4,847 likes. [9] The film was later released on DVD, including extra footage and cast interviews. New Jack is referenced in the 1996 Weezer single "El Scorcho", with the line "watchin' Grunge legdrop New Jack through a press table". [30] As a result, Jack began a rivalry with Mustafa, which culminated in a match between the two at Living Dangerously, which Jack won. He attended various schools, before finally graduating from Atlanta's D.M. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) pro wrestler Jerome "New Jack" Young has died at 58, his wife, Jennifer Young, confirmed on Facebook. [22] He was announced as the second entrant of WWE's 2014 Hall of Fame Class. [27], In November 2017, Stamp was posthumously inducted into the Amarillo Pioneer Hall of Fame by the local Amarillo Pioneer newspaper.[28]. "[5], After viewing the film, McMahon removed all advertising for it from WWF broadcasts. From there, New Jack receded into wrestling history. Nothing came of either, but after New Jack dropped out of Clark, he wound up playing on a semipro football team, during which time a teammate training to become a pro wrestler introduced him to Ray Candy, who would also become New Jacks trainer. New Jack announced his retirement on XPW's A Cold Day To Hell in 2008 though he continued working independent shows. They fell off the scaffold, missed the tables that were supposed to absorb the force of their fall and landed on the concrete floor, with Grimes landing on New Jack's head. The movie focused on the darker side of ring featuring Terry Funk in the midst of one of his 800 retirements, Jake Roberts in the midst of one his 1250 benders, and Mick Foley in the midst of his "I Quit" match with the Rock and 763 unprotected chair shots to the head. 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. [39] Jack was out of action for the next few months. A Warner Bros. Jack was told "Gypsy Joe is as tough as leather", and Jack replied that he was not going to lose dollar value from this match and would not have a comedy or gimmick match- but that he would kill Joe in this match. New Jack knew he had only a few more earning years left. After ECW declared bankruptcy in April 2001, New Jack began wrestling on the independent circuit. The film was originally released in U.S. theaters in March 2000, and later on VHS and DVD. With the heart trouble I already had, I could feel myself getting close to the final bell, he wrote. Wrestling legend Jerome Young, who was known in the ring as New Jack Credit: Instagram @newjack147. 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. 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. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Beyond The Mat Unrated Director's Cut Trailer Matthew Gaudet 80 subscribers Subscribe 140 Share 42K views 6 years ago Show more Show more Beyond the Mat YouTube Movies Documentary 2000. [61] In 2012, Young criticized Abdullah The Butcher for using dirty blades on wrestlers and stating that Young was HIV positive. Plus, Embiid Destroys the Nets Margin of Error. The real theme ("Natural Born Killaz") could not be featured; copyright issues from their record labels wouldn't allow it. Transcend. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) tweeted Friday night, WWE extends its condolences to Youngs family and friends.. All Rights Reserved. Of course, while he couldnt be said to have had all his wits about him, he certainly wasnt the only one under the influence backstage at the timedrug use had gotten so bad in the ECW locker room that New Jack remembered wrestlers attempting to get high by shooting up with each others blood. There, New Jack continued to follow his pattern: mixing the use of weapons brought to the ring in a trashcan with suicide plunges, occasionally spicing things up with a fall through some flaming tables. Not really a Black mans typical pastime, but if he could mess around once in a while, I could too, New Jack wrote. This sort of thing was always starting and stopping in our place.. In 2013, Scott Hall joined Roberts' rehabilitative efforts by also moving into Page's home, which has been nicknamed the "accountability crib". I bad-mouthed Martin Luther King, he wrote, because unlike him, the Gangstas hit back. As the epilogue of the film mentioned, Funk's retirement lasted three months. on the May 21 NWA-TNA, New Jack and Shark Boy lost to Ron Killings and Don Harris in an Anarchy Alliance tag match. 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. 