[12] Gangstas' feud with Eliminators, Samoan Gangsta Party and The Bruise Brothers led to a four-way dance between the four teams at The Doctor Is In, which Gangstas won to capture their first World Tag Team Championship. In other words, the Gangstas had been rough-and-tumble, but they werent yet extreme. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much He also featured on Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring and the 1999 documentary Beyond the Mat. He worked as a bounty hunter, chasing down individuals who had skipped bail, and occasionally used the legitimate practice of catching fugitives as cover for his other part-time hustle: transporting cocaine intended for resale. In the last 30 years, hundreds of pro-wrestlers have died under the age of 45, most of them due to the physical trauma they've put their bodies through or the dependence on . Qualified Yoga teacher; RYT 200 hr. Blaustein interviews a wide variety of wrestling personalities and ascertains their motivations. Rotten missed the show and was replaced with "Mass Transit" Eric Kulas, an untrained seventeen-year-old who convinced booker Paul Heyman that he was twenty-one and had been trained by the veteran Killer Kowalski. What he did consisted of taking a scalpel attached to a stick and dragging it across Kulass forehead, gutt[ing] him across his forehead blood was already flying out of his forehead like a balloon had burst. Then, after pummeling the debilitated wrestler to the crescendoing jeers of his father and the rest of the crowd, New Jack ascended the top rope with a chair in hand, jumping off and dropping the chairhis signature 187 finisheron Kulass forehead. Even the Funker's family got ribbed as his girls even thought he was serious about finally hanging up the tights. In the video game ECW Anarchy Rulz, New Jack's theme song was rerecorded by Bootsy Collins with unique lyrics, unlike every other character's theme, which consisted of cover versions of their real themes. [25], In 2016, Stamp announced that his cancer had returned. New Jack is referenced in the 1996 Weezer single "El Scorcho", with the line "watchin' Grunge legdrop New Jack through a press table". [59][60], Young was critical of Paul Heyman as a promoter, primarily due to Heyman's penchant for lying to his roster, as well as for cheating them out of paychecks. [40] Jack was named the number one contender for Rhino's World Television Championship at November to Remember, where he failed to win the title. As the epilogue of the film mentioned, Funk's retirement lasted three months. The point of that was to ensure the Black fan base didnt inadvertently turn the Gangstas into good guys, because Cornette had no interest in that. The matchif you can even call it oneconsisted of Lane throwing a few stiff punches at New Jack, who then pulled out what he called a Wolverine-type claw and began stabbing his opponent. [21] Mustafa Saed left ECW after the title win, leading to the dissolution of Gangstas. He attended a dozen schools before finally graduating from D.M. [64] One of his sons, a drag queen named Washington Heights, revealed in 2020 that Young had disowned him a few years earlier due to being a drag queen. He had aspirations of becoming a physical education teacher, and attended a tryout with the Atlanta Falcons. New Jack snorted another eight ball of cocaine, then began thinking about all the ways I could hurt this guy take him out forever.. December 30, 2021. New Jack was charged with aggravated assault stemming from the incident, but was acquitted, because Kulas had asked New Jack to cut him. After being tossed off the top of a cage by The Undertaker during their infamous Hell In A Cell. On June 11, 2016, New Jack was set to face former UFC star Phil Baroni in an unsanctioned match at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate event at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. [16] Kulas requested that New Jack "blade" him during the match, but the incision was made incorrectly, causing excessive bleeding. Funk went on to participate in several more retirement matches, the most recent on September 22, 2017, at age 73. The following month, at Hardcore Heaven, Dudley Boyz were returned the championship, forfeited by Saed's departure. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) pro wrestler Jerome New Jack Young has died at 58, his wife, Jennifer Young, confirmed on Facebook. That year he also refereed a main event for Scottish Wrestling Entertainment. Jerome Young (January 3, 1963 - May 14, 2021) was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name New Jack. [27] Jack then lost to Bam Bam Bigelow at Wrestlepalooza. Young trained under Ray Candy and debuted in 1992 in the Memphis, Tennessee-based United States Wrestling Association (USWA), where he adopted the ring name New Jack, inspired by the 1991 film New Jack City. New Jack: I ain't a forty-hour motherf***er, man. Public Enemy departed ECW after the event, thus ending the rivalry. But behind-the-scenes, it's a whole different story. 1 h 42 min. The story, like Erich Kulass before it, had a few additional twists and turns. Overall, I must say I am disappointed. Plus AEW Adds Saturday Night Show. That future wouldnt come to pass. [15][16] In May 2008, Jim Ross reported that, "Jake Roberts has been doing well the past few weeks, after completing a treatment program. [18][19] This is documented in the film The Resurrection of Jake the Snake. [23] He is currently signed with All Elite Wrestling. