On Saturday night at IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch Night 2, Nick Gage became the new IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Champion, defeating champion John Wayne Murdoch and SHLAK in a Triple Threat for the title. Later that evening, he defeated Rickey Shane Page in the finals for the IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch tournament, giving Nick Gage the “triple triple” of holding three Heavyweight titles and winning the third deathmatch tournament of his career.
Respect to the King #MDK
Triple Champ@GCWrestling_ @aiwrestling @IWAMidSouth pic.twitter.com/e9LXhdIFJc
— GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) May 20, 2018
This marked Nick Gage’s seventh attempt at the IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch crown, having previously competed in the 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2015 editions, but Gage had never made it past the semi finals. By finally securing a King of the Deathmatch victory, he can add that to his 2006 victory at CZW Tournament of Death V and his victory at last year’s Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) Tournament of Survival 2.
I dare you to fuck wit me pic.twitter.com/q8d5XgHOcK
— Nick FN Gage (@thekingnickgage) May 4, 2015
With his IWA Mid-South Heavyweight title victory, it also marks the third title Gage currently holds, as he won the Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW) Absolute Championship at Hell on Earth 13 in Cleveland last November and shortly after defeated Matt Tremont for the GCW World Championship at December’s Ready To Die event in a Three Layers of Hell Match. For over a decade, Gage was one of the main players with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), in a run from 1999 to 2010, that saw him become a 4x CZW World Heavyweight Champion and 5x CZW Tag Team Champion. But things went south when he was arrested for second degree robbery of a bank in New Jersey. Homeless and addicted to painkillers for nearly a decade, Gage pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. He was finally released in November of 2016 (he’d been re-incarcerated for breaking parole following his prior release in 2015). Upon his return to the wrestling world, his loyalty to CZW had not only waned, but became fractured, with Gage choosing rival GCW as his new official home promotion, as well as Ohio’s AIW, Beyond Wrestling and upstart Black Label Pro. With a renewed sense of focus, Nick Gage has one focus on his mind, and that’s to continue his path of destruction and cement his legacy as one of the most brutally violent wrestlers in the history of the sport.
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— GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) May 19, 2018
Nick Gage will get a chance to defend his Tournament of Survival victory of last year at GCW’s Tournament of Survival 3 on June 2, 2018, in a violent tournament that will also feature 2x AIW Absolute Champion Eric Ryan, Big Japan‘s Takayuki Ueki, Mexico’s innovator of violence Miedo Xtremo (2x World Extreme Champion with the ultraviolence promotion Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU) in Hidalgo, Mexico), the monster SHLAK and 27-year old DTU star Ciclope (not the luchador Halloween who was known as Ciclope during his run in WCW). After TOS3, Gage’s next opportunity is as an entrant in the 2018 Commonwealth Cup tournament with Virginia’s NOVA Pro Wrestling the following weekend. Gage is in for a battle, as his first round opponent is a man on his own new path of destructive redemption, former WWE Tag Team Champion PCO, in a tournament that also features Eddie Kingston, Jimmy Jacobs, former AIW Absolute Champion Tim Donst, Fred Yehi, Wheeler YUTA, “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams, Curt Stallion, and more.
THREE WEEKS AWAY: PCO will go one on one with Nick Gage in the Opening Round of the Men’s #CommonwealthCup
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— NOVA Pro Wrestling (@VAWrestling) May 18, 2018
