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He won the WCW championship when?

2000?

2000.

It is 20 fucking 19.

Take the chair!

Take the chair!

I'm sick and tired of people like David Arquette.

He's never been trained.

He's a fucking joke!

I'm sick and tired of people taking the piss!

Out of my business!

The new WCW World Heavyweight Champion, my man, Mr. David Arquette.

Yeah!

And

to trust someone from Hollywood!

David Arquette, winning the WCW championship.

I'm gonna basically make this pretty short.

It was crap.

An untrained 150 pound Hollywood actor wins one of

professional wrestling's most prestigious championships.

Huh.

There's a whole locker room full of guys in WCW.

You could all be incredible world champions.

Out of all that, you picked David Arquette.

I'm not buying it.

He doesn't have the size.

I don't know what the hell they were thinking.

They basically made their title meaningless when they strapped it around his waist.

It meant nothing.

I don't give a shit about David Arquette.

You can't just walk in here and think you're gonna do what we do every day.

David Arquette is the wrestler's son.

It sucks.

It's not like David Arquette's up there with

Hulk Hogan or Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes.

Dude, is this a joke?

He was a freaking...

I'm here to tell you a story about a man created by God.

No!

A man created by Hollywood.

Not MacGyver.

Not Vin Diesel.

Not Stallone.

Not Schwarzenegger.

I'm talking about David Arquette.

The man is invincible.

He was in Scream 1, Scream 2, Scream 3.

If they make a Scream 4, he's coming back as a goddamn cyborg.

He was in Ready to Rumble.

He was a WCW champion for two weeks.

He was an eight-legged freak when he battled Giant Spiders.

Giant Spiders, for God's sakes!

He was also in C-Spot Mud, but only because he needed the money.

And that's why... You cannot kill David Arquette!

You cannot kill David Arquette!

All right.

Well, first of all, I like David Arquette.

Number two, he came into the Dresden area, which was like sacred ground to all of us.

That had been in the business, and he was a gentleman.

Would you give him your blessing?

Do I give David my blessing?

As a person?

Yeah, of course.

As a wrestler?

No.

I'm trying to get carried away.

He's my hero when I look at his wife.

I've never seen Scream, which is insane.

In fact, I covered Scream 4 for The Insider.

And I still didn't see the whole movie because I hate scary movies so much.

I freak out.

David and I met on an 80s boat party.

But before that, I went to NYU.

I was a journalist.

I interned for Hillary Clinton.

I worked in local news on air for more than a decade.

Won an Emmy.

And ended up on Entertainment Tonight.

And yeah, when I had my kids, I left being a news reporter.

And now I'm kind of getting back into it.

And I'm going to Arkansas soon to produce my first feature film.

Okay.

So just call me back and let me know if we need to troubleshoot.

We have the three kids.

We have Coco, my stepdaughter, who's 14.

Charlie is 4.

Gus, who is 15 months.

So it's a circus.

And we have three basset hounds.

It's really insane here.

I always joke, actually, it's not three kids, it's four.

There's Coco, Charlie, Gus, and David.

There's a lot of kids in the house running around.

Lady, no.

As interesting as wrestling is, you know, he thinks...

feels like kind of crossing over into that world caused

a lot of directors to not necessarily take him seriously.

She is really good, isn't she?

...combinating to people who want to do things differently.

We could get off the street.

At the start of David's career, there was so much promise.

I mean, he was playing sophisticated roles, and he was on this really good trajectory.

And then in the late 90s, he was on the cover of the Hollywood edition of Vanity

Fair with that elite group of movie stars, like Leonardo

DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey and Will Smith.

And those guys have all gone on to be the biggest movie stars in the world.

And I think David has a lot of sadness

around the fact that he could have been that.

But instead, he went on to do the Scream movies,

and he kind of became typecast as a goofball.

And that's what everyone remembers him as, the cop from Scream.

Gotta knock off a couple more to get that title.

It was also around this time in his life that things started to change.

He started getting weird.

And I think his involvement in wrestling was kind of that last straw.

People did not get it.

They thought he was crazy.

And it really hurt his career.

In present time, my career has been pretty crappy.

I mean, I've been auditioning for like 10 years without actually getting a role.

So that's like 10 years of rejection.

Like, who does that?

Who would go for 10 years of job interviews and

not get any and still go out and get another?

You know, I have another job interview today.

It's fucking crazy.

We met on Scream 1.

We hated each other Scream 2.

We got married Scream 3.

And we got divorced Scream 4.

That's some of the roughest wrestling I've seen.

I used to go to wrestling matches with him, and he would get so excited.

Yeah, it was a lot to handle to see David at this point where, you know,

I was on Friends, and everything was feeling pretty good with our careers.

And all of a sudden, he wants to start wrestling.

I don't know.

He looked like he should have been in Earth, Wind & Fire.

But instead, he was going to wrestling matches, and he was loud.

And it was kind of insane.

I remember feeling embarrassed because he was just...

There's nothing small about the way he embraced wrestling.

World heavyweight champ, baby.

Yeah, right.

David, David, David.

You're not a wrestler!

You're not a wrestler!

Can you show a penis or no?

What...

What network is this or whatever?

Penis-friendly environment?

