New Jack retires from pro wrestling

[LucharesuFan619 0]

EXCLUSIVE NEWS about New Jack

Date: 9/9/2004

By: RF VIDEO

 

 

 

I just got a phone call from New Jack and he is officially done with Pro Wrestling. He made it clear that he is not going to be like Terry Funk and come back to the sport again. His body and other problems led him to his decision to hang up his boots. New Jack will always be remembered for being one of the most violent men in ECW and pro wrestling all over the world. He is one of the more controversial figures in our sport.

 

New Jack started his career is USWA and then moved on to Smokey Mountain wrestling teaming with Mustafa as they were a tag team called The Gangsters. He had a falling out with Jim Cornette and wound up in ECW around 1995.

 

The gangsters made their first NY appearance at Heat Wave '95 in Middletown, ny at the Orange County Fairgrounds Vs Public Enemy. In ECW they had some of the greatest brawls with the Dudleys and Eliminators. New Jack was always the kind of guy that spoke his mind which led to several backstage fights including one with Brian Pillman that I was a witness to. Most of his fights with the Sandman were nothing more than two friends fighting and making up the next day. When Mustafa left ECW New Jack still was able to keep himself on top as the most over babyface besides The Sandman and Tommy Dreamer.

 

On 11-23-1996 New Jack will always be remembered for what he did to Eric Kulas that cold night in Boston. He was never convicted for cutting Eric Kulas with a huge knife sort of like a box cutter. We just released that video by the way.

 

When ECW folded New Jack was able to be a major player on the Indy scene. He worked for XPW, TNA, and USA Pro.

 

New Jack never was the same after his injury that he had at the ECW PPV in CT with Vic Grimes. Jack was thrown off a scaffold and landed head first into the hard floor. Vic Grimes also fell with Jack and landed on him. New Jack suffered permanent eye problems from that bump which was not planned.

 

RF VIDEO just sat down with New Jack about a month ago for one of our best shoot interviews to date. He is the only guy besides Steve Corino that has done three shoot interviews with us. We wish New Jack the best of luck in his future and the wrestling world will miss him. Do I think he will be back? This is Pro wrestling so we will have to see.

 

 

 

 

My (LucharesuFan619's) note (don't want it to be confused with RF, who wrote the above): I know someone who's very good friends with New Jack personally and he confirms that Jack is done. Which is weird, since Meltzer just posted earlier today Jack was booked vs. Justin Credible in a few weeks for USA Pro. Bill Behrens had been insisting that Jack would retire in December 2004 at NWA Wildside Christmas Chaos, but obviously that wasn't meant to be.

 

I'm not New Jack's biggest fan, but he is a character like none other. He has so many strip club stories you'd think he's a pimp instead of a wrestler. Truly someone you can't get bored talking to, if you're willing to crack some smiles every now and then.

 

 

 

MY QUESTION: Why the fuck is ROB FEINSTEIN talking to New Jack, when New Jack AND his lawyer/associate Bob Barnett have publicly hated RF for years? This business sure is weird. I thought they HATED each other - not just disliked, but hated. Crazy.

[yankovic fan 0]

Since when did New Jack wrestle?

[Guest netslob]

i'm gonna miss him. yeah, i know, he'll never match Steamboat or Flair in the pure technical wrestling dept., but the bastard has always been entertaining. he's probably the single most un-sung interview in the whole wrestling business. when he spoke, you listened. hell, given his style, i'm surprised he's lasted this long, just proving he may be one of the toughest men in wrestling. not to mention one of the most legitimately dangerous. he's the only wrestler i'm seriously afraid of. enjoy your retirement, Jack. you've earned it.

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

New Jack brought more intensity to a promo than pretty much everyone going outside of Foley when he was in the zone.

 

His promo on the Harris Bros on TNA was just classic in that it made me care about the HARRIS BROTHERS FIGHTING NEW JACK. "I don't know holds! I Don't know moves! I KNOW WHIPPIN YO ASS" was just the perfect quote for such an occasion. He of course ended the promo with "YOU BITCHES"

 

But yes, worst wrestler ever.

[Guest Staravenger]

To quote Jim Ross....

 

Na

Na Na Na

Na Na

Na Na Na Na Na

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Hey, Hey, Hey

Good-bye!

 

Sorry, I think I enjoyed one or two New Jack matches in his entire career. He's a horrible wrestler, I'm not much of a fan of garbage brawling, and the only other plus of his was his mic skills...when he felt like being *on*.

[Guest JMA]

But yes, worst wrestler ever.

Ahem.

 

[Guest Staravenger]

I don't know....Ric Flair carried him to *** matches (or so some people say). Has New Jack ever had a * Wrestling Match?

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

Well New Jack did use a belly to belly sometimes. And he used a snapmare to set up his "Slam crutch into groin" spot. So yes, I stand corrected, New Jack is not the worst ever.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

New Jack was by no means a wrestler, but damn he could be entertaining as hell and he did his gimmick perfectly.

