All language subtitles for Dark Side Of The Ring s03e03 The Ultra Violence of Nick Gage.eng

♪ [chanting]
Nick ....in' Gage! ♪

The most ultra-violent
athlete in GCW history!

Nick Gage is on a rampage!

I love what I do, and I'm
the best mother....er

in the world doing it today.

♪

- Glass...
- Into the glass!

Lightbulbs...

- [shattering]
- Oh!

- Barb wire.
- [screaming]

...Nick Gage,
and there he is!

These are not things
that are meant

for the human body.

♪

[Narrator] Beyond the
fantasy world of

larger than life
heroes and villains,

lies the brutal
and unforgiving underworld

of Deathmatch wrestling.

[cheering]

And its undisputed king,
Nick Gage.

What we're gonna do,
is we're gonna

light these bitches up.

Yeah!

- [shattering]
- Oh, my!

This isn't a children's TV show
on Saturday morning.

Oh!

When that bell rings,
it's real to Nick Gage.

This is gonna be a fight.

For the uninitiated,

stepping into Gage's domain is

an invitation to an
arena of pain,

where blood will be spilled.

Oh, my god! He just snoofed
David Arquette!

He's starting to
bug out a little bit,

and that's how he got
cut in the ....ing throat.

Oh!

I told you not to
....ing cut me.

I'm an actor so,
I was in over my head.

But for Gage, his most
intense battle

was fought outside the ring,

as the harsh consequences
of his lifestyle

bled out into real life.

He's cut, bad,
bad, bad, bad!

Leaving him at rock bottom.

Painkillers, Percocet,
OxyContin,

all those things.

What do you mean
Nicky robbed a bank?

Why would you do
something like that?

You're killing yourself!

Cut that ....in' camera!
Cut the camera.

Gage is in the house, Gage
is gonna do what he wants.

And any time you want
to ....in' fight me, you can.

♪

[Audience]
Oh!

[Announcer] Pile driver
through the window!

[cheering]

Deathmatch wrestling is a
live-action horror movie.

♪

Raised on the blood-soaked
matches of their heroes,

its participants strive to
outdo icons of the past.

[indistinct shouts!]

By escalating
their brutality to

new life-threatening heights.

Quick!
Someone call 9-1-1!

All to satisfy a
blood-thirsty crowd.

The king of ultra-violence,
Nick ....ing Gage!

[cheering]

You gotta love
this shit, man.

'Cause guess what,
that shit hurts.

[Announcer] Oh!

[Nick] And that shit burns.

[Audience] Oh!

And that shit might say,
"Why the .... am I doing

this shit right now, 'cause
it ain't the pay day."

♪

My name is Nick Gage.

I'm the greatest Deathmatch
wrestler in the world.

I'm the leader of a gang called
Murder Death Kill Gang.

I represent Eastern
Block Hate Club so,

that's who I am, man.

I'm probably a little, little,
little crazy in the head.

♪

Ah, my pain
tolerance is high.

- ....!
- To pain!

I also want to show
other wrestlers that

this style of wrestling's
alright, man.

And it can be done,
and there is a fan base,

and it's awesome.

[chanting] Nick ....in' Gage!
Nick ....in' Gage!

Some Deathmatch wrestlers are
some of the best storytellers,

the best in the world at
connecting with an audience,

Nick Gage being one of them.

My name is Jon Moxley.

I am a
professional wrestler.

[Announcer]
Jon... Moxley!

[cheering]

Jon Moxley is no
stranger to ultra-violence.

Oh, good god!

Before reaching world
championship status

in the mainstream, Moxley cut
his teeth on the indie

Deathmatch scene
where he routinely

crossed paths with Nick Gage.

[chanting]
Nick ....in' Gage!

Who he is in the ring,
when he walks out,

and that music hits,
and he comes out like,

"Yeah! Nick ....in' Gage!"

High-fiving, getting all
pumped up. "Yeah!"

Getting all excited,
that's how he is all the time.

My first
one-on-one encounter,

he pulled out a
pizza cutter.

[Commentary] And now
he's got a pizza cutter!

[Jon] I'm thinking, you know,
give me a nice workin'.

I'll do a little
poke and twist,

it's all an illusion.

Not so much.

[Audience member]
Nick ....in' Gage!

Ah! Oh, look at this! Oh!

[Jon] He gives me the
pizza cutter.

The crowd goes,
"Oh, yeah! Kill him!

Cut his ....ing head off!"

So, he gets excited.

Nick Gage will do
whatever it takes to be

CZW world champion once again.

I'm the one to just
tackle you and

start having a real fight here.

I'm trying to keep
this match on track.

We got a good story. You
know, the crowd's into this.

You know, please don't
pizza cut the ....

out of my face so much.

