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Director Barry Blaustein discusses his love for professional wrestling and clips of him viewing employees of the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. Mere seconds before the jump, Grimes became reluctant to take this very risky bump, and New Jack, annoyed with Grimes's reluctance (because of the live broadcast they had no time to improvise) dragged Grimes down with him after a count of three, and Grimes awkwardly fell half a second after Jack instead of falling together in the safest fashion. People cant force you to go that far what I did in wrestling was what I wanted to do, he wrote. Wrestling legend Jerome Young, who was known in the ring as New Jack Credit: Instagram @newjack147. 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. "[5], After viewing the film, McMahon removed all advertising for it from WWF broadcasts. It's not supposed to be real. Lane, like others before him, had an awkward discussion with New Jack while attempting to outline the match, ending with the novice wrestler slamming the table in frustration. After ECW declared bankruptcy in April 2001, New Jack began wrestling on the independent circuit. [7] Drozdov, who can vomit at will, is called on by McMahon to vomit in a bucket as a demonstration of his abilityan ability which earned him the ring name "Puke"which McMahon plans to use as part of Drozdov's new in-ring persona. In both cases, Young wrote in his autobiography, the police swept the incidents under the rug because nobody was going to put a Black man in jail for hurting a Black woman., The shooting and stabbing stood out as moments of extraordinary abuse flaring up along an interminable stretch of routine conflict. 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. New Jack understood the complicated nature of his legacy. 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. Maybe my favorite New Jack promo in ECW pic.twitter.com/vVAX9Lbh6B, Young came of age amid violent circumstances. Nor had the acting efforts discussed during his appearance in the 1999 documentary Beyond the Mat ever led to anything beyond script readings; improv in the wrestling ring remained his forte. 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. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Beyond Mars by Jack Williamson (2015, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! The New Jack name was inspired by the film New Jack City once Young imagined fans chanting it while he was in the ring, a vision that certainly came true countless times over. [14] In 2007, WWE initiated a policy to pay all expenses for any former WWWF/WWF/WWE performer who needed to enter into any form of drug rehabilitation. Besides being a brutal fighter and hard core wrestler, he also had a soft picture of his life which was out of sight of fans for a long time. He wrote that he didnt like how the dives came to be associated with backyard wrestling antics, since he had spent many years as a dues-paying wrestler before he began doing them. [49] In January, Jack was eliminated in a battle royal by White Mike, with Jack subsequently going on to defeat Mike in a singles match. New Jack, more interested in survival and self-respect than anything else, swerved everyone: He didnt lift a finger to train Lane, and he pocketed the money that the fans gave him for bail. Beyond the Mat is a 1999 American documentary film directed, written, produced and narrated by Barry W. Blaustein. Although New Jack thought that it would suffice to brutalize the promotions favorite wrestlers, such as Tracy Smothers and the Rock n Roll Express of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, Cornette recognized that New Jack had a prodigious talent for interviews and promos, and wanted him to lean into that ability. Best place to keep up with current talent and signings. New Jack blamed Grimes for the bad landing. He wanted to fix things but didn't know how". Transcend. Like its East Coast competitor Combat Zone Wrestling, which would book New Jack a few years later, XPW offered loads of bloody, ECW-inspired hardcore mayhem. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast [8] 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. He attended a dozen schools before finally graduating from D.M. The crowd, horrified by Jack's savage beating of this man either left the show in disgust or started calling Jack the N-word, a term he had been called almost every week during his days in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. I wish Jake all the best. As he recalled it, he snorted an eight ball of cocaine and pocketed a Taser prior to commencing his 2002 rematch against Grimes at the XPW show Freefall. Beyond the Mat is a 1999 documentary by filmmaker and wrestling fan Barry Blaustein, profiling the careers of several prominent wrestlers and touching on many more as they attempt to make it from the bottom of the totem pole to the top, in gory, grueling detail. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for BEYOND THE MAT '90s dvd Gritty Underground World Of Wrestling CACTUS JACK at the best online prices at eBay! To make matters worse, the scumbags in the crowd would have been cheering him on for beating up a Black man, and Id look like Id taken part in some dog-and-pony white supremacy show. Gypsy Joes toughness nevertheless shocked even New Jack, as the battered old man thanked his younger opponent for the match as New Jack was hurrying to exit the building before the police could get there. I just sat around and watched, like it was another TV show or something. [6] Blaustein has stated the opposite. Nobody told him to hurt himself; he chose to work at the extremes. 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). 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. While at D.M. (narrative written by) Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Nathan Barr Cinematography by Michael Grady . [19] Kulas subsequently sued New Jack and ECW for damages in July 1998, but lost the case. Jerome was not only my husband, he was my best friend and Im completely gutted. 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. 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. During 2003 New Jack wrestled occasional events for TNA wrestling. Therrell High School in 1981. I told the NAACP to kiss my Black ass!. What Does His New Deal Mean for the Eagles and the NFLs QB Market? After a brief run in Memphis, he returned to the Georgia independent scene and began pairing with former WCW enhancement talent Mustafa Saed. Dror Poleg, an author who writes about the future of cities, talks about the effects of urban change on finance, work, real estate, and technology, Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss the heartbreaking and terrifying news surrounding the shooting of teen Ralph Yarl, The guys also take a look at the URC and the big news at Leinster, with World Cupwinning coach Jacques Nienaber set to join the Irish outfit next season, Seerat and Michael also discuss the adjustments Steve Kerr should make going forward, Plus, Lakers empower Austin Reaves, Playoff Kawhi, and more first-round reactions, Plus: Renfield, The Popes Exorcist, and Evil Dead Rise, By submitting your email, you agree to our. Though criminal and civil charges followed, the latter ended up dismissed and New Jack was acquitted on the former after Heyman took the stand to explain that the wrestler became enraged when Kulass father directed a racial epithet at him during the match. 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. [1][5], Jake Roberts has stated that he was informed the film would be used to help children, but that never transpired. [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. Parents say. [5], New Jack earned his name working for Jim Cornette in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. 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. Lastly, Roberts is a wrestler whose height of popularity was in the 1980s. I reminded my brothers and sisters how many of them were on welfare. 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. Blaustein decided to show Foley and his wife the footage he captured at the event. When he noticed that the Gangstas were at risk of being lost in the shuffle, he decided to add sizzle to a 1997 match against D-Von and Bubba Ray Dudley by brawling with D-Von deep into the crowd. But by 2000, the end loomed for ECW. 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. 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