May 24, 2024

DEADLOCK Watch This #191

Sometimes, you find gimmick matches that you just have to watch to find out how in the world they turned this into a match.

On this edition of WATCH THIS, we go back to 2003 for this encounter at IWA Mid South between JC Bailey & Mad Man Pondo. The ring is covered in a barbed wire net, and there is a massive scaffold next to the wrong. What could possibly go wrong?!

Watch This!

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Comments (38)

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Joe Gonzalez · February 8, 2026

Hello from 2026. This definitely was originally released on VHS. A 2 tape set!

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Anyone else got nostalgia for the DPW Oatmeal.- The way it felt like cold vom vom going backwards · January 6, 2025

The Pinnacle of death match wrestling. Horrible work, crazy stunt. Like jumping into an above ground pool and not wanting to swim

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Lead Dock · September 28, 2024

How much you reckon these lads got paid for this? A tenner? Mental. EDIT: Tony just said 100. Still crazy.

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Rev · October 1, 2024

Payed in painkillers

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dungus · June 13, 2024

Idk if y'all know him but I used to work with this guy named Mitch Page who used to do a lot of iwa midsouth shows back in the 2000s. And another guy who used to work iwa in the 2010s lmao

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:D · June 22, 2024

mean mitch page!!!!

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jason coward · June 9, 2024

If you ever want to torture Jim Cornette, force him to watch this.

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Maybe The Dingo Ate Your Bussy · June 1, 2024

My favorite part of IWA-MS is Ian's fashion sense of Kenny Chesney shirts, surplus of Cal Ripken merchandise and his 4/20 booking

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Hitting you in the face Spikey Whipwreck style · May 29, 2024

First death match i ever, my 7 year old eyes couldn’t believe this shit

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Russell Williams · May 28, 2024

you guys should watch the Two Ring Circus Death: Scotty Vortekz vs Drake Younger match from czw tangled web 4

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Sergio · May 26, 2024

This was wild - sickening thud at the end.

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CJExtreme98 · May 25, 2024

Watch Dark Starlight Kid vs AZM doesn’t matter which. Haven’t had a stardom watch this in a minute

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CJExtreme98 · May 25, 2024

There must be a winner. Run it back in DP Dub

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FreeWillyGoss · May 25, 2024

holy shit

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Hello, Table for a Mr Bob Tistabaum · May 25, 2024

Holy fuck, that's some fucked fuckery

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the big amish nick kurtz · May 25, 2024

JC BAILEY FOREVER

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Scott Cramer · May 25, 2024

I just remember Mad Man Pondo for being in Fire Pro Returns part of Big Japan, this dude is insane

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vince spreadin da cheeks · May 25, 2024

Real shit

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We are all out of cock is penis okay · May 25, 2024

What a couple of fucked fuckers. That’s INSANE

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HeHateMe · May 25, 2024

I loved how guys ringside immediately sprung into action after every bump into that barbed wire

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Dango Bango · May 25, 2024

JEEZUS. Shouts out to JC Bailey's absolutely TERRIFIED girlfriend at the end there. Just bawling her eyes out.

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ken · May 25, 2024

I'd seen the superplex gif so many times but i still gasped seeing the spot play out in real time, holy shit. fun fact is me and some friends of mine got to eat dinner with pondo and some deathmatch wrestlers about a year ago after a deathmatch tournament in houston. the meal you may ask? rare game hotdogs.

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geeman360 · May 24, 2024

This was so fucked. Holy shit that suplex was insane, I replayed it like 5 times lmao

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FalconX9K · May 24, 2024

Really nice of Quinton Reviews to help Pondo out of the wire

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Lost my dog after 14 years but the pod is helping me laugh through the tears, rest in peace Cinnamon and thank you boys · May 24, 2024

*Smithers voice* BUT HE’S GOT A NEW HAT!

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Felsin · May 24, 2024

These boys, Crazy Crusher and Hellstorm. I am convinced they put some weird shit in our water cause kids are dumb but they aint built like this today. Me and my buddies were jumping off mobile homes for spots cause i still don't know why. I never got paid.

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Hank Kronenberg · May 24, 2024

Them going up to the scaffold not once, not twice, but THRICE? Yeah it's amazing how they managed to get away with that w/o any major harm.

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Happy Tiger Snugglefur · May 24, 2024

Legit can't tell if this was actually a match or not, two guys do a minute of strikes and slowly work their way through 3 spots and then everything abruptly ends. I will say, I love the lack of irony in Putting a guy with the last name "Bailey" in a Circus Deathmatch.

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Cad Chamberlain · May 24, 2024

Was there a point for any of this?

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Real North Carolina judge Dick Boner · May 25, 2024

two guys fall down go BOOM

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Real North Carolina judge Dick Boner · May 24, 2024

James out here like some sort of hat glasses headphones guy

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Trey's Huge Hog · May 24, 2024

This match is for the boys

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my fucking bitch wife left me for my boss richard's kid. I'm gonna have to chase Richard's son down with my car rikishi style · May 24, 2024

James and Fred Flintstone should have a match like this for custody of Wilma

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Treadcutter213 · May 24, 2024

Dom in gi vs Pondo next DPW Live

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rayleeharris · May 24, 2024

The conversation about the show being on DVD or VHS made me curious. The first DVD made in the US was in 03/24/1997 and the final VHS produced was in 2006. Definitely a possibility of this being on both

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Hot and Cold Aaron Cox · May 24, 2024

Nothing brightens my day more than a watch this deathmatch notification

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Hot and Cold Aaron Cox · May 24, 2024

James with hat!?! This is like a chase figure

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runnin spots wit da giant No Mercy block of cheese · May 24, 2024

Pretty sure it's a technical masterpiece Ala Flair Steamboat