New Jack (Wrestler)

Jerome Young
New Jack, 2004
Data
Surname	Jerome Young
Ring name	New Jack
height	183 cm
Fighting weight	109 kg
birth	January 3, 1963 Greensboro , North Carolina
Trained by	Ray Candy
debut	1992

Jerome Young (born January 3, 1963 in Greensboro , North Carolina ) is an American wrestler who became famous under his ring name New Jack, especially in the former ECW . Young is known for his fondness for daredevil jumps, the use of weapons, his brutal and unfair fighting style and the constant readiness to injure himself and especially opponents. His enema music, Natural Born Killaz by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube , was played in a loop several times during his matches. Young chose his ring name based on the gangster film New Jack City with Wesley Snipes and Ice-T .

Career

Young was trained by Ray Candy, who died in 1994, and made his debut in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in 1992 , also back then as New Jack. He then formed a tag team at Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) with Mustafa Saed and D-Lo Brown, The Gangstas . The team feuded with a number of other groups, including The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson).

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1995-2001)

New Jack in the ECW, 1998

In 1995, Young and Saed left SMW and joined the Philadelphia- based Promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). There they won the Tag Team Championship twice, but had to disband when Saed was fired in 1997. Young then formed a new tag team with John Kronus, The Gangstanators - a combination of The Gangstas and The Eliminators , the former tag team that Kronus had formed with Perry Saturn . Together they won the day team title once . At the same time, New Jack also began to bring a garbage can to every match that contained various weapons.

The "Mass Transit Incident"

New Jack was directly involved in the so-called "Mass Transit Incident", which 23 November 1996 at a house show in Revere, Massachusetts occurred. The Gangstas were originally supposed to meet D-Von Dudley and Axl Rotten. However, Rotten was unable to attend the show for reasons that remain unexplained (in the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore, New Jack speculates that he had heard that something had happened to Rotten's grandmother that prevented him from going to the show). Rotten was then replaced by a certain Eric Kulas, who called himself Mass Transit . This was a 17-year-old, completely inexperienced boy who was able to convince Paul Heyman , who was responsible at the time , that he was already 19 years old on the one hand and that he had been trained by the legend Killer Kowalski on the other . The result was that Kulas sustained immense injuries inflicted by New Jack with a blade for failing to follow the standard practice of blading . Kulas had to be sewn with a total of fifty stitches in the hospital, while New Jack was charged with dangerous bodily harm but acquitted in court. Kulas also lost the process for compensation for pain and suffering against the ECW. On May 12, 2002, Eric Kulas died at the age of only 22 due to complications after gastric bypass surgery. As a result, Young was sued again, this time by Kulas' parents, who blamed him for the fact that their son had suffered from depression and eating disorders since the incident.

August 1998-1999

In the late 1990s, New Jack found itself permanently in a bitter feud with New York tag team Da Baldies , especially with their leader The Spanish Angel. In the course of this, both parties repeatedly fought brutal battles in and out of the ring, which resulted, for example, in the fact that Angel New Jacks liked to use the staple gun brought into the ring against him and drove a staple needle into his eye. This injury forced Young to take a long break from which he returned in late 1999 without permanent damage. From then on he no longer wore the stapler on a chain around his neck, but a hand sickle.

The Danbury incident

On March 12, 2000 there was another scandal at the PPV Living Dangerously . After a regular match, Da Baldies and New Jack began storming the ring and attacking each other. Young and a member of the Baldies, Vic Grimes, eventually moved their fight to the back of the hall, where scaffolding about four and a half meters high had been set up. According to the plan, Young and Grimes were supposed to fall together from the scaffolding and crash through two tables set up below. Since Grimes refused to perform the stunt to the last and even asked his opponent to jump on the scaffolding alone, New Jack ultimately pulled him down with force. This was followed by an unplanned landing, so that Grimes, who then weighed a good 140 kilos, landed on Young's head, which led to a serious brain injury and a blind right eye.

