| New Jack |
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| New Jack
Height: 6'0" Weight: 225 lbs. Real name: Jerome Young Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia Pro debut: 1992 Finishing move: 187 (Top Rope Elbow Drop While Holding A Steel Chair Beneath The Arm), Balcony Dive (Flying splash from an extremely elevated position) Other aliases: "The Original Gangsta" Career highlights: ECW World Tag Team Champion (3), NGWA Heavyweight Champion, NGWA Tag Team Champion (w/Mustafa Saed), SMW Tag Team Champion (w/Mustafa Saed), USWA Tag Team Champion (w/Home Boy) Trained by: Ray Candy Young claims he was a bounty hunter before he became a professional wrestler. He also claims to have committed four justifiable homicides in the line of duty. The only available evidence to these claims was stated by himself in interviews. It should also be noted that Atlanta police have no records of any of the homicides New Jack claims to have commited. Young trained under Ray Candy and debuted in 1993 in the Memphis, Tennessee-based United States Wrestling Association, where he adopted the name New Jack. He went on to form a tag team named The Gangstas with Mustafa Saed in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. The Gangstas took part in several controversial angles, on one occasion using affirmative action to enable them to win matches with a two count, not the conventional three count. They engaged in a long feud with the Rock 'N Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson). In 1995, The Gangstas left SMW and joined the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion. They won the ECW Tag Team Championships twice before Saed left the company in 1997. New Jack then formed a new tag team with John Kronus known as The Gangstanators, and went on to win a third ECW Tag Team Championship. New Jack was involved in the Mass Transit Incident on November 23, 1996 in Revere, Massachusetts. The Gangstas were scheduled to face D-Von Dudley and Axl Rotten, but Rotten had missed the event. For whatever reason, Axl Rotten could not make it to the show (In the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore, New Jack said he thinks something happened with Axl's grandmother, which forced Axl to not make it). Rotten was replaced with "Mass Transit" Erich Kulas; an obese, untrained seventeen-year-old who convinced booker Paul Heyman that he was nineteen and had been trained by the veteran Killer Kowalski. In the course of the match, New Jack attempted to blade Kulas, but inadvertedly cut through an artery, causing him to begin bleeding profusely. Kulas was hospitalised as a result, eventually receiving fifty stitches. New Jack was charged with aggravated assault stemming from the incident, but was acquitted. Kulas subsequently sued New Jack and ECW for damages in July 1998, but lost the case. He died in 2002 of unrelated causes. On March 13, 2000, New Jack suffered brain damage and was permanently blinded in his right eye when he and his opponent, Vic Grimes, fell off a scaffold, missed the tables that were supposed to absorb the force of their fall, and landed on the floor (with Grimes landing on New Jack's head) at ECW Living Dangerously 2000. In an XPW rematch shortly after ECW went out of business, New Jack threw Vic Grimes off the scaffolding, and Grimes plummeted forty feet into the ring. The stunt did not work out as planned, as Grimes did not go through all twelve tables that were intended to break his fall and ended up dislocating his ankle on a rope. In the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore, New Jack claimed that he had intentionally thrown Grimes too hard in the hopes that he would hit the ringpost and for Grimes to be injured or die. Also in the interview he blamed Grimes for his head trauma and blindness in his right eye for pulling away before the fall causing him to come down afterwards on his head instead of body to body. After ECW declared bankruptcy in April 2001, New Jack began wrestling on the independent circuit. In 2002, he wrestled for Xtreme Pro Wrestling, and in 2003, he made multiple appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. On October 9, 2004 he was arrested following a match in Jacksonville, Florida in which he repeatedly stabbed his opponent (the charges were later dropped after the victim insisted that the stabbing was planned). New Jack appeared at the ECW reunion show, Hardcore Homecoming, on June 10, 2005, and was allegedly scheduled to appear at ECW One Night Stand 2005 two days later, but was prevented from entering the state of New York due to an outstanding warrant. |