These are some of Alexis's paintings.

Toothless.

Look at David.

Good looks.

Good looking.

Too many dead people in this book.

Our mom was a writer and a poet and a teacher and loved mythology.

And our dad loved...

Puppetry.

He loved to play the ukulele, and we all had clown noses.

It was a very colorful childhood.

I mean, there was a lot of playing with David and, you know, wrestling with David.

Okay, and a handball punch!

And you crumbled to the ground.

That was a reenactment.

It was like in my periphery, wrestling.

Like, oh, that's a joke.

But it was like something little kids were watching.

And I was kind of surprised by it, honestly.

It was kind of the first major left turn.

David wants love.

And they never gave him the proper love for him showing up in that world.

I was the heavyweight champion of the world!

Thanks to my buddy, Eric Bishop!

There were certain rules.

One of which was don't let celebrities come in and take advantage of wrestling.

Don't expose the business by making it look like anybody, celebrity or non-celebrity.

Anybody could come in off the street and actually beat a wrestler.

The fact that you won the belt is what broke the unwritten rule.

You never do that.

You didn't know the culture, but that wasn't your fault.

That was my fault for letting it happen.

You can blame me.

You know, the idea was big.

You know, toss it around and get David Arquette involved and get him in the ring.

You know, he would get us headlines.

And I'm not really sure whose idea it was.

I think it was Vince Russo's idea originally.

Did it accomplish what you wanted?

It accomplished exactly what I wanted.

You're on the cover of USA Today.

Thank you.

All the newspapers.

You transcend wrestling.

Which is that very... Well, not transcended it.

Right then and there, I think I killed a business forever.

I loved wrestling as a kid.

Like, it was, you know, something I followed.

I was obsessive about it.

So, when I was part of the whole wrestling thing,

I was kind of like just a kid in a candy store.

I mean, like, seeing behind the curtain.

Then it all became, like, really intense.

And, like, you know what I mean?

To find people spitting at you and throwing shit at you and just,

like, saying the worst things you could ever hear.

The plan would be just to sort of clear my name, in a sense.

And, through the process, honor wrestling.

You know what I mean?

I don't want to be a smear on its history.

So, we're going to Detroit, and I'm gonna talk to Brian Nobbs, one of the two

members of the Nasty Boys, to see if I can make

an appearance at his Legends of Wrestling event.

Like, their theme song says, the Nasty Boys have

a reputation for being the bad boys of wrestling.

So, it's gonna take some convincing for Brian to let me fight.

They're wrestling tomorrow.

They come in somehow.

If I can get approved by the commission, the crowd would be hot about it.

You know what I mean?

It'd be the start of a thing.

I've been going for a while now, so... I know, man.

I got you, I got you.

But I'm just saying... I'm just doing business.

He's a fucking asshole.

What's your problem, bro?

That's my partner.

Get that fucking hands up!

Get that fucking hands up!

Get that fucking hands up!

Get that fucking hands up!

Get that fucking hands up!

Stop it!

Just talk about something!

Can we even talk?

I'm sorry, bro!

There's a lot of history attached to this whole thing.

That's kind of the story.

That's why they got so heated.

History's years and years of families.

Generational history.

Coming up, people destroying their bodies for this love.

That they have for wrestling.

So then the chosen few that become real champions and, like,

not me, but real guys that have given their lives for it.

You know, they're 40 years old and seeing their knees are gone.

You know what I mean?

I understand it.

I get it.

I think a lot of wrestling has to do with pride and heritage and legacy.

That's what people think.

People got really upset about that I was an outsider.

I don't really care about being a champ or anything like that.

I care about respect.

I never got to wrestle.

I mean, I got to take some bumps and, you know, move the story along.

But I never got a chance to do anything that the fans would enjoy.

Just sort of figure out this world.

That's really what I want to know.

What is wrestling about?

You know, why do fans love it so much?

Why did they get so mad at me?

I'd love to be able to wrestle.

Trained.

Properly trained.

I want to train with a real trainer and just prove myself in some way.

And that's sort of the thing.

I want to... I'm an actor.

I want to become a wrestler.

They didn't really let us do anything.

I had to, um...

I just had to buy a ticket and go in by myself.

You're a sensitive person, so why are you putting yourself through this?

Yeah, I mean, it's like I'm not part of the family, which I get it.

But you're kind of not.

I mean, don't you understand?

Sorry.

I'm a carnivore.

I'm a carnivore at heart.

I'm a carny.

You had two stints placed in your car.

The coronary arteries of the heart.

To prevent blood clots from forming inside the

stint, you are taking two blood-thinning medications.

If somebody punches you in the face or head or

belly or anywhere, you could bruise and or bleed.

Internally?

Right.

Now, what about, like, if, like, a 300-pound guy jumped on me?

Is there, like, a chance of, like...

Well, that can do a lot of damage.

I don't know if he can wear a helmet during...

That would be a funny gimmick.

Are you a fan of wrestling?

Not really.

His anxiety is crippling, and what his psychiatrist found is a lot of people,

when you're anxious, you're able to, like, actually calm yourself down,

but David's always in a state of such anxiety

that he never can really calm himself down.

Don't hit me, Dad!

No, no, no!

