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The Violent Side of Wrestling - Part IV

This is Mortal Van Dam who once again welcomes you and thanks all for the support towards his articles.

New Jack Breaks Wrestler's Leg with a Chair

Let us now go to the year 1996 on the 30th of March.

A tag-team match between Stevie Richards & The Blue Meanie and The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa Saed) was planned but Stevie suffered a cracked orbital bone in a match with Rob Van Dam the night before (ECW played off the injury as an attack by Tommy Dreamer, due to their feud at the time) and thus couldn't compete.

ECW brought "Stone Cold" Chad Austin to replace Stevie and planned to create something like the Mass Transit Incident with "Stone Cold" Chad Austin suffering a similar fate for similar reasons.

The Blue Meanie states, in an interview for his Myspace fans: "Austin was no stranger to getting himself the worst type of heat you could get in a locker room. His mouth wrote his ass Trump-sized checks.”

According to The Blue Meanie, Austin’s heat with New Jack started when Austin (back in Smokey Mountain Wrestling) showed up to Smokey Mountain’s locker room pretending to be an agent for ECW telling them that he can get them a job with ECW. He told Jack: "Hey Jack, you think you could put a word in for me?" and Jack replied: "YOU'RE the ECW agent. Why do you need my help?”

“Austin gained so much heat in Smokey Wrestling that there were running bets on who would beat his ass first, between New Jack and Bruiser Bedlam.”

To make things worse, when Austin arrived at ECW, he went to New Jack and started dictating what he thought they should do. And according to The Blue Meanie “New Jack comes up to me and says "Meanie, me and Mustafa are working you and this BOY, Chad Austin. Stay with Mustafa. Don't come near me." So I took the wise road and stayed out of the New Jack no fly zone."

On the 4th of April 1996, ECW aired the show and while New Jack did seem to pull most of his punches, his chair shots were a different story. New Jack's attack was dominated by his beating of Austin with chair shots without control. After the chairs, New Jack grabbed a fan's metal crutch and slammed it (bending it) on Austin's back. Austin tried running away but New Jack grabbed another chair and slammed it down sideways across the top of Austin's neck who collapsed to the ground. Yet New Jack was not finished.

New Jack told IGN: “Chad Austin ...he came up to me before the match and said he wanted to have a match like we had against Public Enemy. He was talking about how he wanted this, that, and the other, blood and guts, and I was like, who is this guy?”

As seen, that was a bad move and New Jack continues:  “He pissed me off so bad that that's how I came up with my finish. They call it a 187, diving off of the top rope with the chair. Chad is the reason I came up with that because I wanted to do something to him that people would really remember. I needed something that I thought would kill that one with, so I dove off with the chair and smashed him in the face with the chair. That's how I started doing that as my finish. So, thank you, Chad."

So, to rephrase, Mustafa power slammed Austin and New Jack jumps down on Austin's skull with an impressive thud. The referee started counting until 3 even though Austin's left shoulder was up. After that, New Jack sat on Austin's head for a few seconds before and then grabbed the same chair used for the 187 and hit Austin five times breaking Chad Austin's leg as the third hit Austin's knee with the steel frame of the chair. Austin tried getting up to run and protect himself but collapsed again and had to be rolled out of the ring.

No need to pass any comment right? Watching the video will leave you shocked at New Jack's impressive adrenaline rush and aggressiveness whilst delivering the chair shots.

New Jack Arrested for Stabbing a Wrestler

On October 10, 2004, New Jack was arrested for stabbing William "Hunter" Lane 9 times with a shiv during a match that was being held at a nearly empty ballroom at the Radison Riverwalk Hotel.

The stabbing started early on in the match after Lane starts swinging and catches Jack in the side of the head with a powerful right punch. This made New Jack mad.

Lane tries to pick Jack up with the intention of slamming him down but New Jack his opponent's head with his left arm. New Jack reaches for a pocket in his trousers and pulls a sharp piece of metal. He reaches around and stabs Lane near the neck, then his back and near his shoulder blade with an evident aggressiveness.

Jack continues hitting lane and cuts him five more times until Lane drops to the mat. Jack knees Lane brutally in the face with the latter ending up flying out of the ring and onto the floor of the ballroom. The fans, standing, look afraid.

