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New Jack

Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist

New Jack, Jason Norman (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7977-8 (ISBN)

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For the first time, the man born Jerome Young opens up about how he became one of the stars who enabled Extreme Championship Wrestling to make a permanent mark on the professional landscape. This memoir reveals the perspective of the man at the centre of it all and includes new disclosures about infamous incidents.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	20 photos, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
ISBN-10	1-4766-7977-0 / 1476679770
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7977-8 / 9781476679778
Zustand	Neuware