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."

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Author:   New Jack ,  Jason Norman
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781476679778

ISBN 10:   1476679770
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   19 February 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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

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

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

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

Author Information

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.

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