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John Wayne Murdoch

Murdoch in June 2025
Personal information
Born	(1988-08-20)August 20, 1988 (age 37)[2] Murfreesboro,Tennessee
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Damien Damien Payne John Wayne Murdoch
Billed height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Debut	2003

John Wayne Murdoch is an Americanprofessional wrestler. He is best known for his time inIWA Mid-South,Game Changer Wrestling (where he wrestled as a jobber for their students), and ICW No Holds Barred. He is a former ICW NHB American Deathmatch Champion, and a former GCW Tag Team Champion on two occasions, alongside Reed Bentley and Alex Colon. He is also a former GCW Ultraviolent Champion, and won the 2020 IWTV Independent Wrestler of the Year.^[3]

Murdoch wrestled most of his career inhardcore matches, sticking to thegimmick of an extreme wrestler.^[4] He competed in theCZW Tournament of Death 18 ofCombat Zone Wrestling, where he got defeated by Jimmy Lloyd in aShattered Dreams Panes Of Glass Death Match on June 22, 2019.^[5] He also competed in theCZW Tournament of Death 16, where he fell short toJimmy Havoc andRickey Shane Page in aPain in the Glass Match of a first-round on June 10, 2017.^[6] AtCZW Down With The Sickness 2016 on September 10, Murdoch competed in aneight-man tag team match where he teamed up with Dale Patricks, Reed Bentley and Josh Crane as TeamIWA Mid-South, falling short to The Nation Of Intoxication (Conor Claxton,Danny Havoc, Devon Moore and Lucky 13).^[7] Murdoch also competed forFull Impact Pro (FIP), making two appearances atFIP Fallout 2015 Tag Team Tournament, one of them on October 23, where he teamed up with Reed Bentley and Trik Davis to defeat Team Outlaw Wrestling (Bull Bronson, Devin Cutter and Mason Cutter) in asix-man tag team match of a first-round,^[8] and on October 24, teaming up with the same partners, falling short to The Viking War Party (Frank Wyatt, The American Viking andThe Little Viking) in a second-round match.^[9] AtBlackcraft No Apologies, an event promoted by Blackcraft Wrestling on April 5, 2019, Mudroch participated in a28-man battle royal where he competed against other superstars such as the winnerZicky Dice,Mance Warner,Swoggle and formerECW wrestlerJustin Credible.^[10]

Murdoch is known for his long-time tenure withIWA Mid-South, where he won theIWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship for the first time at the promotion's19th Anniversary Show from October 9, 2015, by defeating Shane Mercer.^[11] AtIWA Mid-South A Labor Of Love on August 31, 2018, Murdoch fell short to Aaron Williams andMichael Elgin in athree-way match for theIWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship.^[12] He competed atIWTV Family Reunion 2021 Part 1 event from April 8, 2021, where he defeatedJake Crist to win theIWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship for the sixth time.^[13] However, he later vacated the title on April 15, atIWA Mid-South Spring Fever 2021, after he won theIWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship by teaming up withJake Crist, with whom he was in a feud and defeating The PD Express (Logan James and Tyler Matrix).^[14]

• Evolution Pro Wrestling
  • EPW Openweight Championship (1 time)^[15]
  • Death Match Tournament (2014)
• Game Changer Wrestling
  • GCW Ultraviolent Championship (1 time)^[16]
  • GCW Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Reed Bentley (1) and Alex Colon (1)^[17]
  • GCW Nick Gage Invitational 7 Tournament (2022)
  • GCW Tournament Of Survival 9 (2024)
• Horror Slam Wrestling
  • Horror Slam Deathmatch Championship (1 time)^[18]
  • Horror Slam Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• ICW No Holds Barred
  • ICW American Deathmatch Championship (2 time, current)^[19]
• IWA Mid-South
  • IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (6 times)^[20]
  • IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship (2 times, current) - with Reed Bentley (1) andJake Crist (1)^[21]
  • King Of The Death Matches Tournament (2016)
  • Vic Philpott Memorial Hybrid Cup (2021)^[22]
• Coliseum Championship Wrestling
  • King Of The Coliseum Tournament (2015)
• Naptown All Pro
  • Midwest Territory Championship (1 time)
• National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Dante^[23]
• Paradigm Pro Wrestling
  • PPW Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Reed Bentley^[24]
• Primos Pro Wrestling
  • Slave to the Deathmatch 12 (2021)^[25]
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked No. 160 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in thePWI 500 in 2023^[26]
• Pro Wrestling Trainwreck
  • Southern Sickness Cup (2021)^[27]
• United States Wrestling Organization
  • USWO Heavyweight Championship (2 times)^[28]
  • USWO Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[29]
  • USWO Music City Championship (3 times)^[30]
  • USWO Tag Team Championship (6 times) - with LT Falk (1), The New York Gangster (1) and Josh Crow (4)^[31]
• Unsanctioned Pro
  • Unsanctioned Pro Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Reed Bentley^[32]
  • Unsanctioned Pro Hardcore Championship (1 time, current)
• Xtreme Championship Federation
  • XCF Destroyer Championship (1 time, current)
  • XCF Tag Team Championship (1 time, current, inaugural)– with Reed Bentley
  • XCF Tag Team Title Tournament (2024)– with Reed Bentley
• Vicious Outcast Wrestling
  • VOW Anarchy Championship (1 time)^[33]
• Other Accomplishments
  • Underground Uprising Tournament (2015)

• John Wayne Murdoch's profile atCagematch,Wrestlingdata,Internet Wrestling Database
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• John Wayne Murdoch atIMDb

• 1988 births
• American male professional wrestlers
• Living people
• 21st-century male professional wrestlers
• 21st-century American professional wrestlers
• GCW Ultraviolent Champions
• GCW Tag Team Champions

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