1. New Jack is known for being the only wrestler to have had his entrance music play throughout his matches in ECW.
38 Facts About New Jack
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New Jack's father died of a heart attack later in the year.
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Young trained under Ray Candy and debuted in 1992 in the Memphis, Tennessee-based United States Wrestling Association, where he adopted the ring name "New Jack", inspired by the 1991 film New Jack City.
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New Jack remained with the company until the end of the summer.
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New Jack earned his name working for Jim Cornette in Smoky Mountain Wrestling.
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New Jack toured the south and was normally squared off against Southern babyface tag team the Rock 'n' Roll Express.
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At CyberSlam Gangstas were scheduled to compete in a match against The Headhunters but Jack was imprisoned in Atlanta and Mustafa was attacked by The Headhunters.
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New Jack was involved in the Mass Transit Incident on November 23,1996, in Revere, Massachusetts.
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New Jack was charged with aggravated assault stemming from the incident, but was acquitted, because Kulas had asked New Jack to cut him.
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New Jack began emerging as a singles competitor while feuding with Dudley Boyz.
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New Jack began dragging in a garbage can full of weapons and throwing it into the ring as a sort of ultra-violent trash bag.
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At CyberSlam, New Jack teamed with Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks, losing an Ultimate Jeopardy match to Mustafa and the Dudleys.
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New Jack was out of action for the next few months until he returned to ECW at Heat Wave, where he attacked Dudley Boyz with weapons from a shopping cart.
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Referees called off the match, and New Jack disappeared from the air for many months.
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New Jack returned by the end of 1999 with his eye seemingly recovered, now sporting a scythe around his neck, claiming that he had "upgraded" the staple gun.
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At the 2000 Guilty as Charged pay-per-view, New Jack lost a singles match to Angel due to interference by Da Baldies.
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New Jack suffered brain damage, a broken leg, a skull fracture and was permanently blinded in his right eye, and spent six months recovering, but even while injured Jack defeated Da Baldies leader Angel in a match two months later at Hardcore Heaven.
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New Jack 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.
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New Jack remained with the promotion which was closed due to bankruptcy a month later in January 2001.
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In 2001 and 2002, he wrestled for XPW, and in 2003, he made multiple appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Combat Zone Wrestling, competing in Cage of Death V In 2004, Jack appeared in IWA and WWE in dark matches.
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New Jack worked the ECW reunion show, Hardcore Homecoming, on June 10,2005, as well as competing on the "Extreme Reunion" tour from September 15 to 16.
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In February 2002, New Jack met Vic Grimes in a scaffold match at XPW's Freefall event.
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New Jack was told "Gypsy Joe is as tough as leather", and New 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.
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New Jack then got angry with Joe and decided to get genuine sells by legitimately attacking the 69-year-old man with a chain, a framed picture of his aunt, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, and several other weapons.
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The crowd, horrified by New Jack's savage beating of this man either left the show in disgust or started calling New Jack the N-word.
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In October 2004, New Jack, wrestling for Thunder Wrestling Federation, was scheduled to fight fellow wrestler William Jason Lane at an event near Jacksonville, Florida.
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New Jack then pulled out a metal blade from his camouflage wrestling attire, and stabbed Lane multiple times in the head.
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New Jack stated in the Vice documentary series Dark Side of the Ring that the news stated he stabbed Lane 16 times but New Jack stated it was 9 because he counted.
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New Jack claimed that the two met prior to the match and agreed to use a "piece of metal" to inflict injury.
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New Jack announced his retirement on XPW's A Cold Day to Hell in 2008 though he continued working independent shows.
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In 2012, New Jack competed for Extreme Rising and CZW.
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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.
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New Jack was featured in the 1999 wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat.
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New Jack was featured in the video games Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood and WWE 2K25.
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New Jack is the subject of an episode of the documentary series Dark Side of the Ring.
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New Jack is referenced in the 1996 Weezer single "El Scorcho", with the line "watchin' Grunge legdrop New Jack through a press table".
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New Jack is referenced by Harlem rapper Smoke DZA on his album Rugby Thompson.
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New Jack was diagnosed with blood clots in his legs and back, in addition to heart problems.