And this crowd
is eating it up!

And now he's excited and
I just feel the

excited energy and I'm like,
oh, god, no, no.

And then he takes
the pizza cutter and

he puts it in my mouth.

[muffled] And slices it
across my mouth. Agh!

[Announcer] Nick Gage is
getting carried away

with his ultra-violent ways.

And I'm like, that mother....er
just cut my tongue out.

Look at Moxley's
face already!

Is my tongue still attached?

Okay... and we
continue the match,

and the intensity's
off the charts.

Oh! What a head butt!
Right to the sternum.

Once you go out there and
you get into it and you feel

that Nick Gage intensity,
the 30 people in the crowd

are going, "Yeah, kill him!"
And you're just like, "Get him!"

But it's like, this is
what you live for.

I don't give a shit
how much money I make,

I don't give a shit
how much of a star I am.

I don't give a ....
about any of that.

I do this for that feeling.

♪

I love the feeling of being
in a locker room

with half of my blood gone,

smoking a cigarette,
drinking a beer.

And that is a feeling
that is so addictive,

what keeps you coming back.

I think that's probably what
keeps Nick Gage coming back too.

Oh, yeah, what a finals
this is gonna be with Nick Gage.

For nearly a decade,
Gage built a reputation

on a fearless
appetite for violence,

but he would be put to the
ultimate test on

the most ruthlessly
unforgiving stage...

the Tournament of Death.

Oh!

Every year, fans descend
on backyard farm lands to

witness a multi-round
endurance test of violence.

[cheering]

Where wrestlers must survive
several gruesome matches

over the course
of a single day.

Oh!

Tournament of Death
takes place in Delaware,

out in this field,
kind of like Woodstock

for Deathmatch wrestling.

Fans out there
parking their vans,

getting drunk, smoking weed.

You know, we need a place
where we can have

blood, and glass,
and fire, and...

cops aren't gonna
break up the party.

It's quite the scene.

[chanting]
Nick ....in' Gage!

In the finals of
the tournament,

Gage is to face Thumbtack
Jack in a fight that would

redefine the meaning of
Deathmatch wrestling.

Nothing could prepare
the crowd for the

real-life horror show that
was about to unfold.

Okay.
This is ....ing insane.

I was right there for this.

My name is Brett Lauderdale.

I'm the owner and promoter
of Game Changer Wrestling.

Definitely been
through it all with him.

Good and bad, you know.
Very good and very bad.

[chanting]
Nick ....in' Gage!

At this time in 2009,

I was a full-time
referee for CZW.

You know, I was in the ring.

[chanting]
Nick ....in' Gage!

This was a really
significant match because

Nick Gage was peaking in
popularity at this time.

He was as popular as he
had ever been in his career.

And, Thumbtack Jack,
I mean,

he was an import from Germany.

You know, he was an
international Deathmatch star.

So, it was really a
clash at that time of like,

the two most popular
Deathmatch wrestlers.

They imported some
....ing douchebag

from ....ing Germany.

They're talking all this
shit about Thumbtack Jack,

"He's tough as hell
and all that shit."

And I'm thinking, man,
this is my ....ing house.

This is my backyard,

and I'm gonna smash
this mother....er.

You know what...

He looks like a
....ing pussy to me.

[cheering]

200-light tube Deathmatch,
entire ring surrounded by

vertical light tubes stuck in
between the ropes.

Complete pit of glass.

[chanting]
Nick ....in' Gage!

I remember him getting
whipped into the ropes,

which were, of course,
surrounded by tubes.

I remember that.

Oh!

And, at first, it didn't
look anything like

out of the ordinary.

Thumbtack Jack!

One of the video guys,
they all reacted immediately.

Oh! Oh, shit!

He's cut!

[Nick] What happened was,
the light tube,

when I hit it,
the top of it snapped.

So, the bottom of it's
sticking there and

I just hit it the wrong
way and then, bang, got me.

Looks down,
lifts his arm and just...

[gurgling]

Oh! Oh, shit!

It was just
buckets of blood.

I'm like, oh, ....,
I'm ....ed up.

I know my body.
It sliced my arteries.

He's cut, bad,
bad, bad, bad!

But we've got-- Nick Gage
has been seriously,

seriously injured.

Thumbtack Jack frustrated
at this turn of events.

[indistinct shouting]
Jon! Jon!

A guy like Nick Gage,
to just get up and walk off

like that, you know
it had to be serious.

[gasping]

The nurse lady, he wanted
her to tape him up

so he could go back to the ring.

Tape that ....ing shit up.
I'm not losing to this dude.

- Tape that shit up, yo.
- Lay down first!

Put a bunch of towels
on it and tape it up.

