CZW's Nick Gage Speaks Out From Prison - Details

The Philadelphia Daily News has an interview with CZW's Nick Gage, who is currently in jail in Camden, NJ on $150,000 bail after allegedly robbing a bank.

Gage said that he doesn't blame the wrestling fans that turned him to in after seeing his picture in the news. He said he was out in plain sight, going to Atlantic City to play roulette after leaving the bank with around $3,000 in stolen money.

"I'm tough, that's just the way it is. I was built that way," Wilson, wearing a red prison jumpsuit, said yesterday morning in jail. "I'll be back. The king of ultraviolent wrestling will be back. I've just had some tough times in my life," he said. "Wrestling had nothing to do with it. I don't blame it for my drug use."

He lost both of his parents to cancer, but the death of his mother in 2007 deepened his addictions.

"She was my best friend. She was the person I confided in," he said.

Despite not having a place to live recently, Wilson said he made 'OK' money wrestling and hasn't had another job in at least six years. "I guess I didn't have enough for what I needed," he said.

He said he went to Atlantic City and played roulette with his girlfriend, but declined to elaborate. "I wasn't exactly laying low," he said.

Surveillance cameras at the bank captured a particularly clear close-up of Wilson, and the photos became the buzz on Internet wrestling forums, including the CZW. Police said the wrestling community came forward to identify Wilson and he surrendered on Dec. 31. "The wrestling community was absolutely instrumental in this case," Collingswood police Lt. Glenn Prince said.

Gage called himself basically a good guy that has issues with painkillers. Check out the article at https://www.philly.com/