Electrified cage walls, cacti, tables, light tubes, glass, thumbtacks, baseball bats, barbed wire, fire and numerous other weapons and objects have been used in it.
The venue was the first sellout in the building since the era of ECW, and hundreds were turned away from the biggest show in the promotion's history.
NWA Southwest workers Joey Corman defeated Samir and Brad Michaels in a 3-Way Dance.
Acid won the match with the Yakuza Kick, but was put through a table by Big Japan's Winger, who then walked off with both belts.
[3] Inside the Cage of Death, were a jackhammer, a cactus, garbage cans, a truck hood, and tables; and was topped by a scaffold.
Justice Pain defeated Wifebeater to retain the CZW World Heavyweight Title as both men crashed through tables in the ring off of the scaffold that topped of the cage of death.
In a kayfabe angle, former ECW owner Tod Gordon, along with The Blue Meanie, Pitbull #1, Rockin' Rebel and Rocco Rock were in the ring, trashed CZW, with Gordon calling the fans "ingrates" for chanting CZW.
After they abused Justice Pain and Wifebeater, the CZW locker room crashed the cage, and the lights went out again.
At the end Sandman stripped off his ECW T-shirt for a CZW shirt and had a beer with John Zandig.
The main feud going into the Cage of Death match was between Team Zandig (John Zandig, Nick Gage, Ian Knoxx, Wifebeater, and Lobo) and the HI-V (The Messiah, Adam Flash, Nate Hatred, Trent Acid, Johnny Kashmere, and B-Boy).
The other match saw the battle of The H8 Club as Wifebeater and Justice Pain took on Nate Hatred and Nick Gage.
Wifebeater and Justice Pain won after Nick Gage turned on Nate Hatred by driving him through a pane of glass covered in salt and thumbtacks.
Cage Of Death VII took place on December 10, 2005, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the New Alhambra Arena, where H8 Club & John Zandig defeated The Tough Crazy Bastards (Necro Butcher and Toby Klein), and Joker.
This Cage of Death was the large eight-sided cage that surrounds the entire ringside area with a barbed-wire spider net set up on one side and glass set up on another side with tables underneath and two scaffold platforms across the ring from each other.
This show is also notable for an incident where a disrespectful fan was heard heckling during a ten bell salute for Eddie Guerrero who died less than a month prior to the event.
Cage of Death VIII took place on December 9, 2006, where in a Loser Must Retire Fans Bring the Weapons Cage of Death match, Nick Gage pinned John Zandig in a four way that also involved Lobo and LuFisto (in a last minute addition).
[12] The show opened with a surprise as old CZW favorite Ric Blade came back to the promotion for his first in-ring appearance since 2004, as the referee for the Junior Heavyweight Title Match.
[12][13] Ryan McBride defeated Pinkie Sanchez, IWS regular Dan Paysan, Insanity Pro Wrestling's Carter Gray, and All-American Wrestling/IWA Mid-South Wrestling's Egotistico Fantastico in what may well have been the hottest match of the night to become the new CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion.
[12][13] Post-match, John Zandig brought out Lobo, Nick Gage, and Wifebeater to the ring to join Ric Blade, and credited them for being the reason why CZW still existed.
Then New Alhambra Arena manager Roger Artigiani surprised Zandig by unveiling the 2008 New Alhambra Arena Hardcore Hall of Fame induction banner on the wall joining The Sandman,[12] Terry Funk,[12] Ted "Rocco Rock" Petty and Johnny Grunge as inductees.
[12][13] In a pleasant surprise, Sonjay Dutt plugged CZW after the match and suggested he might return as he could in 2009 (with everyone waiting for the expected heel swerve that for once wasn't forced on by a promoter).
Various toys used included a glass picture frame, a drum, a boat oar with thumb tacks, hand held plastic guitar,[12] and a knife.
In the middle of That platform was a vertical wall of glass which exploded after Devon Moore took a "Mother F'n Bomb" through it.
[12] Other sick spots saw Devon Moore doing a shooting star press onto all but Zandig, Sami Callihan hitting a senton off the scaffold/spidernet through a barbed wire table on Brain Damage, and Drake Younger Russian leg sweeping Danny Havoc off the side of the cage through a barbed wire board propped up by chairs.
After the match, Zandig stated that he was trying to prove that "his boys" had their Onita style "fighting spirit" back, and handed out the $10,000 to all five other competitors.
Special appearances by New Jack and Colt Cabana happened starting with New Jack putting over CZW and hyping his match against BLKOUT at Extreme Rising on December 29, and Colt Cabanas' first CZW appearance to challenge Greg Excellent.