cage of Death event produced by Combat Zone Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It took place on December 11, 2010 at the CZW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was the tenth consecutive Cage of Death at the CZW Arena.[18]
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