I mean, there is an element that nobody really wants to grow up, you know?

You want to, like...

I love the way kids see the world.

I hate growing up.

What's your name?

David.

David.

I'm David.

How is the drinking going?

Are you able to control it, or are you just completely out of control?

No, I control it.

I mean, I drink... You know, I have my wild nights once in a while, but... Right.

And, uh... Are you an alcoholic?

Yeah, I am.

I guess I... You're a functioning alcoholic.

I guess so.

Yeah.

You know, I drink a lot.

If you have children, if you have family, loved ones, and so on, is there a degree

of selfishness to coming back, if you're an addict, into that world again?

I try, uh...

I try to keep, you know, the addict inside me in check, and also the self-critical

voice in check, and... I started drinking more just to sort of, like...

I wasn't... I was unhappy.

Uh-huh.

You know, I wasn't being true to myself.

Yeah.

Just to recap, David, real quickly, how this sort of works.

So, you know, ketamine sort of gives us a rapid antidepressant effect, and it'll

give us sort of a window of opportunity where your mood is a little bit more

manageable, and you feel, you know, a little bit lighter, a little bit better,

maybe a little bit less prone to, like, kind of fall down that hole that,

you know, you're kind of starting in.

Keep up the... keep up with the positive thinking,

because we're going to give the infusion of ketamine now.

Yeah, yeah.

So...

Yes!

Yes!

Thank you!

Thank you, guys.

This thing is so dope!

I'm awesome!

I love you so much.

This is the fucking game!

And it's so fucking dope!

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, guys!

Guys, guys, guys, guys!

Ketamine!

Uh-uh-uh!

Oh!

We had so... love is love.

Life is life.

I'm happy you're happy.

No!

But I wanted to-Stop it, mother fucker!

No!

Hey!

Stop!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!!!

David, shh.

Okay.

Just sit down in your room.

Okay, go go go, guys.

Okay, lie down.

David!

David, we need to do that.

We need boomba.

Come on, buddy.

Rest, David.

Okay.

Just relax.

Good job.

Just relax.

Sit back and relax.

Put the monitors on.

Yeah, just relax.

Ketamine is what we call a dissociative anesthetic.

Psychiatrists and medicine is using it now for

its rapid and acute antidepressant effects.

There's a lot going on with David.

There's a lot going on both sort of

psychologically slash kind of personality-wise.

Also kind of childhood-wise.

Also brain-wise.

This is David's brain sort of at rest when he was just sitting on the scanner and not

engaged in any particular task.

What's notable about this scan is that the anterior component

of his frontal cortex is smaller than would be expected.

And sometimes that can happen with psychiatric conditions.

Also it can sort of be the result if there's been any damage to the brain in

terms of like a car accident, traumatic brain injury.

Which he had, yeah.

Frankly, his results were like very complex.

Yeah, it was like layers and layers.

Yeah, yes.

I guess the take-home message for David is that

his brain isn't connected in a typical way.

Our grandfather, Cliff Arquette, was this comedian, Charlie Weaver,

who was on The Jack Parr Show and Hollywood Squares.

And then our father, Louis Arquette, was a character actor.

He had parts on The Waltons and he would do commercials.

My family moved to Virginia to move to a commune.

They started it with a bunch of their friends and they

wanted to kind of build this little utopian society.

And David was born there on the commune.

No electricity, no bathroom, no running... I don't think there was running water even.

I mean, my dad had a lot of issues.

My mom had a lot of issues.

She was abusive to us when we were little.

I mean, she choked me to the point once where I started blacking out.

I think David was impacted by feeling like he needed to be the perfect son and you

cannot fix it being the best kid in the world.

You just can't.

My dad was just like my favorite funny person.

He died when I was 29.

I loved watching wrestling with my dad and he actually did the voice to Jimmy

Superfly Snuka and he was one of my favorite wrestlers.

You take one more step toward her and you'll see why they call me Superfly!

Yeah!

So I have this promoter who called about me doing a signing in Richmond, Virginia.

So I'm going to call him up.

Hey man, how are you?

I'm good.

I'm so excited.

Thanks for thinking of me for this thing.

Absolutely, man.

We've got the signing going on for you.

Then we've got RSW.

We've got you there.

It's one of the hottest promotions on the East Coast.

Oh, thanks man.

Well, I'm excited.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to fight yet, but I can

maybe get in the ring and crash talk someone.

Yeah, man.

We can't wait to see you.

Okay, you too.

Alright, brother.

Bye.

Okay.

I guess that's good.

I'm not ready to wrestle right now.

I'm in no shape.

One thing I don't want to do is go back into the ring unprepared.

Not with the right music and gimmick and costume and persona.

Who is it?

Who am I?

So we'll see how this goes.

It sounds a little shady.

Can you help me with... I have to find some costumes.

So this is like a fire retardant suit, but this

is not exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.

And these are my blockbuster awards.

The Drama Teachers Association of Southern California

High School Film Festival Individual Humorous Award.

Second place.

Look, Kanye.

Here.

Here's it.

Here.

Here's it.

I think this is the one with the...

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

So this is crazy wizard's cape.

Wizard's cape.

And I think if I take the... if I take this collar

off, I can do like a Ric Flair kind of... Oh yeah.

