

Ever wonder what happens when entertainment becomes self-destruction? These wrestlers bleed for your applause.
Hardway is an in depth dive into the North American Deathmatch Wrestling Scene. You will get to see a rare glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of those who put their bodies on the line to entertain the fans. Viewers witness first hand the bloody aftermath of some of the bloodiest matches in Deathmatch wrestling's history. Hardway is a Documentary film that takes a raw unfiltered look into the world of North American Deathmatch wrestling. Includes rare never before scene interviews and footage.
Direction
Waldridge gets uncomfortably close to real pain.
Production
Raw footage feels illegally intimate.
Director
Jeff Waldridge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nick Gage would later become the first deathmatch wrestler to headline a major U.S. arena in decades, making this documentary accidentally prophetic.
The film captures the scene just before streaming transformed underground wrestling from tape-trading secrecy to viral TikTok content.
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