The Complicated Legacy Of New Jack 

Paul Heyman’s tribute to New Jack was great. Obviously they couldn’t show any footage from his matches, but it was still a heartfelt moment.

Mass Transit chillin in the afterlife, then.. 🎵 Journey with me into the mind of a MANIAC.. 🎵 👀

I’ll always say this about New Jack no matter what he said what he thought he did everything his way RIP New Jack

One of my favorite underrated New Jack moments has to be in TNA with his odd friendship with Shark Boy. Talking about them playing board games and whatnot. And seeing Jack in there with him and using a pair of Hulk Hands as a weapon was fucking surreal.

I hope he finds the peace he never found in life.

“You won’t need em. Bombs away” is one of those things that shouldn’t make you laugh but had tears in my eyes when you said that. New Jack was one of a kind.

Considering that WWE owns the rights to ECW, there was no way they could ignore New Jack since he is a star during the 90s

Now his Dark Side of the ring is an instant classic. Along with Animal, they are getting people in just the nick of time.

Honestly, I'm fine with this guy being gone. I'm gonna leave it at that since I dont want to pile on a dead guy. If you liked the guy and you miss him, good on you, I have no problem with you. I just dont see things the same way.

10:48 in reference to Vince not wanting Jack and Mustafa to come in for the invasion angle, I recently just saw a shoot interview clip of Francine saying Vince told her that he never watched the original ECW. My guess is that it wasn’t Vince himself that had a problem with Jack, it was someone in Vince’s circle that didn’t want him around.

New Jack's shoot interviews were great especially the RF Video ones..And again I'll say this..More than a decade ago..I met him up the street from my house in the local store..Here in Decatur GA..He lived and worked here for awhile for former nwa president..Bill Behrens..But when I met him, he was wearing a old ecw coat and riding in a benz...RIP Jerome Young...Definitely one of kind in this crazy wrestling business.

I don't think it was complicated, he was not a good person but he gave the business everything he had.

New Jack said in later interviews that the rumors of him killing two people as a bounty hunter were not true. Apparently someone else said that about him and he just ran with it.

"Paul Heyman, this is the same Muthfuuuha" LOL, damn I'm going to miss that dude!! RIP to the Realest!!

New Jack in TNA might be the best New Jack you'll ever see. He is hilarious, entertaining and had some great matches.

That promoter-turned-musician said it best: “...and a GREAT cook!”

From all the stories we hear and i would believed this man can never die then a simple heart attack takes him out. Wow I guess you really never know when or how you'll die. RIP New Jack.

His darkside of the ring episode is still my favorite episode. I was literally watching it when I looked at my phone and found out the bad news. I became a fan because of the episode. R.I.P. New Jack. Underrated wrestling star.

So many people wanna talk about 'blurring the lines, in wrestling'; work/shoot angles, who was most believable in the ring, 'loose cannons', ect. New Jack did/was ALL of that, and more. Was he the best in the ring, was he always safe? No, but the guy didn't need to be. All he needed to do, was his own thing, and he was instantly over. That's something unique, and worth remembering. Regardless, of his "complicated legacy". He made a name for himself, and won't be forgotten, anytime soon. ~R I P~

If New Jack wrestled for WWF/E in the Attitude Era, the Monday Night Wars would have ended MUCH sooner. He would have been a STAR. RIP New Jack.

He definitely wasnt a great person and did some fucked up shit but he was entertaining and felt more real than anything and didn't kiss anyone's ass to get a job. That's what I respect and love. Wish more wrestlers were like that now

He is in the after life right now in a hardcore handicap match against Mass transit and Gypsy Joe.

And nothing of value was lost

Too bad we never got Haku vs New Jack. The guy was entertaining when it came to shoot interviews and promos even weird ones like bigfoot and aliens haha. RIP you maniac

You're the man, Solomonster!

In a industry where you don't see many real characters, New Jack was a person who you knew he was a monster and his promos were amazing. However, his legacy is very complicated because he did inexcusable things that he should have been into jail. However, on the Mass Transit incident, I put the fault on the kid who lied about his age and had no business wrestling with a dangerous man in New Jack. Along with the kid's father who allowed his son to get messed up in the worst way. Everything about him is fair game. He should have been blackballed, but he wasn't and it speaks more about the wrestling business than anything else.

