Beyond the Mat Documentary 2000 1 hr 42 min English audio R CC Buy or rent It's supposed to be fun. All Rights Reserved. I wish Jake all the best. New Jack: I ain't a forty-hour motherf***er, man. Beyond the Mat Yoga. In 1968, when he was five years old, he and his siblings witnessed his father stab his mother multiple times after he found out she had been cheating on him with other men. Therrell High School in Atlanta. It focuses on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) during its rise in popularity, and many other independent wrestlers and organizations. At WrestleCon 2013, Roberts announced his desire to return to WWE as a participant in Royal Rumble 2014, which did not happen. In other words, the Gangstas had been rough-and-tumble, but they werent yet extreme. CM Punk is Back? According to various wrestling news reports, as well as his own MySpace page, Roberts was placed in a 14-week voluntary rehab program by WWE as of December 10, 2007. [citation needed], On the October 22 episode of ECW on TNN, Jack received his first opportunity for the World Heavyweight Championship against Mike Awesome but failed to win the title. [47], On April 16, 2016, New Jack appeared in and wrestled for Money Mark Productions, facing Brad Cash in Lewisburg, Tennessee. In June 2011, Blaustein undertook an extensive one-hour interview on Review a Wai with John Pollock, in which he discussed the problems of putting the documentary together with Vince McMahon's blessing. It had happened before, and I was pretty sure it would end soon, at least for the time being. Lastly, Roberts is a wrestler whose height of popularity was in the 1980s. He worked the ECW reunion show, Hardcore Homecoming, on June 10, 2005, as well as competing on the "Extreme Reunion" tour from September 15 to 16. Join Mick Foley, Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Terry Funk for a no-holds-barred look into the wild world of professional wrestling. [32] Jack was out of action for the next few months until he returned to ECW at Heat Wave, where he attacked Dudley Boyz with weapons from a shopping cart. [14][15], New Jack was involved in the Mass Transit Incident on November 23, 1996, in Revere, Massachusetts. Blaustein decided to make a documentary about professional wrestling after being outed as a professional wrestling fan. [13] Gangstas successfully defended the title against teams such as Samoan Gangsta Party, The Eliminators and Rob Van Dam and Sabu throughout the year. Blaustein focuses on three famous wrestlers, one at the height of his career (Mick Foley, aka "Mankind"), one contemplating retirement (Terry Funk) and one at a career low (Jake "The Snake" Roberts). In 2004, Roberts faced a charge of "causing unnecessary suffering" after his snake, "Damien", was allowed to starve to death in the garage of his London Colney home. [21] Mustafa Saed left ECW after the title win, leading to the dissolution of Gangstas. Director Van M. Pham Writer Erik Martinez Stars John Wynn Mark Hapka Sara Fletcher See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist Videos 2 Trailer 2:04 If we just badmouthed white people, the Black communities might have gotten behind us, gotten all radicalized, and even agreed with how ticked we sounded, and that could have caused some problems, New Jack explained. "[5], After viewing the film, McMahon removed all advertising for it from WWF broadcasts. The Kings Playoff Drought Is Over. Funk's sometime in-ring rival, Foley, is profiled next. [52] New Jack was featured in the 1999 wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. We see a guy with no real discernible skills other than being a big strong idiot who can puke on command, The Droz, follow the path many a former professional football player has followed into the WWF (former Canadian Football player The Rock, for example) only to end up quadriplegic. Parents say. [5] His original budget was $500,000, funded by the company Imagine. Beyond the Mat is a 1999 American documentary film directed, written, produced and narrated by Barry W. Blaustein. [6] Gangstas made their ECW in-ring debut at Hardcore Heaven by competing against Public Enemy in a losing effort. [22], The departure of Mustafa Saed and Perry Saturn from ECW led New Jack to form a new tag team with former Eliminator John Kronus called The Gangstanators on August 21, 1997, by defeating The Dudley Boyz. The promoter of the event, Mr. Maurice Williams, claims the event was never intended to be hardcore. He was best known for his time with Extreme Championship Wrestling . They werent afraid to bleed or use foreign objects, but they didnt do as much of that as they later would, and what they did in this regard fit into the long legacy of blood-and-guts Southern wrestling. "[44], In October 2004, New Jack, wrestling for Thunder Wrestling Federation, was scheduled to fight fellow wrestler William Jason Lane at an event near Jacksonville, Florida. New Jack, 1963-2021 - The Ringer Fights Sports New Jack Bled for His Fame The hardest of hardcore wrestlers from the sport's most violent era never struggled to make anything look real,. Mere seconds before the jump, Grimes became reluctant to take this very risky bump, and New Jack, annoyed with Grimes's reluctance (because of the live broadcast they had no time to improvise) dragged Grimes down with him after a count of three, and Grimes awkwardly fell half a second after Jack instead of falling together in the safest fashion. In the course of the film, Roberts is shown attempting to reconcile with his daughter and being interviewed after reportedly smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room (the act is not shown on camera), as well as musing aloud about his increasingly illicit sexual dalliances while traveling.