Yeah, that's a good one.

I think if I take this collar off, I can do like a Ric Flair kind of... Oh yeah.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Hello.

We've got our client.

Hi.

Hi there.

David.

Hi David, I'm Craig.

Hey Craig.

What's up, how are you?

What are we going to do for you?

I'm going to a wrestling... like a signing convention and I need to sign pictures.

Amazing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Alright.

Can you help me?

Yep.

Hey, you are godlike.

You are the man.

I know nothing stays the same.

Oh yeah, David.

Move this way one step.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Right there.

Awesome.

Now we'll get my light in position.

And on three.

Hold on.

One, two, and three.

Oh.

Oh my goodness.

We got some flame action.

This elbow here.

Okay.

And this goes underneath.

Oh.

Oh, chin down, chin down.

Oh, perfect.

Perfect.

You are the best photographer I ever worked with.

Thank you so much.

Dad, what?

This seems like the dumbest idea I've ever heard.

One, you dress up like a wizard.

I don't know.

It is too wizardy.

I would take this off.

Oh my god.

I'm just kind of sick of being a joke, to be honest with you.

If you're part of the joke, it's not as painful as if you are the joke.

Hollywood doesn't take me seriously.

The sort of media thinks I'm a bit of a joke.

I mean, a lot of these people haven't seen what I can do in a ring.

Okay.

Come on, Scooter.

Let's go.

He killed the business.

And a belt that a guy like Ric Flair or Harley

Race, a guy like Sting, Ricky Steamboat, held.

It actually honestly pisses me off.

Because the guys that rode the roads and do what we do right now, busting their ass

for their families, you know how many times I've missed Christmas with my family?

How many times I've missed anniversaries?

And a guy from Hollywood gets to hold the greatest title in the world?

How much are they?

Ten.

Thank you.

Yeah, that's so cool.

Thank you, man.

You got it?

So tonight we're going to a backyard wrestling thing.

But it's a real match.

You know what I mean?

So I have all these magic tricks.

Like I have this big stick I can make appear out of nowhere.

But it's pretty big.

And then I can hit him with it.

Because it's the first person that's invited me, really.

Dave's got a passion for this business.

And I'd like to see him succeed in making a return to

this sport and having fun doing what he loves to do.

And if I can do anything to help him, to get him where he needs to be,

I'm going to do it.

I mean, Macho Man mainly went with the elbow off the top.

Yeah, right.

Off the top rope, brother.

And man, I miss him.

I miss the Macho Man.

I do, too.

He was so great, man.

Ooh, yeah.

You know, these guys, granted, you know, they don't know what they're doing.

You're going to be back in business again.

Thank you.

Brother, you're going to be in a ring redeeming yourself.

David Arquette's going to learn a little thing about respecting the business.

When he steps in this yard with us, who are serious about what we do,

he's going to love it.

Paying dues in order to get where we are.

So this is it, huh?

Look.

Okay.

It's a backyard wrestling company, but the main thing is here.

We're here to have fun.

All right?

Cool with that?

Yeah.

I love to have fun.

I mean, I'm in the fun business.

Awesome.

So what I just need for you to do is get changed whenever you're ready.

Come on out.

I didn't think it was going to be, like, thousands of people anyway,

but I don't think there's anybody here.

They're just a bunch of kids having fun, and I like to have fun.

So we'll be silly.

We'll have fun.

I'm trying this new gimmick out.

So it's time to unleash the Macho Man.

Introducing first, making his way to the ring, from Prince George, Virginia,

Eli Jordan!

Let me hear it one more time!

Fuck you!

So the ring collapsed at the bottom, so what we're going to do is we're going

to jack it up, get some 2x4s and some tires, and

we're going to get this thing back on the road again.

You crazy bastards have been jumping and flipping all

over on this damn thing, and there was never a bolt there?

I was in jail when this was built.

He is the NBYWA International Heavyweight Champion!

This is the Extreme Massacre, Corey Jacobs!

CW Champion!

He is David R.

Shut up!

No!

I am!

The Magic Man!

Are you serious right now?

I am.

The Magic Man!

Hollywood Magic!

I'm a star, baby!

You're not a real champion!

This is sad.

Fucking pussy, get in here!

Respect me!

Get in my ring!

And respect me!

Hey, don't kill yourself!

Did you do that?

The Magic Man is at you before you disappear!

Corey!

Oh!

Oh!

The Magic!

You got me big time!

Oh!

Watch out!

My magic is at me!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Yeah!

Dude, he's low!

Let's go, Hollywood!

Look at this!

This is what you want, right?

To come back into wrestling, right?

Yeah, he's ready!

He's not ready!

He's gonna crash out of here!

Yeah!

Let's go!

Come on!

Let's go!

He's done!

Get in here!

Bro, I think he's done.

Bro, I think he's done.

Somebody tell me fast!

Oh, no!

Holy shit!

Oh, crap!

Holy shit!

Oh, my God!

Come on!

Oh, my God!

Woo!

Come on!

Help me!

Come on, Robbie!

Oh, no!

Oh, damn!

Stop that!

Oh, damn!

No, he's not!

Bro!

Oh, my God!

Holy!

No!

