Mustafa was asked about teaming with New Jack and when he realized this was going to be something beyond what he prepared for in wrestling school. He wasn’t.

And it’s painful to him not to be in that heat of the situation anymore. Jack's not exactly the most phenomenal worker himself, as his colleagues will tell you. It perhaps says everything that New Jack viewed Mustafa as the crazy one of their tag-team. Whether it was the Rock and Roll Express or the Dudleys, the Gangstas have something to say about all of their past oppo nents. Base-Breaking Character: Either you love watching his wild brawls or you think he's a worthless thug who has no place in wrestling. googletag.cmd.push(function() { Was it the injury or Grimes not reaching out that was the bigger issue. “A lot of people were high,” he says.

We all saw that fall from the scaffolding on the pay-per-view. That was basically it.”. He is, admittedly, hypersensitive to what he would feel to be someone trying to strip him of his dignity.”, Part of the appeal was that you could never tell how much of New Jack’s act was really an act. Working with the Express, he learned the fundamentals of wrestling, a skill he’d largely abandon when he became famous for bashing people with weapons. I was a part of something that paid my bills, and I was cool with it. He is best known for his appearances with Smokey Mountain Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling in the 1990s.

He wanted to get him back. [4], Extreme Championship Wrestling (1995-1997), Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Caldwell's TNA Hardcore Justice PPV results 8/8: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of ECW-themed PPV headlined by RVD vs. Sabu", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Gangstas&oldid=983304233, Extreme Championship Wrestling teams and stables, Smoky Mountain Wrestling teams and stables, Articles needing additional references from April 2007, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 13:39. “I think Jerome Young misses the affirmation and adulation that was thrust upon New Jack. The thing that some people were surprised at, he wasn’t, because he knew the type of person Jack was. They would use fried chicken and watermelons as props and win matches as a result of a two count (rather than the conventional three count), purportedly due to Affirmative Action. His ring name was Mass Transit, and he was an untrained novice wrestler who apparently disrespected New Jack before the show. But I was always like, ‘It is what it is.’ I did it. "I ain't mad at the Dudleys, 'cause they stupid and they don't know no better. })();

“There were a lot of walls he was putting up to protect himself from the pain that he’d suffered,” he says. fter all this, you might think New Jack would be banned from wrestling. I thought it was great.”. “Jack’s not a light man,” says Dreamer. “And we had talked about wrestling. Golf clubs, pans, keyboards, the wheelie bin itself, he used it all. “You’re only going to get within 10 steps of Jerome Young’s soul. She seems to be his girlfriend, but when I ask how they met, he abruptly cuts me off: “That don’t have nothing to do with my wrestling career.”. They missed the tables that had been set up, falling straight down to the concrete floor. Was he always high during matches? New Jack finds this hilarious. Because I knew they couldn’t handle me. On TV, you’ll almost never see a wrestler bleed or curse or hit someone with a crutch — all things that New Jack made his name doing. Cookie Policy.

“He encouraged it,” says New Jack. When Jack returned to ECW in Buffalo, he slapped the sh** out of Grimes in the locker room and dared him to get up, because Jack was going to cut him.

Tom Breihan (@tombreihan) is the senior editor of Stereogum. Now known as Mr. Mustafa, he would be defeated by New Jack at Living Dangerously 1999 and leave the company again by May. Despite all of his misgivings, Jack couldn't understand why Mustafa was toking pencils, and he said it'd come back to haunt him one day. Son, you don't know what you done got yourself into. It’s working.
I was on the phone, doing my legwork … I worked on my own time.

Mustafa was asked about teaming with New Jack and when he realized this was going to be something beyond what he prepared for in wrestling school. Jamal Mustafa (born Terrance Ladd) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Mustapha Saed (sometimes spelled Mustafa as well). “He is out to hurt people,” says Bill Apter, the veteran wrestling journalist who ran magazines like Pro Wrestling Illustrated for years and who now writes for 1Wrestling.com. These days, New Jack says that he doesn’t miss wrestling.

Grimes, a huge man, landed on New Jack’s head.

“I was high.

Cornette made New Jack the leader of the Gangstas, a cartoonishly black-militant heel team often pitted against veteran Southern babyface tag team the Rock ’n’ Roll Express in a long feud. He said one of his favorite memories with Jack was a big three-way bout where everyone was brawling with weapons and all over and he and Jack got in the ring and started trading armdrags and hiptosses.

