Danny Havoc interview about life-threatening Injuries in pro wrestling.

DVLH video. Danny Havoc won the seventh annual CZW Tournament of Death on May 17, 2008. In the first round, Havoc advanced by beating the Ram in a light tube bundles match. In the semi-finals, Havoc and Nick Gage advanced by beating Pinkie Sanchez and Greg Excellent in a fans bring the weapons match. In the finals, Havoc was pitted against Drake Younger, Scotty Vortekz, and Nick Gage in a no rope barb wire 200 light tubes match to a single pinfall.[8] During the match Havoc was chokeslammed on two chairs by Necro Butcher and was dropped out of the ring by Nick Gage, but his arm caught the barb wire and was badly cut from his triceps to his armpit.[9] The same year, he also won the IWA Deep South Carnage Cup, advancing over the Juggulator, WHACKS, and beating Nick Gage, Freakshow, and Corey Shaddix in the finals. He gained The CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship at Decision '08 after then-Champion Drake Younger, who also held The CZW World Heavyweight Championship gave him the Title following a four-way match. [10]

Havoc recently made it to the finals of wXw's Gorefest II tournament in Germany, losing to Thumbtack Jack in a lighttubes and barbed-wire pits match. Havoc had defeated Thumbtack Jack the month before in the US to retain his Ultraviolent Underground Title.

Havoc recently was also the center of a G4 Underground segment on Deathmatch wrestling in the US. It followed him to his defense of his Ultraviolent Underground Title against Thumbtack Jack and also his private life with his wife.

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[MAJS444]

Barbed wire is not that bad. Snags from getting dropped on tight barbed wire ropes (like Havoc at TOD 7) are the most dangerous.

Barbed wire boards are not that painful.

Glass is dangerous. I did broken glass yardtarding around 9 years ago.

Danny Havoc is a really good wrestler who does not have to self-mutilate to find work in Indy wrestling.

Makes more sense to work on being a really good wrestler. Gotta be tough to wrestle stiff. Deathmatch implements too often cover for poor wrestling.

[ChildrenOfNodom]

Me too O.o and all my friends say: you'll change your opinion when you're older and i'm like: No.. I love it.. I'm in love with deathmatches and I want to PARTICIPATE

[dele3344]

That cut in Havoc's arm at TOD 8 was fucking brutal. His pain tolerance is on another level with the rest of those guys.

[jmaster779]

@ChildrenOfNodom man you make a good point but i think like your friends

[jmaster779]

@ChildrenOfNodom not me my friend theyre are to violent but cool comment

[bettydaw1970]

i was at a backyard event 9 years ago, just a spectaor when a guy hit another guy with a light tube about 50 feet away across the chest as if he was swinging the tube like a baseball bat... 1 of the pieces hit me in the side of my knee, and that cut would not stop bleeding!!!! what if that lil piece hit me in the eye? bye bye eyeball..

btw nice shirt for this guy!!!!!

[Crossoverboy333]

henrymarriottczw15 a hit with a tube isn't hard at all. It's a difference sometimes iyou won't feel the tube and in some cases it will hurt like hell ^^

[MAJS444]

I think that Necro's matches with Samoa Joe did more to get him over than deathmatches. That and the ROH-CZW feud. You can hardly call the great ROH Cage of Death match a true deathmatch.

All those guys you named are only over in deathmatch crowds. Some of them are completely unknown outside of deathmatch crowds. I don't disagree that good deathmatches helped them get over to those crowds, but they would not help them get over in, say, ROH, where stiff technical wrestling is what the fans want

[henrymarriottczw15]

I agree on everything you've said today apart from your comment about deathmatches don't help the wrestlers get over as much as people may think. I disagree because if not for KOTDM 2006, Drake wouldn't be the star that he is now, if not for the infamous SAW deathmatch, Thumbtack Jack wouldn't he huge in Europe and the US like he is now. Same with DM guys like Necro Butcher, JC Bailey, Danny Havoc, SeXXY Eddy (after TOD 3, he became a huge DM draw), Brain Damage, Toby Klein and loads more!

[MAJS444]

It all depends how over the guy is.

Necro is way over. I think his matches with Samoa Joe did a lot for him, they were fucking awesome..

I was blown away with how many people were at that XPWs Cold Day in Hell, looked like 1500 people, but they had Sean Waltman booked.

Waltman is going to outdraw ANY deathmatch wrestler.

I like DMs, but I do not think they help a guy get over as much as some would think.

They make a guy take on a particular style which is going to put off some people.

[henrymarriottczw15]

As it goes, Necro proberly gets paid more than many other legit and great wrestlers mostly because many indy promotions want necro to wrestle for them because he is a huge draw (proberly because he played a role in the film 'The Wrestler') -

But i dout he gets paid the same amount as Bryan Danielson as he gets booked alot in Pro Wrestling NOAH, and that is proberly the biggest japanese wrestling promotion so he gets alot.

But the average DM guy proberly gets more then a 'normal' wrestler.

[MAJS444]

I guess some guys would get paid more to do deathmatches. Drake is about as reliable a source as you'll find on the subject.

That said, I do not think that top notch straight wrestlers like Tyler Black and Bryan Danielson make less money than Necro Butcher, and Necro makes more money than any other deathmatch wrestler I can think of.

Being a good draw is more important than doing DMs insofar as getting booked. However, doing DMs can sometimes help you become a draw. Plus, DMs sell DVDs.