1 h 42 min. New Jack, the 52-year-old balcony-diving, weapons-wielding architect of pain, is retired and living with no regrets about the mayhem he caused by Tom Breihan on August 18, 2015 ne night in 1996, an 18-year-old kid named Erich Kulas walked into an Extreme Championship Wrestling show in Revere, Massachusetts, hoping to find work for the night. It had happened before, and I was pretty sure it would end soon, at least for the time being. [67], After retiring, Young regularly used prescribed painkillers to help with the pain from various injuries he sustained during his career. The Beyond the Mat DVD Menu. Jake's looking for publicity for himself, maybe. (441) 7.6 1 h 43 min 2000 R. Get a no-holds-barred look into the wild world of professional wrestling in Beyond the Mat. Foley retired from full-time competition in 2000, at age 34, due to health concerns related to his hardcore style of wrestling, as well as him and his wife Colette (who was featured in the film with their two older children) having two more children after the film was released. New Jack hurt you, and then you hurt him. "[66] Heights stated after Young's death that "he was proud of me.. The team debuted on television on the September 20 episode of Hardcore TV when Kronus earned a title shot at the ECW World Tag Team Championship by defeating the Dudleys and then Jack showed up as his tag team partner. 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. Best place to keep up with current talent and signings. [16] Kulas requested that New Jack "blade" him during the match, but the incision was made incorrectly, causing excessive bleeding. On the April 16 NWA-TNA, New Jack and The Sandman lost to Brian Lee and Slash. [23] He is currently signed with All Elite Wrestling. [16][17][18] The Gangstas were scheduled to face D-Von Dudley and Axl Rotten. [10], Gangstas began pursuing the ECW World Tag Team Championship and entered into a rivalry with the tag team champions The Eliminators (John Kronus and Perry Saturn) and received several title shots against Eliminators but came up short. During the match, Lane, to New Jack's surprise began punching him in the face legitimately and landed a few blows. The Eagles quarterback is the NFLs new highest-paid player. "[11], Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly rated the film a B, stating that "Beyond the Mat is entirely dependent on, and shaped by, the good stuff the director happens to get, rather than driven by hard questions a journalist might want answered. In the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore and the 2020 episode of Dark Side of the Ring centred around him, Jack claimed that this was a break from the script, and his intentions were to throw Grimes so hard that he would fall head-first onto the steel turnbuckle and be killed. on the May 7 NWA-TNA, New Jack competed in a 3-way hardcore rules match which was won by Sabu. At WrestleCon 2013, Roberts announced his desire to return to WWE as a participant in Royal Rumble 2014, which did not happen. From there, it was off to the races in a months-long feud with the Rock n Roll Express that saw New Jack cutting some of his greatest promos. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) pro wrestler Jerome New Jack Young has died at 58, his wife, Jennifer Young, confirmed on Facebook. This by itself was nothing new, dating back to Jerry Lawler and Wayne Honky Tonk Man Farriss Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl in 1979 and already part of many ECW matches. But by 2000, the end loomed for ECW. Transition. There, across a six-year span ending with ECWs bankruptcy in 2001, New Jack pioneered a style of wrestling emphasizing violence and pain that, paradoxically, also made the self-evident fakery of the sport even clearer: He hit people with weapons, allowed opponents to hit him with weapons, and fell from increasingly greater heights, inflicting serious damage that at times looked like it should be fatal but never was. At a 1996 match in Massachusetts, the Gangstas faced longtime foe D-Von Dudley and Erich Mass Transit Kulas, a 17-year-old, 350-pound wrestler who had scored a booking by lying to Heyman about being 21 years old and having been trained by Killer Kowalski (a grainy VHS tape that showed Kulas manhandling a pair of little-person wrestlers lent a bit of credibility to those false claims). Download Watch Now. A Member Of The STANDS4 Network. That changed for good in mid-1995, when they left Smoky Mountain to join Paul Heymans Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion. Offering 1-2-1, group & corpor If he had decided to tell a