21 Facts About Devon Nicholson

Devon Nicholson is a Canadian professional wrestler who has wrestled under the names of Kid Nichols, Hannibal and Blood Hunter.

Devon Nicholson is a professional wrestling promoter, running the Great North Wrestling company, and has a YouTube channel, The Hannibal TV.

Graduate of the Hart Dungeon, Nicholson has wrestled internationally with several promotions.

Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in 2014 that Devon Nicholson contracted hepatitis C from Abdullah the Butcher in a May 2007 professional wrestling match during which both wrestlers were cut and bled, and further determined Abdullah was responsible for WWE rescinding a contract offer made to Devon Nicholson in 2009 after he was diagnosed with the disease.

In December 2021, Devon Nicholson repeatedly stabbed a World Class Pro Wrestling referee with a spike, resulting in a severed artery in the referee's head that needed emergency surgery.

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Devon Nicholson won a gold medal at the 2001 Junior National Championships in London, Ontario.

Devon Nicholson won the OFSAA wrestling high school championships in 2000 and 2001 without a single point scored against him.

Devon Nicholson started his professional wrestling career in 2001 with Stampede Wrestling, after training in the Hart wrestling family dungeon from the age of 19.

In 2007, Devon Nicholson started a professional wrestling company, which by 2015 was called Great North Wrestling.

Devon Nicholson has wrestled against AJ Styles, Jinder Mahal, James Storm, Abyss, Kevin Nash, Sycho Sid and Tommy Dreamer.

Devon Nicholson had wrestled Abdullah the Butcher nine times from 2006 to 2009; most of these matches involved bloodshed.

Devon Nicholson accused Shreve of taping a razor blade to Shreve's finger which cut both Shreve and Devon Nicholson, passing the disease through their blood.

Devon Nicholson stated that he did not consent to being cut, and that Shreve had "prematurely ended" his professional wrestling career; he instead became a personal trainer in Ottawa at the Ray Friel Centre.

In December 2013, Nicholson announced that he was cured of hepatitis C According to Nicholson, he received a recommendation in 2012 from fellow wrestler and hepatitis C sufferer Billy Graham to speak to his doctor, Hector Rodriguez-Luna, who recommended that Nicholson undergo experimental treatment with telaprevir, a drug commonly used to treat hepatitis C genotype 1, although Nicholson had hepatitis C genotype 2.

In June 2014, Devon Nicholson won his lawsuit against Abdullah the Butcher, who was found guilty of negligence, assault and battery in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, as the judge ruled that Shreve had indeed spread hepatitis C to Devon Nicholson in the May 2007 wrestling match.

On December 11,2021, at a World Class Pro Wrestling show, Devon Nicholson, who was wrestling as the masked Blood Hunter character, competed against Carlito.

WCPW referee Colby Cowperthwaite, who pulled Deltoro away from the attack, accused Devon Nicholson of going "totally off the hinges", not listening to instructions, and hiding the spike; Cowperthwaite described that "something was off" with Devon Nicholson that night as he was not walking properly.

WCPW commentator Brittani Nikole Houghtlen stated that Devon Nicholson went off-script by actually using the spike, was pulled off by his valet Blaze in another off-script event, but then "fought with the other refs, got back in the ring and started to stab Lando [Deltoro] more".

Fightful reported an anonymous source involved with the show stating that they saw Devon Nicholson holding beer two hours before the incident, then Devon Nicholson stayed "in his RV until it was time for his match, which he took five minutes to arrive to and smelled like booze".

Months later, Devon Nicholson retired from wrestling to focus on an acting career.

Devon Nicholson was arrested for assaulting a woman in August 2022.