Jason i swear i was hoping you talk about this ! Damn as a fan u haven't let me down yet solomonster 👍👍

Watching Grimes fly through the air or those SMW promos will never get old RIP

He was TRASH. Serves him right.

Hearing about New Jack made me think of what Bill Maher said about the passing of Jerry Falwell: "Death isn't always sad." New Jack was a psychotic, homicidal piece of shit, end of story. The fact that he was so intelligent and able to understand what he did just makes him a bigger piece of shit. I watched his Dark Side of the Ring episode and still couldn't sympathize with the guy. The thing with Mass Transit was sickening, and the Vic Grimes thing is even more appalling to me now because until I watched this video, I didn't know that he made Grimes take that fall in their first match. He blamed Grimes for something that was New Jack's own damn fault! Good riddance to bad rubbish. The world can breathe a sigh of relief that this monster can't hurt anyone else.

I think new Jack could have been a hood dusty Rhodes. A working class guy with a street edge. He had a huge babyface run in him. But even still.....imo hes a top 5 promo ever. His smoky Mountain run is legendary.

Oh man, I haven't heard the name XPW in so long! I remember I used to watch that regiously late nights as a teenager, and they had that cool Metallica song from Mission: Impossible as their theme song, "I Disappear". The show was nuts but I've always been surprised nobody really talked about it. I'm so giddy it's getting an episode on Dark Side of the Ring! I never knew too much about it so this is going to be great.

This is one wrestler's death I don't care about. The guy is a violent, sadistic sociopath who uses the excuse of playing a character to hide the fact. Nevermind that he had deliberately injured people and even tried to get them killed when the business is about protecting your opponent first even when doing all the hardcore ultraviolent shit. Good riddance.

He should have been at that original One Night Stand.. That makes me kind of sad to think about.

New Jack's death was an odd experience for me because a few days before his death he quote tweeted one of my posts saying I don't understand why everyone gives him a break for all the things he did in the ring and his response wasn't positive. It's actually one of his last tweets before he died..

Not gonna lie, I turned natural born killaz on the other night in my house and went around breaking a bunch of shit! Kind of a shitbag of a human being, but RIP an original ECW legend

RIP New Jack ...... 🙏🏿

R.I.P New Jack He To Raw For The wwe.

A scaffold match is absolutely dangerous. It's not wrestling and it needs to be banned. I didn't watch WCW, but I think they did this more often than WWE. The only scaffold matches in the WWE that I remember (I didn't have cable) was Shane McMahon doing those dangerous 100ft jumps. They need to be done away with. It's not safe, the wrestlers look scared (as they should be, that thing with New Jack and Vic Grimes, was shaking throughout).

I’ve got a lot to say about this. Jerome Young what is a good dude. Attentive father, good cook, and quite a sense of humor. New Jack, the character Jerome Young lived and at all times he was working, was crazy. In every shoot interview and on Darkside he was working. The mass transit incident is overblown, no worse than what Hiro Matsuda did to Hogan‘s leg. And really for the same reason, young dude trying to get in the business who doesn’t know any respect. Two main differences are race and that the fans saw it. It was really no big deal. The cut clearly looks much worse than it actually was. It was just nasty because it bled so much. He might’ve needed a transfusion while he was at the ER getting stitched up. But let’s get real that’s a kid getting taught a lesson not an assault. If anyone is to blame it’s the father for allowing his son to get in that position. You heard New Jack’s version of the Vic Grimes story. I want to emphasize you got the character’s version of the story. Did Jerome actually have homicidal motives? That will always be one of the mysteries of wrestling. He is one of the best workers in the business because he got people to believe the real man is indistinguishable from the character. I’m going to take New Jack’s side on Hunter Red as well. The fact is Hunter what is essentially an untrained fan who shot in the match. He was throwing live rounds, a guy does have the right to defend himself - that doesn’t change because you are in a wrestling ring.

