Music…
Rygar Medley by Armcannon
Let’s Lynch the Landlord by Dead Kennedys
Smackdown Mall SUPERSTAR THQ (WWF No Mercy)
The Killer Instinct by Van Gough

2008 had a bunch of good moments, but will mostly be remembered for the horrible Hollywood Necro Butcher angle which lasted most of the year. Butcher would have lots of intentionally bad matches (like Mick Foley in ECW) involving Danny Havoc. Butcher eventually realised the error of his ways and vowed to return to normal the next month…and then either no-showed or had travel issues. Either way, Zandig challenged him to a fight in the parking lot and moved on to change the COD Main Event to something else with less than a month’s build. The storyline gave us such timeless memories as Danny Havoc wrestling Butcher’s stunt double, the High Stakes match with three singles titles on the line ending with Butcher pinning Havoc and the decision being reversed because ”it sucked” and finally Nicky Benz wrestling. It’s the year Brain Damage and Drake Younger tore it up, Nick Gage and Drake Younger tore it up, Danny Havoc and Drake Younger tore it up and DJ Hyde fell off a roof, so it’s not all bad.

CZW Follies 2008!

February 9, 2008 – 9 F’n Years
During an epic encounter with WHACKS, DJ Hyde proceeds to break a table by simply laying on it.

The taping of The Wrestler took place at this show. The takes took ALOT out of the live crowd, resulting in many fans being un-cooperating with the directors, and shitting on most matches. During the filming of the scene including Necro Butcher and Mickey Rourke, things got so bad that fans started to leave in droves, Only to be told that if they stayed ” there would be a big surprise, but we can’t tell you what it is now”
The “surprise” ended up being a Javierre run-in.

May 17, 2008 – Tournament of Death 7
DJ Hyde and Andy Sumner engage in a classic battle, taking their brawling all the way to the roof of Bulldozer’s Saloon. Upon reaching the roof to do battle, DJ Hyde slips in a puddle, through several tables below. Hilarity ensues.

Both hyped 1st round bouts – Drake Younger vs Nick Gage and Necro Butcher vs Danny Havoc, being bait and switched, the first into a tag team match, and the second into Danny Havoc vs the Necro Butcher’s stunt double. Pinkie Sanchez, Greg Excellent, and Danny Demanto have their respective tournament bouts go off without a hitch.

August 10, 2008 – Violence in Vineland
rohnews… for those wondering… Rain or Shine… today’s show… “VIOLENCE IN VINELAND” will go on as scheduled.
Show was canceled due to rain.

December 13, 2008 – Cage of Death 10
Between smeezing in the parking lot and waiting in line, nearly every person in attendance for Cage of Death had backhandedly found out about the planned cage explosion. Most of this information was exposed by Brett Lauderdale, a rogue CZW referee simply looking for approval from his peers that he will never find.

Following, as should be expected, a largely awful and senseless show, the demonic cage structure was built, and it was ten stories tall if it was a foot. Due to the normal poor planning and blamed on the Necro Butcher, this match was largely thrown together with the sole intention of violence, and exhibited no effort to wrap up a storyline.

With 5 men atop the cage, 2 people were suplexed onto the chain-link roof cage, triggering the single worst explosion in the history of professional wrestling. Made the IWA KOTDM 1995 explosion look like Hiroshima, leaving Zandig visibly angry and confused.

dan has a cardiac event from laughing so hard at this much hyped up explosion.

Match ends with John Zandig inexplicably grabbing the prize money, and subsequently handed it out to the competitors in the match. Not a single person in attendance had any idea how or why this match ended.