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| Devon Nicholson | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 16, 1982 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Hannibal Hannibal Le Predateur Adam Lust Kid Nichols The Blood Hunter |
| Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) |
| Billed weight | 280 lb (127 kg) |
| Trained by | Bruce Hart Jacques Rougeau |
| Debut | July 2001 |
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Devon Nicholson (born October 16, 1982) is a Canadian professional wrestler, YouTube personality, professional wrestling promoter and interviewer who operates "THE HANNIBAL TV" YouTube channel. Better known under his former ring name Hannibal, Nicholson currently wrestles under the name the Blood Hunter. He was also known as Kid Nichols or Adam Lust earlier in his career.
Professional wrestling career
Devon Nicholson, from Orleans,[1] started his professional wrestling career in 2001.[2] He went on to wrestle in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom and the United States.[2]
In 2007, Nicholson started a professional wrestling company, which by 2017 was called Great North Wrestling.[2]
At a 2015 Great North Wrestling event, Nicholson wrestled as Hannibal “The Death Dealer", against Soa Amin, with suspected Canadian senator Patrick Brazeau as the special guest referee for the match.[3] After Nicholson won the match, he slammed Brazeau through a table.[3]
Hepatitis C issues
In 2009, WWE offered Nicholson a contract to join them,[2] but rescinded the offer within a month when they found out that Nicholson had hepatitis C.[4] According to Nicholson, from 2009 to 2012 he had taken interferon and ribavirin to treat the disease, but ended the treatment due to the side effects.[5]
In 2011, Nicholson sued Abdullah the Butcher (real name Lawrence Robert Shreve) in the Ontario Superior Court for negligence, assault, and battery, accusing Shreve of spreading hepatitis C to Nicholson in a May 2007 professional wrestling match.[6][7] Nicholson accused Shreve of taping a razor blade to Shreve's finger which cut both Shreve and Nicholson, passing the disease through their blood.[6] Nicholson also stated that he did not consent to being cut, and that Shreve had "prematurely ended" his professional wrestling career; he instead became a personal trainer in Ottawa at the Ray Friel complex.[6]
In December 2013, Nicholson announced that he was cured of Hepatitis C.[8] According to Nicholson, he received a recommendation in 2012 from fellow wrestler and hepatitis C sufferer Billy Graham to speak to his doctor, Hector Rodriguez-Luna, who recommended that Nicholson undergo experimental treatment with telaprevir, a drug commonly used to treat hepatitis C genotype 1, although Nicholson had hepatitis C genotype 2.[5] Nicholson said that 36 weeks of treatment cured him.[5]
On June 3, 2014, he won a $2.3 million lawsuit against Abdullah the Butcher in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, as the judge ruled that Abdullah the Butcher had spread hepatitis C to Nicholson in a May 2007 professional wrestling match.[4]
Referee stabbing incident
On December 11, 2021, at a World Class Pro Wrestling (WCPW) show, Nicholson repeatedly stabbed referee Lando Deltoro with a spike after a match, causing Deltoro to bleed profusely with a severed artery in his skull. According to Deltoro, he suffered hypovolemic shock and a panic attack from the blood loss. Deltoro required seven staples and emergency surgery for the injuries. According to Deltoro, the script for the post-match event was that Nicholson would hit him with the spike, after which Deltoro would "go down, blade" himself with a razor to induce bleeding, "and then roll out and just wobble off". Deltoro suggested that the incident occurred because he "didn’t blade hard enough to [Nicholson's] liking".[9] Nicholson said that he could not see well as he was wearing a mask, and that he thought Deltoro's blood came from Deltoro blading.[10] Nicholson said that he thought he had used his hand to protect Deltoro from the spike, and also said that Deltoro never indicated that he was "legitimately hurt" or asked to stop. In response, Deltoro said that he could not talk because he was "starting to pass out" as Nicholson was kneeling on his back, choking him and stabbing him with the spike.[9]
WCPW referee Colby Cowperthwaite, who pulled Deltoro away from the attack, accused Nicholson of going "totally off the hinges", not listening to instructions, and hiding the spike; Cowperthwaite also described that "something was off" with Nicholson that night as he was not walking properly.[9] Cowperthwaite also accused Nicholson of hiding the spike from the police, so that Nicholson could claim that Deltoro had injured himself, instead of Nicholson injuring Deltoro. Fightful reported an anonymous source involved with the show stating that Nicholson "was hiding in his RV until it was time for his match, which he took five minutes to arrive to and smelled like booze". WCPW wrestler Clayton Bloodstone accused Nicholson of giving "zero fucks" regarding the incident. Other unnamed WCPW personnel accused WCPW management Kevin Sullivan and Eric Embry of covering up the incident to protect Nicholson; while Cowperthwaite said that Sullivan told him to "kayfabe the cops".[11][12]
On December 12, WCPW banned Nicholson from working with them again as a result of the incident, indicating that Nicholson "took something too far and someone could have lost their life because of it"; on December 13, Nicholson claimed that he had actually "quit" before he was banned, "to focus on running my own company in Canada for now".[9][10][13] Deltoro stated that Nicholson called him to request "forgiveness", which Deltoro gave, indicating that he wanted Nicholson to "get help" if he has "demons".[9] Deltoro made a police report but the police closed the case without any charges.[9]
References
- ↑ Dodge, Brier (June 21, 2014). "Hannibal's justice: wrestler training for comeback". DurhamRegion.com. Torstar. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Baines, Tim (November 9, 2017). "Local wrestler Hannibal hopes to make an Impact Friday night". Postmedia. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dawson, Tyler (June 2, 2020). "Brazeau's night as a pro wrestling referee ends with body slam — for him". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Ottawa wrestler wins $2.3M hepatitis lawsuit against Abdullah the Butcher". CBC News. June 5, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Experimental treatment cures Ottawa wrestler of hepatitis C". CBC News. January 14, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ireton, Julie (July 29, 2011). "Ottawa wrestler claims WWE legend gave him hep C". CBC News. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ Pearson, Craig (May 29, 2020). "Mad profile features former Windsorite in U.S. magazine". Windsor Star. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ "PWTorch.com - VIDEOS: Aries's Gamespot webisode, Credible's latest "Pro Wrestling 101," Nicholson says he's cured". pwtorch.com.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Rohrlich, Justin; McDougall, AJ (December 14, 2021). "'Haven't Seen That Much Blood Since Fallujah': Ref Mauled by Crazed Pro-Wrestler". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Reyes, Lorenzo (December 14, 2021). "World Class Pro Wrestling bans Devon Nicholson for stabbing stunt against referee Lando Deltoro gone awry". USA Today. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ↑ Nason, Josh (December 13, 2021). "Referee recovering from multiple head wounds inflicted by wrestler". f4wonline.com. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ↑ Sapp, Sean Ross (December 13, 2021). "Wrestler "Hannibal" Devon Nicholson Attacks Referee Causing Hospitalization". fightful.com. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ↑ Papuckoski, Spiro (December 14, 2021). "Canadian wrestler 'Blood Hunter' banned for stabbing ref's head with spike". Postmedia Network. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
External links
- Devon Nicholson's channel on YouTube
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- Devon Nicholson on IMDb
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