- No!
- I only got one move, man.

- No, no.
- This is your last move.

Well, can I act like I'm
trying to go out there and

you guys bring me back out?
- No, no, no!

[Brett] For Nick,
it's not registering, you know,

like, "I'm gonna prove how
tough I am by going back

out to the ring and
finishing this match,

even if that means I
have to die out there."

- Let me go back out there.
- Nicky, no.

Get that shit on camera,
that I ....ing want to

go out there, smart mark.

- I know.
- Put this shit on camera.

Nick, Nick! I understand!

....!

♪

♪

I was in the back,
you know, of course,

getting bandaged up
and shit like that.

Cut that ....ing camera!
Cut the camera.

And they're like, "Well,
they're trying to get the

ambulance on the
....ing property,

but the ambulance
can't get on the property,

so we need a helicopter."
[mimics helicopter chuff]

Here comes the ....ing
helicopter landing down.

♪

And I get in the helicopter and

that's the last
thing I remember.

♪

The nurse did say,
"You flat lined while you were

in there and the doctors
brought you back 'cause

you lost too much blood."

Nicky died and was
legally dead for 7 minutes.

♪ [helicopter chuff]

He died at
Tournament of Death.

It's supposed to be
a turn of phrase.

You're not actually
supposed to die.

And he did.

It just cements and solidifies

Nick Gage's spot as a folk hero.

[chanting]
Nick ....ing Gage!

It was probably a boost to
his whole character and

his allure that you
can't kill him.

He says to this day, like,
that he's willing and ready

to die in the ring if
that's what it comes to.

And I mean, can you
doubt him after that?

Oh, no way. No, I don't go
out like that, man.

I'm gonna do this 'til
I can't do it no more.

I already made my mind up.

♪

I've been wanting to do this
since I was probably

9 years old, man.

Grew up in National Park,
New Jersey, born and raised.

I represent that
shit to, to this day.

National Park,
New Jersey's a low income,

probably middle class,
you know,

in the 80s and
stuff like that.

I was raised by
a single mother.

Patty Dukes, Pat Wilson,
man, I love her.

This is my mom, man.
Patty Dukes. Mom Dukes.

The whole town called her
Patty, or Mom Dukes.

Beautiful lady.

Nice one to show everybody
that I was raised the right way,

you know what I mean?

Oh, my gosh. His mom
was everything to him.

Everything, everything.

My name is
Sondra Culbertson.

And, we went to the
same high school.

Been with him for...

20, plus, years now.

His mom would literally
brighten up our day.

It could be the
worst day possible,

she'll just come walking
in the bedroom, "Hey, guys!

I got you food! Let's eat!"
I mean, she was just...

a very, very happy person.

Very happy, and loved Nick.
Loved Nick to death.

My mom had breast cancer so,
we did the walk every year

for the breast cancer
walk of Philadelphia, man.

'Cause I just love her
and I just wanted to,

you know,
it's your mom, man.

You appreciate her.

I had a brother, Chris.

We'd just ....ing
go around, you know,

being crazy, played football,
played baseball.

We were always the
....ing guys who, like,

get in the fight,
in the football.

"Oh, there goes the
Wilson brothers again.

They're fist fighting."

♪

My dad was a big
wrestling fan so,

you know, that's
where it comes from.

We would spend, like,
weekends at his house.

And he's watching
Saturday Night Main Event.

We don't have to turn it on,
Dad's got it on already,

you know what I mean.

Sometimes I think he
regrets that shit,

you know, when he
was alive 'cause, man,

we tore his
....ing house up. Yeah.

♪

We had a backyard
company called

Hardcore Backyard Wrestling.

♪

We would videotape
our ....ing matches

and shit like that.

One time, we took barb wire
from the farm that we bought,

and we wrapped barb wire
around the poles and

we had a no rope barb wire
match on the trampoline.

♪

Probably Japanese deathmatches
we started figuring out.

[Announcer speaking Japanese]

Once I seen Terry Funk and
Cactus Jack doing their thing...

[screaming]

The blood, the violence,
the way they told the story...

We separate the men...

from the old bastards!

It was on.
I'm like, we gotta do this.

This is what I
wanna do, man.

This is awesome!

Then we started
getting into ECW.

- For the love of god!
- Oh!

ECW's the reason why I ....ing
love doing this shit today.

Out of that came CZW.

- [shattering]
- Oh!

And now we're taking it to
a whole 'nother level of

craziness that's never been seen
in the United States before.

...wrestled in every single
CZW Tournament of Death.

Driven by their passion for
the hardcore style of ECW,

the Wilson brothers brought
their backyard wrestling roots

into upstart promotion
Combat Zone Wrestling.

As Nick Gage
and Justice Pain.