promoter he didnt want to jump off a balcony or further scarify his forehead, things could have been different. Jerome Young, known to wrestling fans around the world as New Jack, died last week at age 58. His early childhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, took place against the backdrop of daily shouting matches and physical altercations between his parents. Blaustein decided to show Foley and his wife the footage he captured at the event. [1][5], Jake Roberts has stated that he was informed the film would be used to help children, but that never transpired. "[17] In 2012, Roberts moved in with fellow wrestler Diamond Dallas Page to receive help with getting his life back on track. It was some of the easiest money Id ever made, he recalled. Beyond the Mat At first, this behind-the-scenes documentary about professional wrestling seems as if it will be an unabashed fan's whitewash of the increasingly bizarre and popular world of "sports entertainment," as it is known. [52] New Jack was featured in the 1999 wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. If Id let [Gypsy Joe] kick my ass, Id have looked like an idiot, he wrote. Even though the Gangstas would go on to lose the match, Heyman recognized that the die had been cast, with New Jack recalling the promoter telling him that youre out there doing that diving shit so much, they dont even remember the finish., And those dives would become a significant part of New Jacks oeuvre, even if he felt increasingly ambivalent about their impact as time passed. 461 likes. Finally, they look at Mick Foley AKA Mankind, Dude Love, Cactus Jack and show how he's this normal family man and while his family knows it's for show, how much they worry. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. The real problem here, as had been the case with wrestlers Chad Austin and Eric Kulas before him, was that Gypsy Joe approached New Jack in his wizened, enfeebled state and told the younger wrestler how he expected the match to go, adding that New Jack could learn a thing or two from him. Despite this, a police officer who was recording the incident stated that it looked like it went "past a routine wrestling match." Plus AEW Adds Saturday Night Show. His father died of a heart attack later in the year. Jennifer Young wrote Friday, For all the outpouring of love from family, friends, and fans- Im totally blown away. He appeared at Heat Wave where he appeared on crutches and Angel stapled him with his staple gun in the forehead until Nova and Chris Chetti made the save and defeated Da Baldies in a tag team match. From visionary filmmaker Lana Wachowski comes 'The Matrix Resurrections,' the long-awaited fourth film in the groundbreaking franchise that redefined a genre. [4] Around the age of fifteen, Young and his friends began robbing local stores, such as gas stations, sporting goods stores, and jewellery stores. . Young's wife, Jennifer,. [citation needed], New Jack's feud with The Dudley Boyz continued in 1999 as he teamed with Spike Dudley to lose to them at Guilty as Charged. 14, 7:30 pm CT) Robert Anthony vs. Mance Warner; Levi Everett vs. Mike Hartenbower (Fans Bring the Weapons Match) People cant force you to go that far what I did in wrestling was what I wanted to do, he wrote. Therrell, Young had a measure of success on the gridiron, backing up future Georgia Tech starter Darrell Norton on offense and starting on defense. [11] Gangstas then faced Samoan Gangstas Party in a match at Heat Wave which ended in a brawl between both teams. AAW Ring of Fire (Apr. Step or Stomp? What do the injuries to Giannis Antetokounmpo and Ja Morant mean for the first round? His time in NWA TNA came to a rapid close because, in the words of Jeff Jarrett, the promotion was such a revolving door at the time, with wrestlers coming and going while the major story lines remained built around Double J. [3] He and his mother moved frequently across Georgia, usually trying to stay a step or two ahead of landlords seeking to evict them. [2], In June 1995, The Gangstas joined the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion, debuting for the promotion as a villainous team by attacking The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) at Barbed Wire, Hoodies and Chokeslams on June 17, 1995. [56][57] He is also referenced by Harlem rapper Smoke DZA on his album Rugby Thompson. Referees called off the match, and New Jack disappeared from the air for many months. [5] His original budget was $500,000, funded by the company Imagine. In June 2011, Blaustein