The Trade Page #4

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You have to realize, I really

didn't want to come back

when I made the return to CZW.

It was uncomfortable for me.

Being so far removed from wrestling,

you have to understand it was 10 years

since I walked away from the ring.

It's not easy to just

get back in character,

to step in and do that.

But it was something I

actually felt I should do.

Cage of f***ing

death, everybody!

So the tables are accounted for.

The panes of glass are accounted for.

Now the serious stuff

is about to happen.

What do you think

about this whole deal?

I can't watch this stuff,

this makes me nervous.

Back here waiting for

your music or whatever,

it's like you gotta get

in the mindset of like

pretty much like you're

walking into your funeral.

There's always a little

bit of butterflies.

You don't want to get hurt.

I don't want any of these

other people to get hurt.

What do you think?

Of the match?

Yeah, are you excited, nervous?

Nervous.

And in passing, I'm like,

was that Sick Nick Mondo?

Because I had no idea.

But I mean the fact that

he's here is just like,

A big deal, right?

Yeah, you know tomorrow

that's all that's gonna be

talked about, oh, Mondo, oh, Mondo.

I was absolutely shocked.

That's a shoot, that is an absolute shoot.

That's not Greg Excellent,

that's Greg Skipper.

I will tell you, that's

a f***ing surprise.

Out of the blue.

He heard about the cage and contacted me

about what was going on in the cage match.

He wants to be here just to make sure

I pretty much don't die in this match.

That's the reason why he's actually here.

Beautiful.

Nick, Matt, thank you for coming back.

My man Matt Tremont.

If he ain't pumped up yet,

I'm about to punch him

in the motherfucking face.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time

for your main event

of the evening.

CZW, CZW!

CZW, CZW!

Oh!

Oh, a brain buster on the platform!

Oh, my God.

I think he's eliminated.

And there is a man without

a care in the world.

Oh!

Oh!

Little fight left in

Havoc but not for long.

Oh, my God!

Oh, oh, oh, my God!

Indoor chair-shot record set.

Everyone, fighting through hell right now.

Pull the string!

Pull the string!

Pull the string!

Pull the string!

Oh, my God!

It looks like glass,

thumbtacks, and legos.

Oh, no!

Christ Almighty!

No, no, no, no, no!

Oh, Jesus, he died, the man's dead.

What?

That's Sick Nick Mondo!

Holy sh*t!

Mondo, Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo, Mondo!

No way!

There is one hero left.

I have never heard this crowd

so loud as I do right now.

Lucky 13, oh!

It's over.

Mondo, Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo, Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo, Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo, Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo, Mondo!

No!

No!

No!

10 years ago, I was out there,

and it was you.

I was watching you!

I came out here to live up

to you, and f***ing you left!

You left these people.

He left you!

He left you!

Out here, and now I'm

here, and he left you!

And I get no f***ing respect!

No respect!

I know you don't feel

respected by these people.

I know you don't feel

respected by the wrestlers.

I came back here to tell you something.

You've done enough.

You've done enough to earn my respect.

I earned your respect?

That's all I ever wanted.

That's all I ever wanted was

my idol to come back to CZW.

I just want to say,

from the bottom of my heart,

this is my last match ever.

And I just want to thank everybody here.

I just want to thank everybody.

This is my last match,

and there's no other way

I could go out, than with him here.

And that's it,

that's his last match ever.

That's all he wanted,

that's all he did this for.

And he finally got what he wanted.

Yeah, what a scene here.

Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo, Mondo!

I mean Rory Mondo felt as though

he had been forgotten about.

But it seems like the

one person the whole time

that never forgot about him

was his idol, Sick Nick Mondo.

Some people wrestle for titles.

Rory Mondo wanted the respect

of the guy that he idolized.

He used to sit front row for the shows

back at the ECW Arena and watch

Sick Nick Mondo destroy himself.

He modeled his entire life.

Not his career, his

entire life after that.

I'm stepping in the ring to try to be

one of the most famous

independent wrestlers of all time.

Few can ever match what

he did in the ring.

He had that it factor.

And I'm trying to replicate that

and not natural at all at

it, so it's really difficult.

I don't feel like I lived

up at all those first

couple years to that

expectation to be like him.

So fast forward to the

Cage of Death moment.

I think at that time

everybody in the entire place

was on their feet, whether

they hated me or not,

because Nick Mondo, one,

was in the building,

and two, it was a very

emotional moment for everybody.

Even my friends who were there freaked out

and they barely knew who he was.

They didn't have that

connection that I did.

And they were like, oh, my God.

Talk about a special moment.

Just not for me retiring.

Everybody, I'm sharing

the ring with the guy

who I wanted to be my entire life.

Are you aware of

the legacy you left behind?

Do you realize kind of like

the magnitude inside CZW

of what your career means

to so many of the guys

that came after you?

You're still considered to this day

one of the icons of death-match,

and it's been 10 years since

you even stepped in a ring.

I saw Sick Nick Mondo

the first time ever

at IWA King of the Death-matches.

Mondo, Mondo!

Mondo!

I remember standing right by the table

and he got thrown off the

balcony, took that big bump.

But I remember taking

pictures as he was coming down

and just going, this is what I'm gonna do.

I thought the dude was

gonna die, personally.

But when he didn't, I was

like, this dude is so much

what I imagine myself in a

couple years being, doing this.

But I tell you, after that night,

I just remember it was the

beginning of a lot of pain.

The beginning of a whole lot of pain.

Physical pain.

Emotional pain.

Wrestling is a journey in pain.

Nothing to be ashamed of, kid.

You're welcome back at our house any time.

Hey J.D. Horror here.

Mondo was a huge influence on my decision

to get into death-match wrestling.

Just his innovation, his creativity.

Hello, I'm 14 years old.

Nick Mondo has positively

influenced my life

by getting me involved

with death-match wrestling.

That's one of the best things

that's ever happened to me.

He was one reason the younger stars

needed to raise that bar.

And the bar's been set by

Sick Nick so many times.

Life or death, he made

sure he gave the fans

what they wanted to see.

I took that in my own personal level.

I'm willing to do whatever it takes.

My God, to the stomach.

Oh, my God, look at the stomach

of Bryant Woods, I hope there's

a camera closeup of that.

Then Cage of Death, Nick Mondo returns.

An epic pause.

And there he is.

How awesome is that?

For him to come back

10-plus years later,

after he's been gone and

stopped in this business,

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