[Guest W_Hillard]

I always viewed New Jack as more of a brawler than a wrestler. Which was pretty much his gimmick, and he made it work for him.

 

There were certain elements I always looked for in a New Jack match, though:

 

1) Bucket o' foreign objects. He always seemed to have a trash can full of shit that he brought to the ring with him. And it always seemed to include a guitar. Which brings me to

 

2) Dance with guitar and then a guitar-shot to the head.

 

3) The jump off that damn balcony.

 

These are the three things I could almost count on seeing when New Jack would wrestle. And, I could be wrong, but I believe that he took more risks than anybody else on the ECW roster at the time.

 

Nope, not much of a wrestler. But I did enjoy the hell out of his matches. I'm gonna miss him.

[SinToxic 0]

uhh who's next Christopher Daniels?

 

The good ones go out so young.

[Slickster 0]

Watching ECW as a 15-year-old staying up till 1am to catch Hardcore TV, New Jack matches were always a guilty pleasure of mine. The music (that never shut off), the staple gun shots, the multiple groin shots with [insert random weapon here], the utter chaos that his matches were...his matches made me mark out and crack up every time. Thanks, New Jack, for kicking ass.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

When me and Rudo went to ECW in their only show ever in Canada New Jack was supposed to be out with a foot injury.

 

Suffice to say the marking out was at fever pitch when New Jack made a surprise return to do a run-in on Justin Credible and Rhino. One of the biggest live "buckwildshit" moments I've ever been a part of.

 

Thanks for that, Jerome.

[Mecha Mummy 0]

I don't like New Jack as a wrestler, but he was bizarrely entertaining to watch, and I adored his segments with Shark Boy in TNA last year to the point where my sig for like a third of 2003 was various pictures of them.

 

I'll never forget the surreal sight of New Jack wearing Hulk Hands and doing various Hulk Hogan poses and looking like he has no idea what the hell he's doing. I wish him the best in whatever he does from here on out.

[LucharesuFan619 0]

Jack was planning an autobiography as of a year and a half ago. I hope he still is because that'd be cool to read.

[Dewe 0]

I also liked New Jack. He was just... for real.

 

And his stuff with Shark Boy was hilarious.

I just had to upload their segment in the shark tank:

 

Enjoy!

(right click, save target as, rename to .wmv)

[Guest Staravenger]

I'll never forget the surreal sight of New Jack wearing Hulk Hands and doing various Hulk Hogan poses and looking like he has no idea what the hell he's doing. I wish him the best in whatever he does from here on out.

That was probably one of the funnier (intentionally) moments I've ever seen with New Jack. Still doesn't make me like his matches, but that was damn entertaining.

 

Wasn't that a Hard 10 Match versus Mike Sanders from the 1 Year Anniversary Show?

[Guest M. Harry Smilac]

Yea he couldn't wrestle and seemed like a guy you wouldn't wanna be on's bad side if you knew him personally but I still remember marking for NBK hitting at the end of every ecw show as New Jack made his way out with a shopping cart of shit and every single person in the crowd had their arms crossed above their heads.

 

 

I saw him on the new MLW on sunshine tagging with Hack Myers a few times recently and he seemed to just be going through the motions now.He still gets pops but no more shopping cart and hardly any enthusiasm

[Guest Loss]

I'm glad that stain on the wrestling business is leaving. He practically killed Eric Kulas in 1996 by slicing him to shreds. I'm stunned that he was able to get bookings after that. It should have blacklisted him.

[Guest MikeSC]

I'm glad that stain on the wrestling business is leaving. He practically killed Eric Kulas in 1996 by slicing him to shreds. I'm stunned that he was able to get bookings after that. It should have blacklisted him.

I'd think his insanely shitty matches would be enough to blacklist him. Oh, and being an unprofessional dick of Nash levels.

-=Mike

[Guest Staravenger]

I don't know, Nash looks like an angel compared to New Jack.

[Steviekick 0]

At least New Jack entertained people.

[notJames 0]

Correction: the only entertainment derived from a New Jack "wrestling" match was the theme music that they always forgot to turn off. If I wanted to see uncoordinated morons throwing garbage at each other, I'll watch the drunken hobos under a bridge.

 

Oh, and Nash sucks a bag of soggy dicks, too.

[Guest netslob]

Correction: the only entertainment derived from a New Jack "wrestling" match was the theme music that they always forgot to turn off. If I wanted to see uncoordinated morons throwing garbage at each other, I'll watch the drunken hobos under a bridge.

speak for yourself. like i said before, New Jack will never be considered one of the top five pure workers in wrestling history, but he was still highly entertaining on alot of levels. there was no one else like him, he was truely unique, and in this day in age, where it's hard to tell one bland wrestler from another, he stood out and blazed his own trail. good for him, i say. but that's just me.

[Guest Staravenger]

I hope I get that praise when attempting to murder someone in a wrestling ring.

[Guest netslob]

give it a shot, maybe you will.