No, no, no, no, no, no!

I feel like

we gave him a microcosm of wrestling.

Like, if he wants to really get in, he dealt with the shitty promoter who

gassed his head up, gave him all the promises in the world, and he came in here

and got his ass up and didn't even get paid.

If that's not wrestling, I don't care.

I hope he can learn about what wrestling really is and get

that heart for it and come out here every day like we do.

I really hope he does.

Are you serious about getting back in this sport?

Yeah.

I mean, serious.

Do you want to do...

what I do?

Do you want to do what Ric Flair does?

Do you want to do what Jimmy Valiant does?

Do you want to do what's in your heart to do?

I do.

Okay.

Then let's get you some training.

Okay.

Don't make me get in there and show you what to do, because

you ain't gonna like it if I got to get in there and do it.

Drop down, leapfrog!

I know I need training.

And last night was like a big example of that.

I mean, I went in the hard way, but you have to train.

You have to, you know, wrestle with professionals.

I mean, you want to do it right.

All right, boys.

Y'all ready?

Let's do it.

And you'll get the feel for it.

We'll be doing this, doing this.

All of a sudden, you know what he said?

Just nice knee.

Number one.

Lock it up.

Lock it up.

Make it look good.

Arquette comes down here and he thinks everything's gonna be all peachy and cream.

Arquette, when he got here, he's all laughing and joking.

Well, you don't see him laughing and joking now.

He's sweating out there.

He's waiting for a water break.

He may not get a water break today.

All right?

This ain't the movies.

We don't have stunt doubles.

You do it yourself here.

So when he's out there, he's learning, okay?

He's learning.

I don't know what he wants to get out of this, you know, but he's learning.

And he's learning the right way to do it.

So now he's got a good idea of what it's

really like to be in there with the big boys.

It felt

really good to train.

Though I learned some of this stuff you know, 18 years ago.

I didn't have a training session quite like that

where it's really teaching you the fundamentals.

What I love about wrestling is the majesty.

Like, it's larger than life.

It's this, you know, mythological world

where there's the good guys and the bad guys.

They're like gods.

It's funny.

I've been watching it a lot.

I've watched a lot of, like, old matches.

And it's all, like, coming back to me, like, why I fell in love with it.

You know, who...

It occurred to me, like, when I was watching

Macho Man that I was in love with Miss Elizabeth.

Like, she... she literally, she looks like my wife, dude.

She looks like Christina.

God bless you, girl.

What are your feelings about possibly me doing this?

Doing it again.

I don't like this.

You don't like this idea?

Why?

What are your thoughts, Charlie?

Should I wrestle again?

Yeah.

That's my boy.

How does Christina feel about this?

She's on the fence, for sure.

She's afraid of going home.

I've loved wrestling my whole life.

I was looking online, and I'm pretty sure I

found myself ringside at Andre the Giant match.

Yeah, yeah.

On top of the fact that it's, like, really bad timing, you haven't asked me.

You have to, like, ask me, right?

I know.

I'm sort of asking you right now.

It's not fair.

Thank you.

We can talk about it.

It sounds like a dream.

It sounds like a dream.

Like, you are dreaming.

It's not a reality.

I don't know why I have to do it.

I got to do it.

It's just something I got to do.

You got to... You don't know how these guys treat me.

How you doing, buddy?

Ah, not bad.

I just started wrestling again, and people are still giving me crap.

It's all right, buddy.

Don't take it personally.

Easy for you to say.

Why do you think they hate me so much?

Because... you never deserve to be the champion.

Yeah, why don't you mind your own business, pal?

Yeah?

Well, then, let's settle this.

In the ring.

Dun dun, Tony.

Get back.

There's no Ken-There's no Ken-Buster.

Fight.

Whoa, hey.

One, two, three!

It's going up top!

One, two, three!

Diamond Dallas Page tried to tell him it was a bad idea.

But beyond that, like, what could we do about it?

The last thing on the planet that David Arquette wanted to do ...was become a

heavyweight world champion because he actually respected this sport and when

they told me the finish that day, I laughed.

I go and tell David, he's like, no, no, dude, we can't do that.

It's the biggest disgrace in professional wrestling history, but I couldn't do it

because I have a booker that tells me what needs to be done.

So let me ask you, if you were in his spot and they said, we're going to put the

world title on you, we all know you wouldn't do it, right?

Hello.

Hello.

Jerry.

My VFF.

My VFF.

David has lost his mind yet again.

He's going down to Mexico to train with the wrestler Diamond Dallas Page.

I would feel better knowing that you were there.

David and Jerry met five years ago at the Super Bowl.

Jerry was wearing a first responders Sandy Hook t-shirt

and David went up to him and said, do you have a ticket?

And Jerry said, no.

And he said, do you want to go with me?

And that's how they met and they became best friends.

Can you leave tomorrow for Mexico?

99% chance, yes.

I just got to get the permission from my boss at the cop shop.

Okay.

I don't see it being a problem.

Adios, amigo.

Have you walked around?

No, I just got here, man.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Whoa.

There's something in there.

Solid rig.

You know how to lock up?

You know how to lock up?

Like that.

Don't do that.

He's an actual cop!

Get over here.

I need you to train me how to wrestle.