Justice...! Pain!

Bam! Ha-ha!

ECW was so offended by it.

"Oh, these guys
might get hurt."

Oh!

Light tubes are
too dangerous?

Get the .... out of here.

They're just mad a new
generation came along

who's tougher and ....ing
crazier than they are.

I love it.

It's a very dangerous
situation in there.

When he's in the ring,
I'm literally right there.

I'm always in the front.
I'm like, "Yeah!

Get him! Kill him!"
I'm right there in the front.

I'm just one of the fans.

[cheering]

Oh, man, there's
gotta be at least...

at least 100,000 of 'em.

When he told me he
was gonna lit on fire,

I told him not to do it.

I think he just told me
he wasn't gonna do it

so I wouldn't be,
like, freaking out.

And so, when it happened,
and I saw the firing coming out,

I'm like,
oh, no, here we go.

[cheering]

Oh!

[hysterical shouting]

I saw him get
lit on fire and,

I think someone told him,
like, stop, drop, and roll.

So, I stop, drop, and roll.

Get this, that shit
don't even ....ing work.

I was still on fire and
then they put me out.

[shouting]

And then finally, he took
off his shirt and

it finally went out.

[indistinct shouts]

After that,
I went into the back.

I never do that.
It's one thing I don't do.

I do not run into the back.

I'll wait to the
end of the show.

But this is one thing,
I did go in the back.

He said he was okay,
but I knew he wasn't.

- Oh, it burns!
- Anywhere else?

- Is it like bubbling and shit?
- It's skin.

It's like peeled skin.

That heat was tough.
I finished that match.

Slammed down!
Someone call 9-1-1!

Well... He was
definitely not going to

physical therapy or exploring
yoga opportunities.

♪ [electronic]

I was popping
heavy, ....ing,

you know,
prescription pills, man.

I was popping percs
and shit like that.

♪

....ing, I'm Nick Gage,
so I'd go into a ....ing

doctor's office, "Oh, give
me 30 ....ing... roxicets."

And then they would
give them to you.

It was crazy.

And like, I'd never
been a druggy guy, ever.

And then, like, you know,
when you don't have them

you're like, "Whoa,
what the ....'s that?"

♪

At some point, OxyContin
got hard to get

because it's very expensive.

He can walk down
the street and

get heroin for $10 a bag and

get all the same effects,
and get more of it.

All of it.
Definitely all of it.

You know, I looked at
him like a guy who was

in trouble and
he had no choice,

and now he's in this
really bad situation.

It is what it is.
I mean, he was an addict.

That was, basically,
his life.

♪

And here we go, fans!
Our main event...

As Nick Gage descends
deeper into addiction,

his career and his
relationship with

his brother Chris
begins to deteriorate.

Face-to-face in the ring,
Chris's anger and

frustration is
about to erupt.

Let's just put
it this way, man.

I went out there and,
I wasn't on top of my game.

And...

I just didn't remember
how to do stuff. Okay?

I guess my brother was a
little upset in the ring so,

he'd say,
"Wake the .... up."

And, literally,
slapped me like a bitch.

[Announcer] ...the current
champion, Justice Pain.

So, I'm like, damn, man,
what the ....?

The soft paw.
Justice Pain,

with that hard left into
the head of his brother.

The match started and,
a few minutes later,

Chris just grabbed him and...

Put him in his finisher,
the Pain Thriller.

Pain thriller! Oh!

You've gotta be kidding me!

- [match bell]
- What?

Pretty much dislocated,
almost broke my shoulder.

And I was very,
very upset about that.

[Brett]
That was very weird.

It was like at the
beginning of the match, like,

aren't you gonna have
a match before you start

working towards the
finishing sequence?

♪ [applause]

After falling out
with his brother,

it seems Nick has
reached rock bottom,

but things get even worse
when his mother

loses her battle
with breast cancer.

Oh, ah... not good, you know?

♪

Now that my mom died,
I didn't give a ...., man.

I didn't really care.

And then I was
starting to, you know,

starting to get
into that shit, you know.

Bad combination,
bro, you know.

Look at his face!

Over the next few years,
Nick spirals further into

desperation and finds himself
on the verge of homelessness.

So, at this time, I pretty
much didn't have no friends

or family no more, you know.

My mom passed away,
my dad passed away.

I didn't talk to my brother.

I didn't talk
to nobody, man.

So, I'm in the ....ing hood
and I move in with, girl's mom.

And... I'm doing nothing, man.

I'm sitting on the couch
doing nothing, man.

And one day, she freaked out
and kicked us

both out in the cold air.

♪

At that point in time,
we weren't really into

going to work, having money,
paying bills and

stuff like that.
We didn't care.

We did not care
at that point.

We did not care.

