Nick Mondo
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| Birth name | Matthew T. Burns |
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| Born |
March 28, 1980 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Nick Mondo |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 m) |
| Billed weight | 202 lb (92 kg) |
| Trained by | Bodyslammers Gym |
| Debut | March 1999 |
| Retired | July 26, 2003 |
Matthew "Matt" T. Burns (born March 28, 1980) better known by his ring name "Sick" Nick Mondo is a retired American professional wrestler. Burns is best known for his appearances with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). He was known throughout his career for his willingness to take extremely dangerous bumps, such as being hit with a weed wacker, getting thrown into a table covered with barbed wire, slammed from a distance of 40 feet onto lightubes and concrete and other ultraviolent spots. In 2004, Burns was inducted into CZW's Hall of Fame.
During his start out in 1999, In Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling, he would feud to the likes of Eddie Valentine. His CZW debut was on May 6, 2000 against Trent Acid, at A Living Hell. At Caged to the End on June 10, 2000, he was involved in a Three Way Dance against Mercury and Ty Street. He fought Justice Pain on June 25, 2000, in a field in the Champs Arena, titled They Said It Couldn't Be Done, A few months later he teamed up with Ric Blade and fought The Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid and Johnny Kashmere), which saw Blade at the end of the match after a Senton bomb off the Champs Arena wall through two stacked tables with Acid on top, and Kashmere under. Mondo would turn on his partner.
The feud would still go on as at Crushing The Competition on February 10, 2001 in Sewell, New Jersey, Blade would team up with Super Crazy to take on Mondo in a Handicap 3-way ladder match. The feud would end in a "Barbed Wire Ladder Match" as well a huge swanton an off the Champs Arena wall on to Mondo through a table, As well as breaking Mondo's nose during the match.
The fans bring the weapons tag-team match featuring Mondo and Jun Kasai vs Justice Pain and Johnny Kashmere at Un F'N Believable in April 2001 included plenty of blood, (Kashmire was a sub for Wifebeater), Kasai competed in a match which was later dubbed Un F'N Believable, in reference to the shows name. During the match, Kasai was crucifix bombed over the top rope into lightubes, barbed wire and tables, causing Kasai's elbow bone to pop out of his skin, he continued the match after having his elbow taped up. Mondo's first title capture was the Iron Man title win against Wifebeater and Mad Man Pondo at Breakaway Brawl in June 2001, Mondo was involved the extremely violent 6 man tag team match with Zandig, Wifebeater, and Nick Mondo vs The Backseat Boyz and Justice Pain at H8 Club Dead? in July 2001, in this match his back was a mess of blood. Mondo was in an unforgettable no rope barbed wire match in the pouring rain, with Nick Mondo vs Nick Gage at And Justice And For All in August 2001, he was splashed through a table by Gage, taking a huge bump off the entrance way during a falls count anywhere three way vs Adam Flash and Nick Berk at CZW's biggest show ever Cage of Death 3 in December 2001.
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