Why?

Why do you want to get back in the ring?

Because it hurts.

Because, you know, it's been 18 years of people thinking I disrespected the belt

and disrespected wrestling and I never meant to.

I mean, I want to, I'm 46 years old.

I love wrestling.

I just really want to try it one more time.

I just need some guidance from you.

If you're willing to walk the talk, I'll guide you, dude.

You know?

Thanks, man.

And get ready for all the pitfalls because people are going to shit all over it.

I know.

When you get out there and you're in the middle of all this, you can do it.

Little by little, that's what you're going to learn.

And when you don't know, when you're working out, ask.

Ask questions.

You got this, bro.

Thanks, bro.

Are you sure you want to do this?

Are you ready to train?

Yeah, man.

Okay, let's go.

Let's go.

Lucha!

Right there.

We got a few.

Thanks.

All right.

Throw it right up in here.

All right.

Legs.

Is that right?

This leg up?

Yeah.

This leg here?

Yes.

Okay.

Fuck!

One more time.

One more time.

Sorry.

I got you.

I'll just jump up there.

Just do it.

I'll take care of you.

Okay.

If he can't anymore, we're going to have to get him out of the gym.

Even when you're so close to the ground, you're

going to have to get him out of the clothesline.

I'm ducking it.

All right.

Come on.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Come on!

Yeah!

Damn.

Gracias, Iguero.

Oh, this is street wrestling.

Come on.

I'm not getting you something out here, am I?

Are you ready?

Do I get wearable?

You want me to wear a mask?

Yeah, a mask.

Shit.

You got it or something?

Thank you.

No, no.

Sorry, I didn't get anything.

Sorry, I didn't get any money.

Sorry I didn't get any money.

No, no.

I said no.

Relax.

You're ready?

I'm ready.

I'm ready.

Okay.

Good man.

They say, you're ready.

Oh, f**k!

I want to see it!

I want to see it!

I want to see it!

I want to see it!

Yes!

Well done!

I have nothing more to say.

Let's get started!

You guys can't shoot me without my mask on now, so...

Oh, look at you!

Handsome girls!

He is a manager.

Mr. Maldito gave me his mask, bro.

What?

He signed me a gaming one.

No.

It's so fucking dope.

That's unbelievable, bro.

That's an honor.

Thank you.

Right?

Yeah!

Scorpions.

Fuck.

Fucking wrestling.

Thank you so much.

Muchas gracias.

I

have a really big announcement to make, and I'd

like to make it here on the Wendy Williams Show.

I'd like to announce...

my return to professional wrestling!

What is he doing?

It's really major anxiety.

And so he's like, it's like in his sternum area, and it's really sore.

He says it feels like...

you know, the same thing that we called about

in the past with the ribs and everything.

I have to go to my doctor just to make sure I don't have any internal bleeding.

But I have to wrestle, so...

I'll get it just to know if I'm bleeding.

Did you have a car accident?

A what?

Car accident or... No, I'm a wrestler, and I had a wrestling injury.

Mr. Atkins?

Yes, hi.

How are you?

Good, how are you?

Obviously, we know you had several fractures in

your ribs from the CAT scan report itself... Right.

...that were actually very small but significant.

If the ribs actually break, they can actually puncture your lung, which is what

gets more concerning... I hate when that happens.

...if you actually puncture your lung or actually bleed into your lungs.

So... But I'm cleared to fight.

Oh, yeah!

Oh, yeah!

It gives.

You know, it's not like hitting concrete, because it does give.

We own this?

Yeah, you own this.

So we don't have to play around in it.

Oh, this is the right one.

It's Monday.

Monday, Monday, probability wheels break.

Oh, that's something!

If you do not as much as me, we want to know what are you doing.

you know, when they've known people for nobody, they did it for Mr.

Monday.

Buddy?

Well, you guys don't need to make comedy earning, we're

all good with that, so you can go and play with me.

Send good vibes and know that he's going to be okay.

If you're just joining us, I'm calling out David Arquette.

I don't know what your deal is.

You think you're better than me?

You think you're a better wrestler?

You play Dr. Tucker in Muppets from Space?

I think you overacted and you brought down the film.

Why are you calling me out, bro?

I didn't do anything.

I elevated the Muppet movie.

We got David Arquette.

He was at the 350 Days premiere.

And all of a sudden, he's just like posing pictures.

And RJ City comes up, starts like pushing him.

And then they get into like a little scuffle on the red carpet.

Tallulah, is this stuff for wrestlers in the covers?

Yeah, the second show.

Is there any body parts?

Any kind of like sheen you could put on?

Oh, don't worry about that.

Okay.

I think my favorite scene is probably everyone's favorite scene.

But when you're with Rose McGowan.

Just that whole scene how you say you took Spanish a bunch of times.

Or like when she takes her shirt off.

I feel like I'm melting.

I am melting.

Oh my...

How are you guys?

Who is that person?

No, it's so scary.

Come on, baby.

It's a ridiculous world I'm in right now.

What are you going to do when you go to your movie and you show up like that?

Oh, shit.

The wrestling world remembers him for being the WCW

World Heavyweight Championship that he won 18 years ago.

And making his in-ring return here at Championship Wrestling Hall.