[6]. [45] New Jack claimed that the two met prior to the match and agreed to use a "piece of metal" to inflict injury. He returned to ECW on the September 22 episode of ECW on TNN, where he rescued Spike Dudley from an assault by Justin Credible and Rhino but was double teamed by the two. In a tweet just hours after the FBI arrested Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, Greene, R-Ga., praised his alleged actions and implied President Joe Biden was "the real enemy." New Jack, the 52-year-old balcony-diving, weapons-wielding architect of pain, is retired and living with no regrets about the mayhem he caused by Tom Breihan on August 18, 2015 ne night in 1996, an 18-year-old kid named Erich Kulas walked into an Extreme Championship Wrestling show in Revere, Massachusetts, hoping to find work for the night. Paychecks stopped clearing, and Heyman was directing the creativity he had once used to develop story lines and matches toward the companys exit strategy. [2], In June 1995, The Gangstas joined the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion, debuting for the promotion as a villainous team by attacking The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) at Barbed Wire, Hoodies and Chokeslams on June 17, 1995. [35] At the 2000 Guilty as Charged pay-per-view, Jack lost a singles match to Angel due to interference by Da Baldies. 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New Jack hurt you, and then you hurt him. Clips of Foley with his wife and children are spliced with the clips of him risking his body for the sport. [4] Around the age of fifteen, Young and his friends began robbing local stores, such as gas stations, sporting goods stores, and jewellery stores. In both cases, Young wrote in his autobiography, the police swept the incidents under the rug because nobody was going to put a Black man in jail for hurting a Black woman., The shooting and stabbing stood out as moments of extraordinary abuse flaring up along an interminable stretch of routine conflict. New Jack never liked losing matches without a good reason, whether in a major company or on the indies, so he went back into business for himself, and would continue that way until his in-ring career wound down in the late 2000s. Here are the six biggest takeaways from Hurtss new contract, and what it might mean for Lamar Jackson and the next wave of QBs looking to cash in. In 2016, he collapsed while walking home from a wrestling event, and doctors found blood clots throughout his legs and back. He loved a lot of you very much, and youll never know how much I appreciate the love, said the post which was also shared on New Jacks Facebook page. Like its East Coast competitor Combat Zone Wrestling, which would book New Jack a few years later, XPW offered loads of bloody, ECW-inspired hardcore mayhem. [61] In 2012, Young criticized Abdullah The Butcher for using dirty blades on wrestlers and stating that Young was HIV positive. Transcend. This resulted in the best microphone and storytelling work of New Jacks career. [19] Kulas died on May 12, 2002, at the age of 22 due to complications from gastric bypass surgery. Jennifer Young wrote Friday, For all the outpouring of love from family, friends, and fans- Im totally blown away. The story of Bad News Brown aka Bad News Allen aka Allen Coage. Around that same year, when Young was walking home from a wrestling event, he collapsed, and doctors found blood clots throughout his legs, back, and lungs, saying "With the heart trouble I already had, I could feel myself getting close to the final bell". [22] He was announced as the second entrant of WWE's 2014 Hall of Fame Class. Which really sucks because I've been looking foward to owning this figure for a few years now. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast [19] In addition, he appeared in the television series Early Edition on May 6, 2000, as a biker in the episode "Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter". The story, like Erich Kulass before it, had a few additional twists and turns. Dec 22, 2021. Jerome Young (January 3, 1963 - May 14, 2021) was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name New Jack. Published They thrived off New Jack's hot promos and pushed buttons related to the OJ. New Jack - one of ECW's most popular antiheroes - held the sport's World Tag Team Championships several times. [18][19] This is documented in the film The Resurrection of Jake the Snake. There, Young had a measure of success in football, which lead to him attending Clark Atlanta University. Smooth and Sammy the Silk) made their ECW debut by attacking Gangstas. As soon as ECW closed its doors, New Jack began working dates for the California-based Xtreme Pro Wrestling. Select movie quality . Funk went on to participate in several more retirement matches, the most recent on September 22, 2017, at age 73. R. HD SD. In October, New Jack made an appearance at the Crushed 2 wrestling event in Minneapolis, where he interfered in a