John Zandig

And this is John Kasai.

It came with Zandig, who I kind of really don't want, but I'm going to keep him anyway.

John Zandig used to own CZW.

They

make a Zandig toy.

Jesus! Yes, they do.

Oh, my God.

What? I forgot this.

And the company was kinda founded on that a- and has been built into what it is today.

When you took it over from Zandig, obviously, w- did Zandig want to ge- kinda get out of wrestling? What was, you know, his, like, a, I guess you could say his retirement, if you will?

Uh, I mean, a- at the time, I mean, the honest, honest answer is at the time- John was done.

I mean, the company, I mean, realistically he came to Maven and, and myself and a couple other people and was like, "Shut it down." Um, [sighs] you know, there's a lot of core people who were already doing a lot of different things behind the scenes.

I mean, you could always ask John, he might say something different, but to me, I mean, I just think John was, you know, just burned out and done at that point, you know? And, and, and the family situation just really changed everything.

I gotcha.

I just remember like just a, a funny little tidbit about Zandig when I went to a bunch of shows, but I was just talking to Messiah not that long about this, and he wins the CZW title and for some reason Zandig ends like the celebration, the title celebration to let him know that Championship Leather screwed him and that Messiah would have had a new belt, but he has to give him the old belt because Championship Leather screwed him.

I was like, why do we as the fans need to know [laughs] need to know this? But it was so funny.

No. Isn't there that, like, uh, CZW two-pack? Doesn't that have a staple gun?

Yeah, I think there might be a Danzig or someone with one.

A Zandig?

Yeah, Zandig.

You've got it.

This is un-fucking-

Yeah,

it's kind of like your Zandig...

Was it Mondo? Zandig's Mondo moment from CCW? Yeah.

That match pretty much sucked, but that moment lives in infamy.

I had a... one that you know i think it was kind of i think it gets forgotten again i'm gonna i i i love mickey knuckles so from nhb 36 i had uh mickey knuckles versus casey cattell

So, like, I just, I remember one of the very first things I learned was no matter what your experience level is, you're gonna help the people who came in after you.

Like, that's how the original CCW Wrestling Academy under Zandig and John Dahmer was run.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I wanted to talk to you about.

So, yeah, I kept bugging John Zandig.

Anybody know John Zandig? Everybody knows John Zandig.

Yeah.

Shout out to Zandig if he's watching this.

going nuts.

So let's bring it back to that very first tournament of death.

It was billed as Zandig's ultra-violent tournament of death due to a storyline of John Zandig losing ownership of CZW to Lobo, thus promoting his own deathmatch tournament.