10 Things We Learned From You Cannot Kill David Arquette
8. The Murky World Of Backyard Wrestling
An early attempt at getting on the card of one of Brian Knobbs' Legends of Wrestling shows ends in violent rejection for Arquette, whose crew scuffles with the Nasty Boys' blonde half. David wasn't ready, though a new opportunity emerges soon after: promoter Chris Harris offers him not only a table at a signing session, but a match for "one of the biggest promotions on the East Coast."
It was not one of the biggest promotions on the East Coast.
Arquette got duped. The promoter laughs about it afterwards, admitting he'd lied and gassed David up for an unpaid, unsafe deathmatch spot, though the 48-year-old takes it well. Tangling with, ahem, 'The Extreme Nightmare' Corey Jacobs only drives him on.
The scene is wild, as Arquette prances out in full 'Magic Man' garb, throwing streamers and doing carnival tricks. In a ring we watched fall apart minutes prior, before a crowd comprised exclusively of backyarders and crew members, Arquette is beaten up and busted open, his body ravaged by light tubes and sloppy, unrefined moves. Afterwards, a man worth an estimated $25 million is forced to wash the blood away in the promoter's bathroom.
A cold, hard dose of reality for David, whose previous match played out to a Monday Night RAW crowd of 6,500 in 2010.