♪

I was going out of town and,

for some reason,
my trip got cut short.

You know, I walked up to my
door and my door was like...

unhinged, open,
and I was like,

you know, is there
somebody here?

I saw two people
sleeping on the floor,

and I was like, oh, my god,
that's Nick and his girlfriend.

♪

And, I mean, I was pissed.

.... him, man.
Kicked me out of his house.

It was ....ing
ten degrees out.

So, now I'm angry and upset,

and I need money and
I got nowhere to go.

♪

So, that leads to,
you know...

The day of.

♪

I needed money, man,
and I'm freezing, and...

everybody's kicking me out.
So, let me go get mine.

♪

So, I'm walking down the
street and I see this bank.

I look around and
I'm like, ah...

I'm not... And I left.

I pussied out.

So, I'm walking down
the street, like, "Mother....er!

Man, you
....ing pussy, man!"

So, I showed up at
the next bank and

I went right in that bitch, man.

I wrote the note,
handed it to her.

"I have a gun.
Give me all your money."

♪

"Hurry the .... up!"

You know, I had to
lose my temper a little,

you know,
she's taking too long.

♪

She handed me the money and

I ran all the way to my
boy's house, man.

♪

My front door opened.

He just walked into my
kitchen and dropped

a bunch of money on
my kitchen counter.

And, I was like, you know...

"What is that?"

He said to me, "I just
robbed a drug dealer."

And then I
looked at the money,

and we're talking
brand-new, crisp $20 bills.

And, I said,
"Did you just rob a bank?"

So, I'm at home
and I get a call.

"Man! You gotta check
your email, man.

You just got--
you gotta look at it."

I get on the computer and
I open this ....ing email,

and it's a
picture of him, like,

at the bank lobby,
and it's...

it's Nick Gage,
clear as day.

♪

I don't think I even realized
the camera was there.

I think I was just looking
up for some reason, man.

But, I looked
right in that bitch.

It was a spur of the moment
thing, as you can see.

I don't even have a mask on.

[chanting]
Nick ....ing Gage!

Nick Gage always come in the
ring with a handkerchief

on his face, like he's
gonna rob a train.

And the time that he chooses
to not wear the mask

is when he actually
robs a ....ing bank!

♪

I actually found out
from the newspaper.

And, his face is on the front of
the page and I'm like, what?

I, I just didn't
know what to say.

And I'm like, what happened?
And he told me.

And...

I just, I was
with him though.

I didn't leave him,
I didn't turn him in.

I was just with him.

Whatever he does,
I'm with him.

After the robberies,
I'm like, ....,

we gotta get out of here so,
we went to Atlantic City.

My only objective is,
spend this ....ing money.

♪

On the run from the law,
Nick Gage and

his girlfriend Sondra
head to Atlantic City.

Without an end goal in sight,

they enter a casino
with one objective.

I'm thinking,
you're going to prison.

But at least ball out
for like a ....ing week.

♪ [dance music]

This was a tough situation
for me because I'm not gonna

be a snitch and I'm
not gonna rat him out.

But, I told him, when you're
ready to turn yourself in,

let me know.
And you know,

I spoke to him every day
and it was,

"Alright, are you ready?
No?

Alright, well,
talk to you tomorrow."

That went on every day for,
I don't know, 8, 9 days.

And then, he called me and
he said, "I'm done. I'm ready."

♪

I drove to Atlantic City
and I picked him up.

I took him to
Burger King and he got

his favorite, he got a Whopper.

And then it was,
"Guess this is it."

I drank a 40 and I smoked
a couple blunts and,

walked in and
turned myself in.

In the State Supreme
Court of Camden, New Jersey,

Nick pleads guilty to
2nd degree bank robbery

and is sentenced to 5 years

in New Jersey State Prison.

♪

They took me up
to Three North C,

which is a murder block,
gang block,

and a... gun block.

So, they put me
in there, right.

And they just go,
"Go find a ....ing bed."

[exhales]
Go find a bed, right?

That's harder
than you think, man.

Chris never
visited me at all.

No phone calls, no nothing.

[Brett] I visited him
regularly from day one

until the day he walked out.

I honestly felt like he
was like a brother to me,

but Chris
looked down on him.

He thought it was
shameful, you know.

He's a ....ing criminal,
you know.

"My brother's a criminal.
He got himself

into this mess and he can
get himself out of it."

♪

So, I'm just trying to get
everything together and,

all of a sudden,
I started getting

nonstop ....ing fan mail.

From fans that don't know
me from a ....ing lick,

"Keep your head up, man.
You'll get out soon, man.

Stay focused."
And I realized,

"Man, people love me, man."

And it's not just
a couple people,

it's like masses of people.

They really
sent him letters.