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. [19] Kulas died on May 12, 2002, at the age of 22 due to complications from gastric bypass surgery. Two less we got to worry about!, But New Jacks visceral critique didnt stop there. Stings Role in AEW Vs. WWE, Middle Riddles Return, and Troys a Real Heel, The Stakes for Jake Paul Vs. Nate Diaz, Predicting Israel Adesanyas Next Fight, and Arnold Allens Big Test, Jeff Hardy Returns, Plus Trish Stratus Turns Heel, Roman Reignss Title Run Is on a Different Level (Featuring Stat Guy Greg), How American Cities Can Avoid the Urban Doom Loop, The Heartbreaking Ralph Yarl Situation and the Ghost of Freakniks Past, Ashy Gets His Ton, a World XV and Prem Top Four Heats Up. I told everyone how Medgar Evers wasnt my role model. In October, New Jack made an appearance at the Crushed 2 wrestling event in Minneapolis, where he interfered in a match between Eugene and Tommy Lee Curtis. The film focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers outside of the ring, primarily Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts, as well as some aspiring wrestlers. He is also a New York Times best-selling novelist. [24], In 2014, Dennis Stamp published a book about his wrestling days titled The Stamp Collection: A Collection of Short Stories from the World's Most Famous Unknown Wrestler. Uncover their secrets and their nightmares. New Jack knew he had only a few more earning years left. New Jack - one of ECW's most popular antiheroes - held the sport's World Tag Team Championships several times. We see a guy with no real discernible skills other than being a big strong idiot who can puke on command, The Droz, follow the path many a former professional football player has followed into the WWF (former Canadian Football player The Rock, for example) only to end up quadriplegic. They defeated Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney) and Dudley Boyz in a three-way dance at Fright Fight and received a rematch for the title against FBI, the Freaks and Dudleys in a four-way dance at November to Remember, but lost. He then told the crowd he hoped Kulas bled to death. [63], Young was married to Jennifer Young. They thrived off New Jack's hot promos and pushed buttons related to the OJ. [52] New Jack was featured in the 1999 wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. It's not supposed to be real. Go . Though New Jack achieved a measure of success in Memphis, briefly holding the territorys tag titles with Frear, he grew to detest Lawler after claiming to overhear the King use a racial epithet to refer to future WWE Hall of Famer Jacqueline during a mud-wrestling matchanimosity that lingered into 2018 when New Jack posted on Twitter that he hoped Lawler would soon follow his recently-deceased son Brian Christopher, whom he also disliked. In an interview for Vice in 2019, Jack stated "the more they called me a nigger, the angrier I got and the more I beat the guy up. At Fight the Power, Samoan Gangstas Party (L.A. [2] Four weeks after the match, Blaustein was haunted by seeing Foley's family reaction to the Royal Rumble match. Its consensus reads: "Even if you aren't a fan, Beyond the Mat provides a riveting, perceptive look into the world of professional wrestling by taking a closer look at the people beneath the personas. But New Jack took that form of extracurricular combat to an 11, leaping from the arena balcony onto D-Von, who was strapped to a table. Professional wrestler Jerome Young, best known as New Jack. His vision continued to worsen, and heart problemswhich had killed his fatherbecame impossible to ignore. Director Van M. Pham Writer Erik Martinez Stars John Wynn Mark Hapka Sara Fletcher See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist Videos 2 Trailer 2:04 [55] The hour-long episode debuted on Vice on March 31, 2020. [17], Gangstas lost the World Tag Team Championship back to Eliminators on the January 4, 1997, episode of Hardcore TV, ending their reign at 139 days. Blaustein also revealed that after the first viewing, it was Linda McMahon who was more upset than Vince, due to the documentary's portrayal of the company, and a lack of emphasis on the "fun" in professional wrestling. Movie Info. "[9] Likewise, Hulk Hogan expressed an interest in appearing in the next wrestling documentary should Blaustein make one.[9]. [54] New Jack is also the subject of an episode of the documentary series "Dark Side of the Ring". The story of Bad News Brown aka Bad News Allen aka Allen Coage. People cant force you to go that far what I did in wrestling was what I wanted to do, he wrote. 4,847 likes. Kulas, whose Mass Transit gimmick consisted of him wearing a bus drivers uniform, spoke to New Jack before the match, telling him what he wanted to do in the ring and requesting that the hardcore legend cut him so that he could bleed, or get color, during the contest. As the final maneuver of the match, Jack shocked Grimes with a taser before throwing him from the scaffold and sending him crashing to the ring 40 feet below; there were over twelve tables stacked on top of each other in the ring to break the fall, of which Grimes missed all but two and came within a foot of missing the ring completely, which could have killed him. Transition. Lastly, Roberts is a wrestler whose height of popularity was in the 1980s. [30] As a result, Jack began a rivalry with Mustafa, which culminated in a match between the two at Living Dangerously, which Jack won. The Kings Playoff Drought Is Over. [22], The departure of Mustafa Saed and Perry Saturn from ECW led New Jack to form a new tag team with former Eliminator John Kronus called The Gangstanators on August 21, 1997, by defeating The Dudley Boyz. It was some of the easiest money Id ever made, he recalled. 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