{"id":105921,"date":"2021-12-14T06:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=105921"},"modified":"2021-12-14T06:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:39:47","slug":"referee-hannibal-hospitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/14\/referee-hannibal-hospitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Gruesome Attack on Referee by Indie Wrestler \u2018Hannibal\u2019 Causes Hospitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A gruesome scene took place at World Class Revolution&#8217;s event \u2018Christmas Star Wars\u2019 in Irving, Texas. Independent wrestler and YouTube personality, <\/span><b>Devon Nicholson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, better known as \u2018Hannibal\u2019 allegedly stabbed referee <\/span><b>Lando Deltoro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a sharp object, leading to his hospitalization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicholson, who was performing under the mask as a \u2018Bloodhunter\u2019 had a match with Carly Colon, aka \u2018Carlito\u2019, and decided to go \u2018off the script\u2019 when things didn\u2019t go according to the plan. According to another referee who was present at the event, <\/span><b>Colby Cowperthwaite<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nicholson was nowhere to be found before the matchup, and he was stumbling during his entrance and had problems balancing himself when he tried to climb the turnbuckles. Cowperthwaite has informed Colon about his suspicions about Bloodhunters state and both decided to end the match as soon as possible. After the match, two referees, including Cowperthwaite had escorted brawling Colon and <\/span><b>Andrew Anderson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as it was planned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicholson was to be escorted by a third referee, <\/span><b>Lando Deltoro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who was prepared to do a blade job, and then things went horribly wrong. According to Cowpertwaite, Deltoro had problems with making himself bleed, which made Nicholson lock him in a Rear-naked choke and hit him multiple times in the head with a metal spike. It caused a torn artery in his head.\u00a0 Cowperthwaite told other persons backstage to call 911, then he rushed back to ringside and started to hit Nicholson in the leg to force him to release Deltoro, which he does after the intervention of his girlfriend, who was acting as his manager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deltoro was taken backstage, and Cowperthwaite gave his statement to the police. In his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_163942571152212&amp;key=5ef840cd8d8214611115d8a36d4f23a1&amp;libId=kx523mae01036gyw000DL4kg5k3db&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightful.com%2Fwrestling%2Fexclusives%2Fwrestler-hannibal-devon-nicholson-attacks-referee-causing-hospitalization&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FSquaredCircle%2Fcomments%2Fretb6r%2Flastnight_hannibal_went_into_business_for_himself%2F&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F&amp;title=Wrestler%20%22Hannibal%22%20Devon%20Nicholson%20Attacks%20Referee%20Causing%20Hospitalization%20%7C%20Fightful%20News&amp;txt=to%20Reddit\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reddit <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post he wrote that promoter of the event, <\/span><b>Kevin Sulivan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> told him to \u2018kayfabe the cops\u2019. It was announced that World Class will sever its ties with Nicholson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-lando-with-medical-expenses?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&amp;fbclid=IwAR0NeEpQzJMvC8TQL2q7tugoyrUlVp9--sMcw-JQvqAytdqQgMWXvFwTXtM\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fundraiser campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help Deltoro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gruesome scene took place at World Class Revolution&#8217;s event \u2018Christmas Star Wars\u2019 in Irving, Texas. Independent wrestler and YouTube personality, Devon Nicholson, better known as \u2018Hannibal\u2019 allegedly stabbed referee Lando Deltoro with a sharp object, leading to his hospitalization.\u00a0 Nicholson, who was performing under the mask as a \u2018Bloodhunter\u2019 had a match with Carly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":106034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,2192],"tags":[7234],"class_list":["post-105921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-independent-wrestling-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}