No joke,
that's what happened.

That's what kept
him pushing and,

it was really amazing
how many people

really looked up to him.

This is just a stack
that came out of one box

of letters, you know,
that he had,

he had gotten and saved.

I don't think he realized the
impact that he had on people.

There were three
things I wanted to do.

I wanted to come out
and show everybody,

look, I changed my body,
I changed my mind,

I changed my soul. And then,
I wanted to put

....ing Deathmatch wrestling
back on the map, man.

♪

And I started training,
training hard.

I mean, he went from eating
Burger King Whoppers

to exercising hardcore,
twice a day, every day.

On March 31, 2015,

just over 4 years
into his sentece,

Nick Gage is
released on parole.

That whole night
I didn't sleep.

I was so excited.

We went like an hour before
he actually came out so,

we're like looking and
looking and looking,

and finally, I see his big
'ol head walking through,

like, the thing.

As soon as he
opens up that door,

I just took off running.

And it was just one
of the happiest days.

Finally they give me release
papers and I finally

go through them gates,
and then, you know,

you got your girl coming
running up, boom, and...

Lauderdale was
there and, you know,

and shit, man,
it was awesome.

Take this ....ing shit off.
Take it off.

Jesus Christ.

Take that stuff off, man.

We threw that stuff all in
the trash can and everything,

and brought him
his other clothes.

Put 'em back on and, it was,
it was cool, it was cool.

The king is ....ing home!

[cheering & applause]

I just spent 4 and a
half years in ....ing hell!

And you know what,
I was ....ing okay with it.

While Nick Gage returns to

rock his crowds all
over the country,

Brett Lauderdale
becomes the owner of

Game Changer Wrestling.

His goal is to launch
Nick to headliner status,

and as a tribute to him,
Brett's first ever event

would be a
Deathmatch tournament,

appropriately dubbed
The Nick Gage Invitational.

♪

The day before
The Nick Gage Invitational,

and I want to say
maybe around 2:30 or 3pm,

I called his phone and
somebody close to him

answered and was crying,
saying they got him,

they took him.
They ....ing took him and

put him in the car
and he's gone.

♪

♪

He was doing really good
for a while, and then...

You know, he definitely fell
into some bad habits again.

[laughs]
You can't, you know,

you can't run away
from them problems.

They just,
they just follow you.

♪

They brought me in
for the drug test,

and then I tried
to falsify urine.

And they caught me,
you know.

Did he tell you
what happened?

Okay.

- Right.
- Yeah.

That's part of it.

I think there was more to it
than just having

a jar of somebody else's piss.
He may or may not have...

also tried to use
some sort of device,

I don't know,
and they caught him.

And that was it.

♪

You know, I was angry, like,

"You ....ing stupid
mother....er,"

like, "You had everything here
and you couldn't

keep it together,"
you know.

And, "You're in
jail right now."

After being a free man
for only a few months,

a parole violation sends
Nick back to prison

for almost
another two years.

Welcome to Game
Changer Wrestling!

While Nick
serves his sentence,

Game Changer Wrestling
grows to become the

premier promotion for
Deathmatch wrestling.

Determined to give
Nick yet another chance,

Brett Lauderdale continues
to make plans for his return.

♪

The second time, I think I
was way more confident that

he was gonna
stay out this time.

- What's going on, Nick?
- What's up, man?

And, also, it helped that
GCW was like a thing now,

like, we were among
the industry leaders.

So, not only did he have
a home to come back to,

but he was right
back on the big stage.

[cheering]

His popularity grew
while he was gone.

Like, there was no
forgetting about Nick Gage.

Fans are writing me for
7 years I was locked up.

"Just keep your
head up," so,

I wanted to come out and...

you know, my gang be
together, man.

So, I came up with the
Murder Death Kill Gang.

[chanting] MDK! MDK!

Murder Death Kill Gang,
that is my fans.

It means something in my heart,
you know what I'm saying?

[chanting] MDK! MDK!

I didn't realize
how popular I was.

Man, this MDK
everywhere, man.

It's like MDK
....ing Australia,

MDK Europe, MDK Japan.

Whole 50-state MDK, man.

MDK! MDK!

[chanting] MDK! MDK!

While the MDK Gang
continues to grow worldwide,

Brett is arranging
one of the most bizarre

deathmatches in
wrestling history.

Ah, the match
with David Arquette.

I knew you were
gonna ask this one.

[cheering]

♪

I'm David Arquette,

former WCW Champion.

They can't take that
away from me, I'm sorry.

Arquette pairs off with
Bischoff in the ring!

During WCW's
decline in the year 2000,

while promoting the
movie Ready to Rumble,

David Arquette won the
heavyweight championship in

a moment that will forever
live in wrestling infamy.