Why are all these podcasts calling new Jack's history "complicated", he was a wrestler who worked stiff, nothing too complicated about that

Was always a huge New Jack fan cause the dude was just real and always crazy. One of my favorite moments is him just giving Gypsy Joe one of the worse beatdowns I've ever seen

New Jack is a legend.

respect to Jerome Young no doubt. I certainly do feel for his son that he denied. But I find people who say new jack deserves pain or no respect to be absolutely disrespectful. Because as much as many people in this world treat us like trash. We are all in this together. I truly wish him nothing but peace in heaven. While sending condolences to his wife. The fact that people will take his actions and make him out to be a true villain sickens me. R.i.P to the original gangsta

He tried to kill Vic grimes

The irony of his podcast being named The Safe Space lol

9:47 Solomonster, I love ya! Thank you!💕✨

We can't forget the great dish that New Jack knew how to cook....... SPAGHETTI!

So, I'm 40 now. So, I was the main demographic of the attitude era. Well every era up until PG rated, CRAP!!! I loved New Jack back then and he was always an AMAZING interview but looking at his antics as anything but a 17-23 year old it's like...that dude was FUCKING psychotic!!!

he did not hate him in his later life post 2010 he give both cornette and paul credit and was cool with both infect in a interview we say he only really has 3 or so numbers of people in the business paul e was one of the so i thick he would have been ok with pauls video

If New Jack Got convicted and went to Prison he would probably still alive. Yet with his attitude he would've probably started a Riot in a Prison Yard or Messhall. I could envision Police/Prison Guards stomping him to an oblivion.

11:07 Tryout Match

I'm honestly surprised that WWE put out any statement beyond "this man does not represent us."

New Jack vs Stone Cold in The Attitude Era; what could've been.

New Jack is the real Black Panther

His hardcore matches may have been fun to watch in the past but let's face it: New Jack is a POS. The fact that he's willing to harm someone to the point of death is just sickening.

you can approach it from a few angles. he is inspirational for fighting racial stereotypes. (even tho gangsta is one, he had a line he drew that other wrestlers didn't.), and giving relatively more honest interviews like about vince's corruption. and he's a cautionary tale about the excesses in extreme/hardcore wrestling, both in what the violence did to his body, and how it stunted his career when ECW went to WWE. His reputation as the crazy violent one made him an easy scapegoat. But he had talent, not doubt about that. Both in not dying in those stunts and in his promotional skills.

New jack confirmed John cena storyline on Hannibal channel

Fuck the antics! I love you New Jack!!!

NEW JACK!!

(RIP)

I dont wanna joke about it but for as awful as the chris Benoit murders were I can only imagine new jack committing murder on live television he takes a knife out mid way through the match and starts trying to gut a fool live on tv, I believe new jack in wwe would've ended wwe and pro wrestling or set it down a dark path because hes probably one of the few men crazy enough to do it

New Jack was a lot of things but boring wasn't one of them.

Dude was a psychopath who would have been in jail if he didn’t wrestle .

Jim Cornetto should have Eulogized New Jack!!!

RIP you crazy, entertaining SOB lol

I was never a fan and I didn't really find him talented but His interviews were interesting.

Damn really new jack never came to wwe? I thought he came for a bit

Why did New Jack hate Heyman was it over payment ?

I genuinely hated New jack, he was a terrible human being imo and didn't show any redeeming qualities in his latter years for me to change my mind, can't really say I'm sad but can't be happy over him dying. That being said, I understand if people miss him or pay tribute to him. Can't deny he left a huge impact on the industry tho.

From the Mass Transit incident, first off all what was his father even thinking of letting him wrestle at ECW or just wrestle at all?

One the best to ever do it! Just a crazy nigga in life bro R.I.P to a real one

New Jack Was a Bad guy, the World is better Off with Out him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing complicated about jack Blood Violence Heat Drugs Ring rats Entrepreneur Chill guy outside of wrestling Dedication despite injury Rip jerome

I’m sorry he’s dead, but he was a horrible person during his lifetime. He has the best shoot interviews though.

Say what you want about new Jack but at the end of the day he was a man's man not to mention he stood on his own two feet and he never kissed anyone's ass. Was those events that she did such as the mass transit incident were him being provoked

Rip New Jack