It's a sport.

No matter what anyone says.

But it's just a theatrical sport.

It's like a play on steroids.

When wrestlers win titles, it's like if you were in a play and you were the king.

And you were so proud and you thought it was so

real that you took the crown home and wore it.

What are you doing?

This is a show.

Let's all calm down, your majesty.

Let's relax.

So, yeah, I think so you drop your robe.

Streamers on the steps.

Drop them out to the sides of the... Yeah.

Half will go to the people, half will go towards the entrance.

That'll look cool.

Is it good at the people?

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay, good.

And then from there, you take them off and you're getting on the pedestal, right?

And I put my hand down here and with my

hand, when I strike the Michelangelo's pose.

I come down.

One, two, three.

Check him off.

He goes rolling right out.

I don't know what just happened.

I'm lost.

You whipped me with the belt.

What is he doing?

This is fucking horrible.

He goes to get off those steps.

I whip him again.

Bang!

He goes...

I said, ring the bell, ring the bell.

And I go, I charge, I sweep your feet and I start grabbing the handle.

And you push me off.

We do a slip slam.

Yeah.

I get up.

I celebrate.

Turn around and you poke me in the eye.

Your ass.

Ah!

I can't see.

You scrape my back.

I turn around and you start beating the shit out.

And I stumble toward the middle of the ring and you double axe handle me.

You get me and whip me in the corner and then you tag and slap me.

That kind of wakes me up.

Whoa, wait a second.

What the fuck is going on?

He's fired up, he spins me around, he slaps me back.

That slap is a bit like... Yeah, you mother...

I turn him around, dirty back chop, and then he goes...

Gives me a back elbow, hits me in the gut,

hits me with another chop, and the big forearm.

He's like, oh, I'm doing it!

You cut me off with the knee.

You put me up in the pile driver.

Rip his head off!

I wiggle out, and I... Just kick my head off, right under the chin.

I got my hand, I'm saying, I got my hand up, just aim, and like...

I get an idea.

Ah, the corner.

I go for my crown, and I jump down.

That's really, that's gonna be really, really good.

Boom.

One, two...

Three.

Here is your winner...

RJ City!

RJ City upset at the big return.

Hey, we're gonna get you some ice for that goose egg, dude.

Oh, yeah, that was dope.

Thanks, bro.

Thank you for all your help.

Wrestling's not fake, guys.

Wrestling's not fake.

That was fucking... look at it, come on.

That was amazing.

Oh, my God.

I know.

Oh, his back!

His back is just like... Oh, I know, that's bad.

Oh, my God, should we get you the... Did you like the show, though?

Did you like the ad?

The show was amazing.

No, that was good.

Can I get five pictures with you?

That's all I knew.

That's okay.

You had a house full of people chanting your name.

I know.

It begs the question, are we gonna see you

back in Championship Wrestling from Hollywood?

I'll be back, you know.

I just don't know if I'll be in the ring.

Thank you both.

I know.

You gotta squeeze it out of there to get a show.

As the match progressed, he got more comfortable and more confident in what he

was doing, but, you know, the more repetitions he gets, the easier that's

gonna be where he can just be confident the whole time and

come out with that stage presence and just own the moment.

Last night, Mom, was the most insane thing in the whole world.

But, like, it's very entertaining.

I'm, like, a lot less embarrassed than I was before.

It was kind of fun.

Yeah.

Oh, he's a wizard.

No, he's not a wizard.

I promise you.

Oh, I don't like any of this.

Look at Dad.

Look at him killing it.

Oh, God.

Yeah!

I can do this for every one of your bones in your body.

No, I like it.

I like it.

What happens if you break your neck or something?

I don't know.

Oh.

Yeah!

One of my favorite moments was Coco flipping him off.

She was so upset.

It's very real.

It's very painful.

It's realer than I ever knew.

It's so hard.

I can't believe these guys do this all the time and, like, travel all the time.

You know, when I went out there, I'm not David

the Hollywood fuck-up that some people think I am.

David, your brother, Arquette, is now wrestling.

He had a heart attack, and now he's wrestling.

When did he have a heart attack?

I didn't know that.

Yeah, he did.

How long ago?

A year ago, a year and a half ago.

I did not know that.

Yeah.

Wow.

Does it make you nervous to watch him?

Yeah, it really scares me.

So, I actually don't watch the matches because it would terrify me too much.

Really, I'm just, like, blown away by everything.

He's lost 50 pounds.

He's quit smoking, drinking.

He looks like a superhero.

There's, like, an element of it that I'm like, this is great.

He's getting healthy and taking good care of himself.

But then you put in the layer of, like, you're getting beat up and thrown around.

And you're getting beat up and thrown around in a

wrestling ring by a bunch of wrestlers, which is not safe.

I didn't expect him to work this hard, to be honest.

I thought this was just gonna be like, oh, yeah, I'll

go to the gym and then bounce off around in the ring.

And he's, like, really a wrestler.

David has a lot of buzz around him right now.

So, it's kind of cool.

Like, the wrestling world's opening up their arms

to David and wanting him to come to a lot of events.

Indie fans are the die-hard fans.

They're the lifeblood of the wrestling business.

