If you were unaware – David Arquette is currently in the midst of a massive pro-wrestling comeback. He’s working the biggest and best independent shows all over the country right now, and he actually spoke about the experience on KFC Radio as well as Lights, Camera, Barstool last week!

WARNING: Although you can’t see much in this video as far as the slice to the throat, I will warn the squeamish that it’s a bit of a disturbing watch. I think as any throat injuries are.

For those not even sure how Arquette holds a connection to wrestling in the first place, allow me to briefly catch you up…

David Arquette was the star of a movie called ‘Ready To Rumble’ in 2000.

It was a movie marketed towards wrestling fans, featuring many of WCW’s top talents, that treated wrestling fans as idiots who had no idea if the “sport” were real or not, and just sort of made a mockery of the business altogether. I love it because of how dreadfully terrible and unfunny it is, it’s one of those so-bad-its-good flicks, but most wrestling fans’ll probably go into a state of PTSD if you bring it up in conversation. Mainly because, well…

Vince Russo, WCW’s booker at the time, thought putting the most prestigious championship in the history of professional wrestling on David Arquette would be a great move to generate buzz for both the film and World Championship Wrestling.

I think most would consider this to be when they knew it was all over for WCW, sending them into the palm of Vince McMahon, ready to be purchased and shut down.

Since then, Arquette has sorta received a Steve Bartman reaction from wrestling fans worldwide…until now.

Last night, at Joey Janela’s LA Confidential, Arquette faced Nick Gage – a notoriously terrifying independent wrestling both in and out of the ring, who just got out of a five year sentence for second degree bank robbery – in a deathmatch (basically a much more hardcore version of a hardcore match, usually heavily featuring florescent light tubes), which is pretty much the best possible example of something you could do to get wrestling fans back on your side, because if you’ll do that you MUST love this industry…and unfortunately Gage just about sliced this poor motherfucker’s jugular open in the midst of it.

After some initial panic, Arquette did his best to complete the match for the fans in attendance, but rushed to the backstage area immediately after the finish and was transported to a nearby hospital to be attended to, where he luckily got the help he needed in time.

Personally, I’ve never been a fan of deathmatches. I like my wrestling fake. You wanna get a little hardcore? Great. I ain’t into mutilation, though. That’s where I check out. STILL, though – I have the utmost respect for Arquette for taking a chance and trying one out, really diving head-first into it and just living his life the way he wants to live it. That’s really fucking admirable.

Wishing you a speedy recovery, David, and honestly – I’m sorry for ever calling you the worst champion in professional wrestling history. Clearly that title belongs to Jinder Mahal and I’m sorry it took me so long to realize that.