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The Violent Side of Wrestling - Part II

This is Mortal Van Dam once again!! After last week we had an intensive look at the background of our first entry for the Violent Side of Wrestling; New Jack, we will now move on to the first event that made New Jack so popular with the fans:

The Danbury Fall

As a start we should talk about what is probably one of the most horrifying wrestling accidents after Owen Hart’s tragical death.

On March 13 of the year 2000, at ECW's Living Dangerously, Vic Grimes set up a spot in the match where he and New Jack would fall off a balcony together. New Jack had done several balcony dives before so this was not unusual for New Jack. Vic Grimes was another story.

According to New Jack (to Wrestling Digest), Vic Grimes wanted them to jump off a scaffolding which appeared to be very unstable and even though Grimes said to have checked it, he didn’t. Grimes didn’t even want to jump when up there as he "said it was too high.” So New Jack told him that it was a pay-per-view but Grimes was afraid of the height and so New Jack “snatched him, and we fell. The first table broke my fall, and he did a flip in the air and his back ran up against my head, and my head hit the floor.” New Jack ended up breaking his leg and his right arm, cracked his sternum and lost his sight permanently from one eye. “I was laid up for a long time after that one and I still came back".

Yeah that is it … A ring with a 12 table structure built in a pyramid shape with the aim of breaking the fall of both wrestlers … but instead this did not happened. The fans at the pay-per-view saw something different; instead of twelve tables cracking in two at the weight of the wrestlers, they saw nearly all the tables remain in place and two wrestlers flying to the ground, 25 feet down on concrete.

 The result, as Jack said, was just temporary for him except a permanent blindness from his right eye as Vic Grimes fell on Jack’s head and suffered nerve damage.

Wrestling Digest asked New Jack about his thoughts whilst up there ready to jump off the balcony and Jack replied by saying: “Two words go through my mind when I get up there: "Oh, crap!" Everybody knows about the Vic Grimes thing, but that wasn't really my fault. He got up there and sissied out. I snatched his ass off the thing, and he just fell on top of me.” New Jack continues saying that he cracked his ribs a couple of times and landed wrong and broke his leg three times. “I'll do it until I don't want to do it anymore. I've never been afraid of heights. Most of the time when I do it, the worst that happens to me is that I get the wind knocked out of me.”

Over a year later, New Jack would get his revenge on Grimes. They held a rematch in Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), with the tables set up like the first match but this time, 40 feet above the ground!!

New Jack, of course, cannot forget his blindness and despite this was due to an accident, New Jack took it all on Vic.

Fans that day saw another shocking match. New Jack had a stun gun and shocked Grimes multiple times before throwing  Grimes from the scaffolding they were standing on, with Grimes plummeting around 40 feet into the ring. The stunt did not work out as planned, as Grimes only landed on one of the twelve tables that were intended to break his fall and ended up dislocating his ankle on the ring rope. Yeah, just a dislocation of an ankle after a 40 FEET jump, a bounce on the ropes and ending out of the ring!!!

New Jack gave an interview in 2005 for a documentary named Forever Hardcore where he claimed that he had intentionally thrown Grimes too hard in the hopes so that he would hit the ring post. His aim was to intentionally injure seriously or even kill Grimes. New Jack’s calmness and determination during the interview would make one believe that he is saying the truth but when evaluating better the video, Grimes can be seen pushing off the scaffold with his foot which is one of the main factors leading to the botch.

New Jack also stated that the Living Dangerously accident was his own fault for prematurely pulling Grimes down from the scaffold. Jack said that Grimes had been going around telling the locker room that he hurt New Jack, until Jack replied by saying "I hurt me."