Jack jumps down and slashes Lane again and stabs him hard and deep in the back. He seems to realize Lane is hurt and looks worried so the stabbing ends here and keeps his foot on Lane and keeps slamming his face.

At that point, someone nears New Jack to stop him. This ends up being an undercover cop. Jack grabs the promoter by the shirt and tells him that Lane was hurt and then rips off his shirt to keep Lane from "bleeding to death."

The off-duty police officer who assisted the event called the police during the match because he thought it was "real" and New Jack ended up in jail for 3 weeks and even requested money for his bail via his official website.

After being released, New Jack gave an interview to Weekly Planet and said that the attack and stabbing was planned and that Lane wanted to bleed: "He wanted a brutal match".

As New Jack states, newspapers made a feast of this: "They made it sound like I cut him in the parking lot.” And after watching the video, Duval County Assistant State Attorney Robert Lippelman thought the same as the newspapers and wanted to put New Jack in prison for 15 years for aggravated battery as Lippelman considered it as "one of the most egregiously violent things I've ever seen, to any reasonable person, it's offensively violent". Charges dropped, though, as according to Lippleman "the victim wanted the charges dropped He said he knew New Jack's modus operandi is cutting. They kind of agreed that a certain amount of blood would be drawn by cutting."

This made New Jack furious and claims that William Lane did not know kayfabe, and didn't know what very common wrestling terms like "face" "heel" and "shoot" meant.

In court, New Jack defended himself by claiming that Lane's last punch was full forced and that Lane tried to put New Jack on the defense.

Lane walked out of the match with 4 serious stab wounds to the back …

… and New Jack gained more popularity than ever with his face appearing everywhere including on the cover of Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, an Xbox/Playstation2 game. The game maker states that: "When I was casting this game, I asked, 'Who are the most hardcore wrestling icons out there? New Jack was on a short list. A very short list."

After that, Jack has portrayed a biker in an episode of Early Edition, a TV series about the paranormal … on Maury Povich as a "scared straight" mentor … on a new DVD with Atlanta rap group Goodie Mob ... performed a wrestling skit at a Limp Bizkit concert and legendary funk bassist Bootsie Collins wrote a rap song for him that he uses when he enters the ring.

A wrestling promoter once said: "Wrestling is perceived as a total fiction. That's where people make a mistake. Everything you see in wrestling actually happens. If you see somebody climb to the top of the ropes and dive across and smash face-first into the ring, that's not fake. They did that. If New Jack jumps off a scaffold, that happened. This isn't fake. This isn't staged and God knows it is never rehearsed. It's a gray area that confuses people who want a simple answer to a complicated question."

That was all about New Jack’s violence … next week I will give you a conclusion about this character (hit the word limit this week) and we start looking at somebody else.

[P.S. Read the comments section as I reply to all and will give you a list of links for the accidents mentioned in this series. Enjoy!]

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Comments

  1. Comment #1

    Well, I can't very well give myself CPR :(
    I also have a question, will you write on more mainstream wrestlers (like Mick Foley) or will they be lesser known faces.

    Posted by Dr Frank on Wednesday, September 08, 2010

  2. Comment #2

    HAHA lol your comment was awesome Dr Frank ... but ure a doctor, why should you worry about ur heart failure :P you know how to act in such a situation!!

    Posted by Mortal Van Dam on Monday, September 06, 2010

  3. Comment #3

    Wow, I've read all your articles and despite the gore in them I really appreciate your writing style. Thanks for presenting something like this for weak-hearted people like me in a suitable manner. Your articles have an interesting non-fiction tinge to them.

    Posted by Dr Frank on Monday, September 06, 2010

  4. Comment #4

    I will write about any accident i find ... so next part will give a last bit (sort of conclusion) about New Jack and will write about drugs. Then the article following that will start talking about accidents which will be about mainstreams like Sabu etc but also on accidents that occurred in Japan and other promotions which are not that popular. I will also add accidents which do not involve wrestlers (such as when fireworks hit people during WM and an accident where a backstage person died and another injured during TNA's PPV).

    When I run out of these accidents (which believe me I got alot so won't be anytime soon) I will start a new article section about the funny side of wrestling such as when blackouts occurred during matches, mistakes during interviews etc...

    so you will not get rid of me anytime soon :P

    Posted by Mortal Van Dam on Thursday, September 09, 2010

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