LOS ANGELES — A bloody deathmatch between actor David Arquette and Nick Gage ended in bizarre fashion Friday night at Joey Janela’s LA Confidential.

Arquette got up right after the three count and left the ring, no-selling the finish. He was clutching his neck for a few minutes and seemed to be bleeding from it, courtesy of multiple light tubes shattering on his head. Arquette was covered in glass at the end, with some shards sticking in him.

Afterward, while Gage was cutting a promo on Arquette — saying he should have expected such a bloodbath — Arquette came back out to the entrance area and cursed at Gage. It seemed to be legitimate heat and not something planned. The crowd at the end knew something was not right. The card, put on by Game Changer Wrestling, aired on pay-per-view at Fite TV.

I think it’s right about here where David Arquette got it in the jugular & he was bleeding a freaking lot. Holy hell. #JJLAC pic.twitter.com/zruTuE5VtP — Heather Wixson (@thehorrorchick) November 17, 2018

The match was bloody and brutal. Gage put Arquette threw a door with a spear in the corner and hit the actor multiple times in the head with parts from that door. Arquette landed a plancha off the top on Gage and a pair of suicide dives to the outside the a chair. Gage went to the back later to get light tubes, which he smashed over Arquette’s head.

Arquette was able to turn the tide and put Gage through light tubes that were resting on a pair of chairs with a cutter. He did a cannonball onto Gage with light tubes on top of him and then played to the crowd.

That’s when Gage came up behind him and started slicing up Arquette’s head with a pizza cutter. From there, things seemed to get pretty intense. There were more light tube shots from both men. At one point, Arquette left the ring clutching his neck, seemingly bailing out of the match for real. It happened after Gage seemingly cut Arquette’s neck accidentally with a light tube. But then he came back, which led directly to a sloppy, botched finish and Gage getting the three count.

It almost appeared that Arquette was shooting on Gage and Gage just threw him down, but it was hard to tell, because Arquette is so green as a wrestler. Arquette, 47, is a former WCW champion during a dark era of that company, but after almost 20 years he has returned to pro wrestling on the indie scene of late.

Gage, meanwhile, is an ex-convict, a fact that is used heavily in his act. He’s one of the more violent deathmatch wrestlers in the United States. In his promo afterward, Gage said deathmatch wrestlers “bleed every day — and we love it.”

That is gonna be the most talked about Indy match of the last 10 years.... holy fuck what happened? #JJCLAC — Bad Boy Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) November 17, 2018

Arquette was a short-notice replacement to face Gage. Joey Ryan, Gage’s initial opponent, tore his pectoral muscle (and others) last week and was forced off the card. Janela, one of the promoters of the card, was also home in New Jersey injured after knee surgery.

UPDATE: Early Saturday morning, Arquette provided an update on his well being and he seems OK. He wrote on Twitter that he was “stitched up.”

Turns out Death Matches aren’t my thing — David Arquette (@DavidArquette) November 17, 2018