XPW and Independent (2001-2004)

After the end of ECW, Young disappeared towards the independent leagues. From 2001 to 2002 he was under contract with XPW, in 2003 he had some appearances at TNA and CZW . In a fight at the (XPW) in 2002, New Jack and Vic Grimes met again. New Jack threw Grimes straight into the ring from a scaffolding that was nearly nine feet high this time. There were twelve tables set up, which Grimes missed except for two, which, in addition to the collision of his left leg with the top ring rope, probably saved his life. In Forever Hardcore , Young admitted to deliberately throwing his opponent too hard to seriously injure or even kill him. On the other hand, video recordings also confirm that Grimes also pushed himself off the scaffolding, which was one of the main reasons for the unsuccessful maneuver.

In 2005 Young also took part in the ECW reunion shows Hardcore Homecoming and Extreme Reunion .

In April 2003, New Jack was again the executive part of a scandal, this time in a match against the experienced hardcore wrestler Gilberto Melendez aka Gypsy Joe. He did everything possible against playing a real fight to the audience, and Young would have had to take a real headbutt. As a result, New Jack actually injured his opponent with numerous weapons, including a nail-wrapped baseball bat and a chain.

In October 2004, Young joined the Thunder Wrestling Federation in a match against William Jason Lane. During the match, Young pulled a metal blade from his military vest and stabbed it fourteen times. This earned him various charges, including dangerous bodily harm and attempted murder. According to New Jack, both wrestlers had agreed to use the blade before the match. A police officer present at the fight said, however, that what he would have seen would have been beyond what he would consider a routine wrestling match. The event's promoter, Maurice Williams, said he never intended to turn it into a hardcore event.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2003, 2004, 2010)

Between 2003 and 2004, New Jack appeared sporadically on TNA shows.

In August 2010, New Jack and his old partner Mustafa attacked Team 3D and former ECW commentator Joel Gertner as part of an ECW reunion at TNA.

Ring Warriors (2013-2014)

On September 8, 2013 Young had his debut match in the independent league Ring Warriors . Two weeks later he became the new manager of Frank Stone and Kory Chavis.

Temporary retirement

On April 5, 2013, New Jack defeated Necro Butcher at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate event in his farewell match and retired.

Return to professional wrestling

In 2016, New Jack returned to the ring. He made appearances for Money Mark Productions and competed against former UFC fighter Phil Baroni on June 11th at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate event in New Jersey .

media

In the video game ECW Anarchy Rulz , New Jack was a playable character. He can also be seen in several wrestling documentaries, including Beyond the Mat .

He also contributed various lines for the album Duckman for Presidente by indie rapper Duckman .

Together with independent wrestler Jay Lover, Young appeared on The Daily Show in 2013 with the segment "Stay Out Of School".

successes

title

• Extreme Championship Wrestling
  • 3 × ECW World Tag Team Champion (2 × with Mustafa Saed, 1 × with John Kronus)
• North Georgia Wrestling Association
  • 1 × NGWA Heavyweight Champion
  • 2 × NGWA Tag Team Champion (with Festus and Mustafa Saed)
• Smoky Mountain Wrestling
  • 1 × SMW Tag Team Champion (with Mustafa Saed)
• United States Wrestling Association
  • 1 × USWA World Tag Team Champion (with Mark Freer alias Home Boy)

Awards

• Legends Pro Wrestling
  • XWF / LPW Hall of Fame Entry (2008)
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • # 386 of 500 top wrestlers of 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scott Williams: Hardcore History . Sports Publishing LLC, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59670-021-5 , pp. 106-111.
2. ↑ Thom Loverro: The Rise and Fall of ECW . Pocket Books , 2006, ISBN 978-1-4165-1058-1 , pp. 175-180.
3. ↑ Shaun Assael, Mike Mooneyham: Sex, Lies, and Headlocks . Crown Publishers, 2002, ISBN 978-0-609-60690-2 , pp. 199-200.
4. ↑ The Danbury Fall , wrestlinggonewrong.com, accessed June 11, 2016.
5. ↑ New Jack accused of stabbing opponent 14 times . Slam.canoe.ca. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
6. ↑ James Caldwell: Caldwell's TNA Hardcore Justice PPV results 8/8: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of ECW-themed PPV headlined by RVD vs. Sabu . In: Pro Wrestling Torch . August 8, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
7. ^ In Your Head - Wrestling Radio Show . Inyourheadonline.com. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
8. ↑ http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-may-9-2013/stay-out-of-school
9. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will: Wrestling Title Histories , 4th. Edition, Archeus Communications, 2000, ISBN 0-9698161-5-4 .