The Wrestlemania Thread - 'It's Real Damn It!'

[MrBarlow]

Another New Jack infamous match was with Vic Grimes at Extreme Championship Wrestling.

During Living Dangerously, Vic and Jack were out by the crowd and were to suplex onto tables 20 feet below but Vic didnt want to do it. Jack insisted on doing the fall which led to both men landing through the tables, however Vic landed on Jack which he suffered a cracked skull, brain fluid leaking from his ears and partial blindness on his right eye.

A year later Vic and Jack reignited their feud which left to a scaffolding match, Vic unaware that Jack wants revenge. Tables were stacked up in the ring and both men went to the top, Jack tasered Vic and launched him off the scaffolding 40 feet up. Vic missed all but two tables and hit the ring ropes. Jack said he wanted him (Vic) to hit the floor he just didn't throw him hard enough. Luckily Vic's worst injury was a dislocated ankle.

[Susan Foreman]

...And, of course, the stabbing which happened during at match with Hunter Red in Florida in 2004

The promoter of the show, a man named MWW, says that Hunter Red wanted a match with New Jack as it could make him famous, but got agitated during their pre-match talk and stormed off. MWW says, “something was troubling Red. The actual reality of wrestling New Jack, I think that kind of set in.”

At the start of the match, Red punched New Jack in the nose as hard as he can. New Jack responded by pulling a knife from his pocket and stabbing him.

The media reported it as sixteen, but New Jack claims he stabbed him nine times. As Jim Cornette said: "This is not something that does the public image of professional wrestling a world of good."

New Jack was arrested and was facing jail time. However, Red Hunter came to visit him in prison and said that he would drop the charges if New Jack would go on the road with him and turn the whole thing into an angle. New Jack agreed, but when the charges were dropped fled Florida and never spoke to him again.

Not forgetting the Gypsy Joe match. In April 2003, a 69-year-old Joe faced New Jack in an infamous hardcore match before a small crowd. Due to Joe's no-selling throughout the match and headbutting New Jack hard on the nose, New Jack legitimately attacked Joe with a chain, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, and several other weapons. With audience members angrily cursing Jack, and calling him a nig*er, the match ended in a chaotic no-contest. New Jack was then arrested and charged with assault with a weapon.

Like I said - a certifiable psycho!

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

The third series of 'Dark Side Of The Ring' starts on May 6th on VICE TV with a 2-hour premiere episode on the loose cannon Brian F’N Pillman

Other topics confirmed for this series are

• The Plane Ride From Hell
• FMW (Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling)
• XPW (Xtreme Pro Wrestling)
• Nick Gage
• WCW / NJPW Collision In Korea event from 1995
• The Smith Family (Grizzly Smith and his children – Sam Houston, Rockin’ Robin, WWE Hall of Famer Jake Roberts)
• Ion Croitoru (aka Bruiser Bedlam and Johnny K-9)
• Chris Kanyon
• 'The Dynamite Kid' Tom Billington.

The next series will also feature:
Ultimate Warrior
Steroid Trials
Luna Vachon

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

The next series will also feature:
Ultimate Warrior
Steroid Trials
Luna Vachon

Steroid trial will be interesting to watch and see who helped Vince escape prison time.

[Susan Foreman]

The main event for WrestleMania 38 has been leaked

[Susan Foreman]

The Sumo Monster Truck match (?) on top of the Cobo Arena in Detroit for the WCW Title between Hogan and The Giant from WCW Halloween Havoc 1995

[MrBarlow]

Bret Hart vs Sting (Sharpshooter vs Scorpian)

[MrBarlow]

This was recommended to me on YouTube.

[Susan Foreman]

The official poster for the WrestleMania Backlash PPV, due to be held on May 16

Featured are Bobby Lashley, Bianca Belair, Roman Reigns and Rhea Ripley

[MrBarlow]

Just heard Jerome Young aka New Jack has died at the age of 58 due to a heart attack.