New Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist

by New Jack, Jason Norman

Overview

You may have cheered him. You may have booed him out of the building. But until now, you've never really known "The Most Dangerous Man in Wrestling."

For the first time, Jerome "New Jack" Young opens up about his rise to stardom in Extreme Championship Wrestling. From his crazed dives off balconies and scaffolds to his bloody weapons matches that trampled the line between reality and entertainment, this candid memoir reveals the man behind the infamy, with new disclosures about the Mass Transit incident, the brutal beat-down of Gypsy Joe, and the stabbing of a fellow wrestler in Florida.

Beyond the gimmicks that united white supremacists and the NAACP against him, New Jack discusses his violent youth that nearly led him to a life of crime, his career as a bounty hunter, a near-fatal drug addiction, the last months of ECW, and his place in wrestling history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476638300
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/24/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Jerome “New Jack” Young started his career in wrestling on a whim. He then plunged into sports entertainment for over a quarter century, winning multiple titles in a career that took him all over the country, his greatest success coming in both singles and tag team action in Extreme Championship Wrestling for much of the 1990s. He lived in Greensboro, North Carolina. An award-winning journalist and lifelong wrestling fan, Jason Norman teaches college English in southeastern Virginia.
The late Jerome "New Jack" Young started his career in wrestling on a whim. He then plunged into sports entertainment for over a quarter century, winning multiple titles in a career that took him all over the country, his greatest success coming in both singles and tag team action in Extreme Championship Wrestling for much of the 1990s. He lived in Greensboro, North Carolina.
An award-winning journalist and lifelong wrestling fan, Jason Norman teaches college English in southeastern Virginia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
 1. Growing Up Violent
 2. Moving Everywhere
 3. Recording Some Crime
 4. Higher Education
 5. Hunting for Bounties
 6. Drugs Arrive
 7. The Call of Wrestling
 8. Crossing to the USWA
 9. Back to Georgia
10. Climbing the Mountain
11. A Taste of Extreme
12. ECW Debut
13. Ring Rats
14. New Jack’s Kids
15. Using Drugs
16. Kayfabe
17. Taking Dives
18. New Weaponry
19. Oct. 6, 1995—A Dance with Dudley
20. New Jack Goes Good
21. Jack vs. Austin and Pillman
22. Title Shots
23. ­Pay-per-view Approaches
24. Mass Transit
25. Mustafa Leaves
26. WCW/WWE
27. Too Close to Death
28. Spike Dudley
29. Mustafa’s Return
30. An Awesome Stapling
31. Some New Fans
32. An Acting Career
33. My Fall at Danbury
34. Things Get Hotter
35. ECW Begins to End
36. My View of Paul E.
37. XPW
38. Grimes Goes Down
39. Gypsy Joe
40. CZW
41. TNA
42. The Florida Stabbing
43. My Fighting Career
44. Wildside
45. The Benoit Murders
46. Retirement
47. Meeting and Marrying Jennifer
48. Injuries
Epilogue
Index

Editorial Reviews

A well written, page turning book that will keep the audience entertained”—Lance Writes: Reviews by Lance Lumley

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