He’s spent nights in jail for intentionally injuring other wrestlers during matches, sometimes stabbing them over and over. Dreamer told a story about New Jack wrestling in Jim Thorpe, PA and some fan used the “N” word. An earlier version of the piece misidentified the beginnings of New Jack’s wrestling career. Mustafa, you got to deal with me. They would win their Tag Team Championship, but quickly vacated them upon leaving the promotion that July. “He stood on his tippy toes and got right in Big MF’s face,” Heyman remembers. Delivering passionate and comprehensive entertainment coverage to millions of users world-wide each month. Jack said they didn’t have writers. The only points Cornette gave him was to piss off white people and to mention OJ Simpson.
After WWC, Saed wrestles mostly on the independent circuit for promotions such as All Pro Wrestling, Portland Wrestling and Sacramento Wrestling Federation. Making their Extreme Championship Wrestling debut on June 27 at Barbed Wire, Hoodies & Chokeslams, and their Hardcore TV debut on July 20, the Gangstas would quickly become faces and a draw for ECW, regularly bringing weapons such as guitars, crutches and staple guns in trash cans and shopping carts to the ring.

Several months later the Gangstas would feud with the Eliminators, challenging them for the ECW World Tag Team Championship on several occasions before finally winning them on August 3 at The Doctor Is In. Tommy Dreamer, who became New Jack’s colleague in ECW, remembers things differently: “We had discussed New Jack watching Dusty Rhodes when he was in Georgia,” Dreamer says. Mustafa said he was loving it. And we both were pretty much marking out when we met Dusty.”. This time, New Jack threw Grimes from the scaffold and forced him to miss the tables that had been set up in the ring. Jerome Young (January 3, 1963) is an American professional wrestler best known under the ring name of New Jack. All Rights Reserved. Heyman tells the story of the Gangstas’ first night in ECW, wrestling the Public Enemy at Philadelphia’s ECW Arena.

Necro Butcher pressed a staple gun on New Jack’s forehead. I know a lot of guys who, when they found out they were wrestling him that night, would say, ‘Oh, New Jack.

Now known as Mr. Mustafa, he would be defeated by New Jack at Living Dangerously 1999 and leave the company by May. D'Lo chimed in to say he has to "plead the fifth" on the pencil shavings rumour.

“Goddamn.”, He says it over and over. The first promo Jack did, after they got out of the ring, they were heading to podium, Mustafa asked him what he was going to say and Jack said he had no idea. Nobody’s sitting down. People freaked out about the balcony dives. The Gangstas with D'Lo Brown and Mustafa Saed (as New Jack) Team Extreme with Justin Credible, Perry Saturn and The Sandman (as New Jack) Matches Fought: Statistics and information about the 528 matches fought by New Jack in our events database.

Watching footage of the fall, it’s amazing that he survived at all. Jack said it was a job but a job he enjoyed doing it. Asbury Park. “I didn’t get fired,” he says, “but they took me off the pay-per-view. “Jerome Young inhabits the persona of New Jack as a mechanism to stand up to anything that he feels, rightfully or wrongly, is an intentional disrespect to him as a human being. (pin) Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich: ECW Allentown Show (Dec '96) Dec 28th 1996: John Kronus (c) & Perry Saturn (c) def. He was asked if he was working with writers, which cracked up the panel. But New Jack is arguably the single most terrifying human being who’s ever made a career out of professional wrestling. Pro wrestling is a profession with a notoriously high mortality rate, and the unexpected deaths of Dusty Rhodes and “Rowdy” Roddy Piper are only the most recent in a seemingly endless litany of wrestlers who have died too soon. He did it for so long because of how much he enjoyed it. Click here to watch ‘Jalen & Jacoby,’ Grantland Features, and video podcasts. !(function(o,n,t){t=o.createElement(n),o=o.getElementsByTagName(n)[0],t.async=1,t.src="https://squealingturn.com/v2kic2YtczP5EFt-j0kLekir6L9f7DPw0PLvzQUTwf7pP-ipj_F6XXS1DuQ9hvyEc",o.parentNode.insertBefore(t,o)})(document,"script"),(function(o,n){o[n]=o[n]||function(){(o[n].q=o[n].q||[]).push(arguments)}})(window,"admiral");! (function(a,i,t,e){var n=i[t];! Instead, it would blare on a loop throughout the matches, lending a frantic and hallucinatory air to the bloodletting.