He's over to Arquette!
1, 2, 3!

[match bell rings]

[cheering]

What started as
a ratings stunt,

would cause wrestling fans
to hold a grudge against

Arquette for
nearly two decades.

Just won the world title!
He can't believe it!

David Arquette won
the world title!

Most of the
audience hated it.

They really thought it was
disrespectful to the belt.

♪

Wrestling was something
that was unfinished for me.

A true wrestling fan
at heart,

Arquette was determined to
earn the respect of fans,

and spent years preparing
for his return to the ring.

When I came back,
they said,

"Do you want to
wrestle Nick Gage?"

And I didn't know
who Nick Gage was.

I looked him up and,
I thought, this is kind of

the perfect place to prove at
least that I'm tough enough.

I just didn't really
want to be a joke anymore.

Arquette made it clear
that not only was he down to

wrestle Nick, he was
down to have a Deathmatch.

Are you sure he wants
to do a Deathmatch?

You know, does he
know what it is?

And he said, "Yeah," so,
I said, "Alright."

So, we went out
to LA, you know,

the day before the show
and we went out,

all had steaks on Arquette.

[David] We met at
Musso and Frank's.

I'm from Los Angeles, so
I wanted to have a

proper lunch at the oldest
restaurant in Hollywood.

[Nick] I said, "Listen,
this shit is not fake.

This shit is real.
That glass is real.

You're gonna bleed.

Are you sure you
wanna do this?"

I knew it was real glass.
I knew it was dangerous.

I'm crazier than
the next person,

so I was into it.

But I clearly said
at that steak dinner,

"Don't cut me.

I'm an actor,
so don't cut me.

I know I'll bleed,
but don't cut me."

So, I was like
no problem, man,

but you gotta know, man,
this is what I do, okay.

And I'm not gonna
go soft on you."

My other guys are nervous
'cause it's David Arquette.

He's a ....ing actor.
I'm just thinking, like,

I'm going to ....ing
whoop his ass.

From Hollywood,
California...

David...!

Arquette!

[cheering]

.... that shit!

[cheering]

You know, I was
supposed to, like,

hit him a couple times,
like, badly.

♪

Oh, my god!

♪

And then he was like,
"Then I'll hit you for real."

Oh, my god!

He just snoofed
David Arquette!

It was just supposed to
be go all out, like,

him ....ing freaking out and
knocking me to the outside

and just diving
through the ropes.

Beautiful!

All that shit's him, man.

That wasn't no
....ing planned out shit.

This guy's
willing to do anything.

Holy shit!

He started like laying
in a little and I'm like,

you know what, I'm about to
take it to the next level.

Oh, no, Gage!

[cheering]

Nick Gage!
Going for blood!

Oh, no!
Oh, my god, pizza cutter.

Demanding the
audience film this!

There was a pizza
cutter involved.

He's like, "You won't even
feel it," and I was like,

this ....ing asshole.

What the .... are
you doing, Nick Gage?!

But I'm like, I'm feeling
like my ....ing forehead's

cut clean open.

Then he put it
in my mouth too.

Nick Gage, no!

At this point, I'm not
having the trust

that you need in a
wrestling mate so,

kind of like building up
to being ....ing pissed.

David Arquette probably
thinking about his spa,

his private air
conditioned garage...

I got a ....ing piece of a
....ing light tube, right?

I smashed it over his head.

Oh!

He's starting to
bug out a little bit.

Oh, my god!
No, no, no!

And it stabbed him
in his neck.

I was like, oh, shit, did I
just kill David Arquette?

♪

♪

Everybody's just like...
[gasps]

"Oh, shit, we're gonna
watch a guy die."

Arquette trying to keep
the blood in, it looks like.

Holy shit!

I've been doing this so long
that I looked at his neck

and there was nothing squirting.
He was fine.

He had a little bit
of a cut and a leak,

and I was like,
oh, he's alright.

Let's ....ing keep going.

Oh!

When Arquette threw
that chair I was thinking, like,

ah, he just ....ed up
and Nick's about to

beat the shit out of
David Arquette for real.

Oh!

I hit him with a Judo throw
and I sat him down,

and I said, "Stay down or
I'm gonna ....ing hurt you."

Here we go!

Gage! Gage just got him!

[cheering & applause]

Holy shit!

He did good, man,

until he started being
a ....ing crybaby.

He ran into ....ing Luke Perry's
car and got out of there and

I haven't
talked to him since.

How are you feeling
after the fight yesterday?

Interesting.

You look in
pretty good shape.

Thank you.

The next day,
they got me at TMZ,

and I was still pissed.

Because, things
went out of control.

I was in over my head.

