John Zandig is the founder and former owner of the promotion Combat Zone Wrestling.
15 Facts About John Zandig
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Shortly after debuting, Zandig opened a professional wrestling school, in New Jersey in order to hone his skills.
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From its early stages, CZW was oriented towards hardcore wrestling; John Zandig himself has been involved in many ultraviolent matches since the company's inception, involving such objects as thumbtacks, fluorescent light tubes, barbed wire, and a weed wacker.
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John Zandig wrestled in Japan as the leader of CZW to compete for Big Japan Pro Wrestling.
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At Cage of Death 8, John Zandig lost to Nick Gage in a four-way Cage of Death match that included Lobo and LuFisto.
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John Zandig was filling in for Necro Butcher, who couldn't make it to the show.
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John Zandig came out of retirement at Tournament of Death 6 to face the Necro Butcher in a no-rope barbwired match when Necro Butchers original opponent, Mitch Ryder, could not make the show due to travel issues.
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John Zandig came out of retirement for the third time at Cage of Death X, defeating Danny Havoc, Brain Damage, Drake Younger, Sami Callihan and Devon Moore in the 10,000 dollar Cage of Death match.
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John Zandig announced that he had sold CZW, not for the price he wanted, but due to the economy it was enough to get him to sell.
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On May 8,2010, John Zandig returned to the ring at CZW's Fist Fight and defeated Brain Damage in a Tournament of Death 9 qualifying match.
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John Zandig returned to the ring on the 5th of June 2016 in another deathmatch tournament organised by him, this time in Game Changer Wrestling, called Tournament of Survival.
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John Zandig was not scheduled in the tournament and was to go one on one with Joey Janela, but when wrestler Scott Summers could not compete anymore, he took the helm and got to the finals as well as defeating Janela, hitting another rooftop Mother F'n Bomb onto Janela through a burning plytube board with light tubes on top of a truck.
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John Zandig returned to CZW on June 11,2016 for the annual Tournament of Death.
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John Zandig appeared in the video game Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, and made a cameo in the wrestling drama The Wrestler.
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John Zandig was featured in VICE's Dark Side of the Ring.