So, after hearing the events, I come to my suggestion for a memorable night for the ECW/TNA pay-per-view … a proposal which will make TNA so popular in all newspapers, will leave fans open-mouthed and talk about it for days, a proposal that will leave fans waiting for more and thus get more views for Thursday’s iMPACT! Episodes (I mean, if Dixie keeps promising this surprise for months like she is doing best)

TNA, Vic Grimes and New Jack are tied now … New Jack got his revenge and repaid Vic … how about a New Jack versus Vic Grimes match to close this story once and for all? How about a main event for HardCore Justice seeing New Jack facing Vic Grimes in a REAL Last Man Standing Match (in the literary sense) and the one who wins the match wins the best of three and the loser gets his name on the papers: Wrestler DIES During Wrestling Pay-Per-View?

Ruled Out for ‘Unnecessary Roughness'

Have you ever seen a hardcore match end up being won by the loser? Weird eh …

Let us travel three years ahead of the Danbury Fall and end up at April of 2003.

New Jack heard that a Veteran star of NWA Main Event was saying that he wanted to wrestle him. And what do you think that a gangster did? Ignore all rumors? Yeah lol…

New Jack was flown to Tennessee to pay a visit to the veteran by the name of Gypsy Joe. When Jack arrived, he found out that Gypsy Joe was a small, skinny, 70+ year old wrestler who has long since lived out his highlight days in the business. Despite this, Gypsy is named by WWE’s Magazine as the world's oldest wrestler at the age of 73 back in 2007. Today, three years older, Gypsy Joe is still wrestling regularly, at the age of 76, in Tennessee and surrounding areas. And you guys say Hogan and Flair are old :P !!

But let us not deviate from our story…

New Jack was confused and asked the promoter what he was supposed to do in this match. New Jack sarcastically said he could either "beat him to death" or "have some sort of comedy match and lose dollar value in my name."

But the promoter assured New Jack that Joe could take a beating, that he was “tough as leather." And that is all New Jack wanted to hear!!

At one point in the match, Gypsy Joe and New Jack ended up on the outside of the ring. Joe started shooting on New Jack, punching and head butting him. Yet Joe's punches were not convincing the audience as he was not selling the punches New Jack was throwing. New Jack had finally had enough and began the attack on Gypsy Joe.

New Jack began to legitimately beat Gypsy Joe with an aluminum bat wrapped in barbed-wire, whole rows of heavy plastic chairs, and a thick steel chain.

Now, the match was an official hardcore match but New Jack was exaggerating and the match had to be ruled to Joe as the winner for "unnecessary roughness."

Now one should note that the fans who cheered for the guest, New Jack, at the beginning of the show now started insulting New Jack with racist terms and calling for the bell to ring as Gypsy Joe was in evident suffering. New Jack had no problem using the same ‘racial comments calling' tactic back and that continued infuriating the fans.

New Jack claims that he had to hide in the trunk of someone's car to leave because somebody had called the cops on him for his actions.

That was Mortal Van Dam with the second part of the Violent Side of Wrestling series. Whilst hoping that you are enjoying these writings, I once again emphasize NOT TO TRY THIS AT HOME :P because it might cause some damage. See you next week with some other shocking accidents involving New Jack.

P.S. I would like to emphasize on the importance of your comments. Your comments give me a good boost to continue this series and help me a lot to improve. Mortal Van Dam is also looking for new ideas to write about; not just about wrestling accidents but ANYTHING that comes to your mind.

Every comment will be taken in consideration.

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Comments

  1. Comment #1

    hey are you the guy that wrote the article in wikipedia? coz word to word everything's there.... except for few of ur opinions n stuff

    Posted by critic on Monday, August 23, 2010

  2. Comment #2

    Dear critic can you show me proof of where I copied from wiki?

    1. wikipedia gives no reference to Wrestling Digest's interview.
    2. Wikipedia mentions just 3 lines about the Hardcore match mentioned above.
    3. Wikipedia offers just 9 lines about the Danbury Fall with nothing close to the details given above or the nearly 1k words about it and nothing about what New Jack said about it.

    When you offer proof about where I copied, I will reply. Thanks

    Posted by Mortal Van Dam on Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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