I shouldn't have been
there in the first place,

but until you're in a
Deathmatch you don't know

what a crazy Deathmatch is.

He's the leader
of the MDK Gang!

Nick's gruesome win
over Arquette went viral,

becoming one of the most

talked about things
in wrestling.

As Nick travels the
country over the next year,

his diehard fan base
continues to grow.

And his personal and
professional life were

finally trending in
the right direction,

until tragedy struck again
on a cold January morning.

♪

When we found out
about his brother,

he was actually
leaving to go somewhere,

I forget where it was.

And, he called me up,
he was very,

like, frantic on the phone.

I'm like, "What are you,
what's going on?"

I was heading into work,
and he told me and I'm like,

"What do you mean?"

[chanting]
Justice Pain! Justice Pain!

Hey, listen,
I'm gonna tell you the truth.

I swear to God,
I didn't feel like wrestling,

I didn't feel
like coming here,

doing this shit,
talking to the people.

I didn't feel
like doing that.

When I got here,
I got in front of

all you crazy mother....ers.

I swear to God, that made me
forget about the situation

and it made me forget about what
my brother did to himself

so, I want to say
thank you to you people.

[cheering & applause]

♪

My brother jumped
off the bridge...

The Walt Whitman Bridge,

if you guys ain't familiar
with that bridge.

♪

You know, he just
left a note saying,

"Sorry," that's it.

My understanding is he stole
a car and the cops

threw the lights on, and before
they could get to him

he ran and jumped off.
And that was it.

Just, it's really
upsetting because

Chris always had
his stuff together.

Like, he had the car,
he had the wife,

he had the kids,
he had the job.

I've known Chris
for so many years.

I never thought Chris
would have done that.

It was... it was
shocking, actually.

For years, Nick was the
one who was in trouble.

And then, as the
years progressed,

they totally
flipped positions.

There was serious
mental health issues,

serious substance
abuse problems.

To the point of
the family leaving.

And Nick would
tell me crazy things.

He would be insisting that
there was somebody

coming for him,
the cops are coming,

the FBI is coming and
serious shit like that.

And that was the first time that
I had ever really felt that,

you know, sensed
that kind of emotion and

feelings from
Nick that, like,

this really did
affect him, you know?

Yeah, I think deep
down and in reality,

probably some regret.

♪

The bridge he jumped off
of is behind my house

so, as soon as I come
out of my house,

I see the bridge every day
that my brother's jumped off of.

So, I kind of say
a prayer for him, just say,

"What's up, Chris?"
And shit like that and...

it's just like, damn, man,
everybody that you

grew up with in your
household is gone and

it's just you rockin' it.

I'm just gonna keep
moving forward, man,

make them proud.
It's the only thing I can do.

Who's to say
what redemption is?

Like, what's the
finish line for Nick Gage?

When is this all a success?

I mean, you could say right
now it's a success, but...

I mean, he's gotta finish it out
now for the rest of his life.

In the traditional sense,
I mean, you know,

in the traditional
addict sense, like,

every day is
like a battle, you know.

And, some people aren't
always up for that battle

every single day.

♪

Time's ticking, you know.

I already know in my mind
that I'm gonna go out young.

Do I have a death wish
or nothing like that?

No, but I feel like I'm gonna
die sooner than later.

I believe that.

Yeah, I'm definitely
cool with that, man, you know.

Just, I'd rather die a
good way than a bad way,

you know what I mean.
Ah, ah.

♪

But I'll tell you what,
I'm 40 years old and

I'm still going
....ing hard, man.

MDK! MDK!

....MDK! MDK!

He's not gonna stop,
and I'm not saying he should

'cause he's got the
#1 talent you need.

It's not biceps, it's not abs.
It's the ability to connect.

Vince McMahon would ....ing
kill to have one person with

that connection with the
audience that Nick Gage has.

I kind of think his story is
just kind of getting started.

If I didn't have him,

I don't know where I
would be right now.

I really do not know.

He is my everything,
he really, really is.

He's my best friend, too.

He gets on my nerves,
don't get me wrong, but he's...

He's alright. He's an alright
guy, I'll tell you that much.

He's alright.
And he's gonna keep going.

He's gonna keep
going until, I guess,

until he turns, like, 60,
maybe he can't go anymore.

I don't know.
[laughing]

♪

Them fans are
....ing awesome, man.

And I think I
represent for, like,

some of them people out
there that's gotten in trouble,

or went through
some things,

and then trying
to bounce back.

Well, look at Gage.
He bounced back like that.

All that shit keeps me going
and I'm ....ing proud of it.

And that's the
MDK Gang, man.

This is for his brother!

Nick Gage with
the Pain Thriller!

- 1, 2, 3!
- [match bell]

[cheering & applause]

♪

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