And so, to redeem, to get the respect of the indie

fans, I mean, that's a true redemption right there.

My whole life kind of revolves around wrestling sometimes.

I'm here in Chicago, coming to watch the greatest wrestler, David Arquette,

team up with RJ City.

I can't believe I'm here.

I'm in a different place than

I was in the old days.

Oh, what the... Look at

that nice hat I gave you.

That hat is in the dumpster with all your DVDs!

He's 46 years old.

He is so impressive.

That was impressive.

What's going to happen at these kind of shows with the crowd?

They can be very unpredictable.

I mean, they could have booed David out of the building.

This is for real.

And he's really doing it, and I think that's the buzz I'm hearing.

Squeeze it in!

Does it look alright?

Because I'm a wrestler, but I'm also crafty.

I don't know if these glasses are a good idea.

What's going to happen to Arquette out there?

Death, man.

And destruction.

After

a wrestling death match.

You're about to see what David Arquette does.

This is crazy.

The video is starting.

I think David Arquette is starting to freak out.

I think David Arquette needs to go back to the film industry.

I'm sitting here watching these two dumb, stupid motherfuckers.

They're using fucking gimmicks that won't work with them.

You want to put your body on the line.

To that extent, it's a steep price to pay.

One of the scariest things I've ever seen in all my years as a wrestling fan.

We almost saw a man die in the middle of...

David Arquette is wrestling?

Did you know this?

That guy stabbed him in the fucking head.

He just got sober a few years ago.

And he's doing this to keep life exciting for him.

You know what I mean?

Is that why he's doing it?

Or it just doesn't have any movie roles coming in?

All these massive shit.

I'm not taking that.

I love it.

The idea of sort of getting back into wrestling to a physician or mental health

clinician that, you know, that's a red flag, right?

Because pain is a trigger for for a relapse.

You know, he hasn't been training.

There was such a high hopes that something like

wrestling would be used in a way to really get healthy.

It's like, what the fuck is going on?

Like, what is the point of all of this?

It's so strange that right after that death

match David's life just kind of became unglued.

One of his dear friends, Luke Perry, passed away suddenly.

And the irony is that at that death match you know, Luke was

the one taking him to the hospital and in the car with him.

He is a fucking mess.

Two years ago it's a heart attack.

Two years later it's a death match.

So what does that mean for next year?

Is he going to be here next year?

I'm just like worried he's going to die.

That's really the big issue here is that he's

going to die and our marriage does not survive.

I'm a mess, bro.

I'm a fucking mess.

I've been a mess my whole life.

And I'll probably be a mess the rest of my life.

I'm so sober.

I'm just...

I'm just a piece of work.

Christina is away producing her first film and I'm here just watching Miss Elizabeth.

It's kind of tough.

So the crazy thing is I have this one match with Mr. Anderson.

And it's at the Legends of Wrestling the same

event that I was kicked out of last year.

So I'm excited to be invited.

Mr. Anderson just thinks I'm a bit of a joke and isn't taking me seriously.

So it's one last time I have to really prove myself and show someone that that I

got what it takes.

I'm not scared of him.

I'm not scared of anyone.

I do understand why people got upset.

But I've always wanted to jump into the ring.

I'm part of a world that I've always loved and respected.

These people are heroes of mine.

The match where I wrestled Jeff Jarrett and DDP

that was one of the greatest days of my life.

I like to think that good people will always come out on top in the end.

Wrestling greats will be in town for the Legends of Wrestling event.

You know who else will be there?

Well, wrestler and actor David Arquette.

How are you?

It's good seeing you again.

Your most fit you've ever been.

Lost the weight?

Let me tell you what.

After tomorrow he's going to fucking reevaluate everything.

I'm coming for you David.

I'm coming.

Alright fans, here we are.

One of the biggest events of the year.

Legends of Wrestling at the Fraser Hockeyland Arena.

10,000 fans in attendance to see this main

event as Ken Anderson takes on David Arquette.

It's great to be back here.

I remember last year I met David right out here.

Right out in the parking lot.

But he just he just seemed out of it.

I don't know if he was drunk but he was just... I don't know.

And I know he's gotten in good shape not like this.

But David Arquette is the real thing.

And he's my buddy.

This forever to me will be a special night.

I grew up loving wrestling.

He was super into it.

He was always very supportive.

He'd come to all the shows.

It was awesome for me to be able to share this with David.

I almost cried there at the end.

I think I did a little bit.

But I wasn't really expecting that.

But you know, he's family.

You're an incredible fighter.

And you're going to great places.

I love your father dearly.

And I love you.

Thank you.

Happy birthday, Vinny.

But I got something for you, David.

But I got something for you, David.

Anyone can be a champion!

Anyone can be a champion!

Happy birthday.

I wanted to do something for you for your birthday.

Yeah, brother.

How could you hear Mr. David Arquette, you know, brag about being in the WC?

In all seriousness, David, happy birthday.

You walk out and fans like touch you.

You know, touch your hand.

That's like, that's the coolest.

It's that connection.

Or like when you get hit or something, you

turn to the fan like, this guy's gonna kill me.

You make like a direct connection.

with the fan in the moment.

Fuck you, David Arquette!

Fuck you, Vinny!

It's not like it's real.