undertook an extensive one-hour interview on Review a Wai with John Pollock, in which he discussed the problems of putting the documentary together with Vince McMahon's blessing. [21] Mustafa Saed left ECW after the title win, leading to the dissolution of Gangstas. On the April 2, 2003, NWA-TNA, New Jack, Perry Saturn and The Sandman defeated Christopher Daniels and The Harris Brothers. New Jack has claimed that he only stabbed Lane nine times. [citation needed], On the October 22 episode of ECW on TNN, Jack received his first opportunity for the World Heavyweight Championship against Mike Awesome but failed to win the title. In other words, the Gangstas had been rough-and-tumble, but they werent yet extreme. Running out with a garbage can full of weaponry, New Jack helped save Eugene from a beat down and did a diving splash through a table to pin Tommy Lee Curtis, although he was only interfering throughout the match and not being an actual competitor; this was billed as his last appearance in the Midwest.[48]. [2] Four weeks after the match, Blaustein was haunted by seeing Foley's family reaction to the Royal Rumble match. on the April 23 NWA-TNA, New Jack, Perry Saturn and The Sandman defeated Brian Lee, Slash and Mike Awesome in an Ultimate Sin match. 2. He had aspirations of becoming a physical education teacher, and attended a tryout with the Atlanta Falcons. In Joe's demonstration, he paused his legs at the ninety degree angle to the mat to avoid bringing the legs overhead with momentum. You can follow him on Twitter @MoustacheClubUS and read more of his work at www.oliverbateman.com. Lastly, Roberts is a wrestler whose height of popularity was in the 1980s. In arguably his most memorable SMW moment, he stood across from Bob Caudle, as old-school and soft-spoken as Southern wrestling announcers got, and sent a special shout-out to my homeboy O.J. [19] Kulas subsequently sued New Jack and ECW for damages in July 1998, but lost the case. The highlight of New Jacks XPW tenure, as he would explain in the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore and reaffirm in both his autobiography and the Vice Dark Side of the Ring episode about him, was that it gave him a chance to exact revenge on Vic Grimes for messing up the scaffold spot at Living Dangerously 2000. With all eight series underway, we examine ailing stars, the Cavaliers glaring weakness, Old Man LeBron, and more. Funk also appears with his friend, former wrestler Dennis Stamp, who is eager to work as a referee in Funk's upcoming "retirement" match. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. He then told the crowd he hoped Kulas bled to death. He remained with the company until the end of the summer. "A heartfelt documentary focusing on the day-to-day lives of professional wrestlers, some on the rise, some on the wane, and others fighting for their lives." If you haven't seen it, do it. [20] However, on January 6, 2014, Roberts returned on WWE television for the first time in almost nine years, as a part of Old School Raw at the end of the CM Punk vs Roman Reigns match, bringing out a new snake with him (an Albino Burmese Python) and aiding The New Age Outlaws and Punk in fending off The Shield. [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. [1] As a result, Lions Gate Films, the film's distributor, considered filing a lawsuit for restraint of trade. Five months later, he shot her in the leg when she tried to leave and take Young with her. 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. By the mid-1990s, wrestling had left its kayfabe days in the dust, with long-running story lines and in-ring theatrics taking center stage, but New Jacks propensity for legitimate, unpredictable violence remained as real, and really brutal, as the sport could get. Smooth and Sammy the Silk) made their ECW debut by attacking Gangstas. Says All-Star guard DeAaron Fox: "We want to be championship contenders year in and year out. [2] Although he was once one of the more famous wrestlers in America, performing in front of tens of thousands of fans, he is now wrestling in small-town venues. This was done, according to Jack, over a grudge based on Grimes not contacting him when he was recovering from his injuries after their fall in Danbury. [33] On the November 5 episode of ECW on TNN, Jack rescued Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks from an attack by Da Baldies (The Spanish Angel, Vito LoGrasso, Tony DeVito and Vic Grimes) but Angel stapled Jack in the eyes. 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