match between Eugene and Tommy Lee Curtis. Now he is a crack cocaine addict, and estranged from his daughter. This was done, according to Jack, over a grudge based on Grimes not contacting him when he was recovering from his injuries after their fall in Danbury. New Jack began dragging in a garbage can full of weapons and throwing it into the ring as a sort of ultra-violent trash bag. That changed for good in mid-1995, when they left Smoky Mountain to join Paul Heymans Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion. appreciated. Details were not announced. [citation needed], New Jack's feud with The Dudley Boyz continued in 1999 as he teamed with Spike Dudley to lose to them at Guilty as Charged. on the May 21 NWA-TNA, New Jack and Shark Boy lost to Ron Killings and Don Harris in an Anarchy Alliance tag match. New Jack has claimed that he only stabbed Lane nine times. Newspaper articles from the time show New Jack continuing to excel on defense and special teamsblocking punts, intercepting passes, and returning kicks. He wrote that he didnt like how the dives came to be associated with backyard wrestling antics, since he had spent many years as a dues-paying wrestler before he began doing them. He remained with the company until the end of the summer. Professional wrestler Jerome Young, best known as New Jack. As the final maneuver of the match, Jack shocked Grimes with a taser before throwing him from the scaffold and sending him crashing to the ring 40 feet below; there were over twelve tables stacked on top of each other in the ring to break the fall, of which Grimes missed all but two and came within a foot of missing the ring completely, which could have killed him. Blaustein also revealed that after the first viewing, it was Linda McMahon who was more upset than Vince, due to the documentary's portrayal of the company, and a lack of emphasis on the "fun" in professional wrestling. New Jack's partner was Mustafa Saed. The figure is kinda crappy by Japanese figure standards, the paint job is pretty sloppy, the belt is terrible and I can't even tell what fed it is supposed to be from, the Beyond the Mat logo on the package and shirt wasn't the one used for the movie which makes . To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. These days the Jack Knife is not an exercise we typically give to a new student (the student in the film was not an athlete), so that in itself is worth pointing out. New Jack even cut his own arm so deeply he had to go to the hospital. Now,. It's not supposed to be real. Not really a Black mans typical pastime, but if he could mess around once in a while, I could too, New Jack wrote. The two old foes fought their way up a 40-foot scaffold before New Jack withdrew the Taser from his pants and drove it into Grimess body several times, stunning him before he unceremoniously dumped him off the scaffold. Download Magnet. [27], In November 2017, Stamp was posthumously inducted into the Amarillo Pioneer Hall of Fame by the local Amarillo Pioneer newspaper.[28]. [67], After retiring, Young regularly used prescribed painkillers to help with the pain from various injuries he sustained during his career. "[6], Beyond the Mat was released in theaters in the United States in March 2000. His father, from whom New Jack claimed to have inherited a habit for carrying weapons and a predisposition for misusing alcohol, stabbed his mother a half-dozen times on one occasion and then shot her in the leg on another. The highlight of New Jacks XPW tenure, as he would explain in the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore and reaffirm in both his autobiography and the Vice Dark Side of the Ring episode about him, was that it gave him a chance to exact revenge on Vic Grimes for messing up the scaffold spot at Living Dangerously 2000. [citation needed], Their first encounter was at November to Remember, where Jack and the Freaks lost to Da Baldies in a handicap match. Beyond the Mat is a 1999 American documentary film directed, written, produced and narrated by Barry W. Blaustein. [2] Although he was once one of the more famous wrestlers in America, performing in front of tens of thousands of fans, he is now wrestling in small-town venues. Though New Jack achieved a measure of success in Memphis, briefly holding the territorys tag titles with Frear, he grew to detest Lawler after claiming to overhear the King use a racial epithet to refer to future WWE Hall of Famer Jacqueline during a mud-wrestling matchanimosity that lingered into 2018 when New Jack posted on Twitter that he hoped Lawler would soon follow his recently-deceased son Brian Christopher, whom he also disliked. There were stacks of tables on the mat that he thought would break his fall, but I was trying to throw him past them, New Jack wrote. 720p. Purchase Beyond the Mat on digital and stream instantly or download offline. [19] Tommy Dreamer revealed that when he tried to book Young for his House of Hardcore promotion, Young said he was in poor health and often bedridden due to his heart problems and failing vision. "[65] Young later commented on a Facebook live video: "I would just like to say to you little faggot motherfucker: you know who you are and you're not my son, you little bitch. New Jack, who was in the midst of a period in which he abused alcohol and relied on cocaine to get through his matches, bristled at Kulass lack of respect. [1] Foley, however, did appear on Larry King Live with Blaustein to help promote the film. [29] At Crossing the Line '99, Jack brought out his former Gangstas tag team partner Mustafa Saed to compete against Dudley Boyz but Mustafa turned on Jack by smashing a guitar on his head and revealed himself to be the mysterious benefactor of Dudleys, who wanted to run The Public Enemy and New Jack out of ECW. New Jack understood the complicated nature of his legacy. Don't let people miss on a great quote from the "Beyond the Mat" movie - add it here! [16] Kulas requested that New Jack "blade" him during the match, but the incision was made incorrectly, causing excessive bleeding. It was some of the easiest money Id ever made, he recalled. Uncover their secrets and their nightmares. He worked as a bounty hunter, chasing down individuals who had skipped bail, and occasionally used the legitimate practice of catching fugitives as cover for his other part-time hustle: transporting cocaine intended for resale. The wrestling website PWInsider.com, who spoke to the wrestlers wife, reports Young died following a heart attack. [30] As a result, Jack began a rivalry with Mustafa, which culminated in a match between the two at Living Dangerously, which Jack won. He has problems with reality. [8] At CyberSlam Gangstas were scheduled to compete in a match against The Headhunters but Jack was imprisoned in Atlanta and Mustafa was attacked by The Headhunters. Stings Role in AEW Vs. WWE, Middle Riddles Return, and Troys a Real Heel, The Stakes for Jake Paul Vs. Nate Diaz, Predicting Israel Adesanyas Next Fight, and Arnold Allens Big Test, Jeff Hardy Returns, Plus Trish Stratus Turns Heel, Roman Reignss Title Run Is on a Different Level (Featuring Stat Guy Greg), How American Cities Can Avoid the Urban Doom Loop, The Heartbreaking Ralph Yarl Situation and the Ghost of Freakniks Past, Ashy Gets His Ton, a World XV and Prem Top Four Heats Up. Referees called off the match, and New Jack disappeared from the air for many months. [25], In 2016, Stamp announced that his cancer had returned. Says All-Star guard DeAaron Fox: "We want to be championship contenders year in and year out. ", Eleven Thoughts and Questions From the NBA Playoff Openers. 2023 Cable News Network. At Fight the Power, Samoan Gangstas Party (L.A. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. He also thought it was ironic how ECW was seen as a violent and dangerous promotion where drug use was encouraged, yet there was only one person who died during Young's five-year tenure with the company, whereas WWE was "averaging three (deaths) a year." Two less we got to worry about!, But New Jacks visceral critique didnt stop there. [55] The hour-long episode debuted on Vice on March 31, 2020. Transform. RALEIGH, N.C. At the first time of asking, at least, Mathew Barzal was not a magic fix-it-all solution for the Islanders' power play. New Jack then pulled out a metal blade from his camouflage wrestling attire, and stabbed Lane multiple times in the head. The film was originally released in U.S. theaters in March 2000, and later on VHS and DVD. About six months later, he had introduced the aforementioned 187 chairdrop finisher in a match against wrestler Chad Austin during which he broke Austins leg because Austin treated him rudely while they laid out the match. In the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore and the 2020 episode of Dark Side of the Ring centred around him, Jack claimed that this was a break from the script, and his intentions were to throw Grimes so hard that he would fall head-first onto the steel turnbuckle and be killed. However, Art O'Donnell, a writer for WrestleCrap, disputes this, citing Jack's apparent concern for Grimes' safety in a previous match for XPW and how intentional the spot seemed. After being tossed off the top of a cage by The Undertaker during their infamous Hell In A Cell. Public Enemy departed ECW after the event, thus ending the rivalry. In 2013, Scott Hall joined Roberts' rehabilitative efforts by also moving into Page's home, which has been nicknamed the "accountability crib". 951.3 MB. The Gangstas arrival on the Smoky Mountain scene evoked recent memories of the Rodney King and Reginald Denny assaults, as well as the 1992 Los Angeles riots more generallythey appeared, supposedly from South Central Los Angeles, wearing Oakland Raiders gear and backed by bodyguard Accie Connor (future WWF Intercontinental and European champion DLo Brown) and a posse of Black extras who surrounded the ring with them, and gave beloved, mullet-sporting good guy Ricky Morton a beatdown with nightsticks. [46] In 2012, New Jack competed for Extreme Rising and CZW. Did you encounter any technical issues? "Beyond the Mat," Barry Blaustein's honest, intimate, revealing, highly entertaining, and critically acclaimed behind-the-scenes look at wrestling, takes viewers beyond the ring and . Jack was told "Gypsy Joe is as tough as leather", and Jack replied that he was not going to lose dollar value from this match and would not have a comedy or gimmick match- but that he would kill Joe in this match. This by itself was nothing new, dating back to Jerry Lawler and Wayne Honky Tonk Man Farriss Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl in 1979 and already part of many ECW matches. In spite of all that, Young retained a fondness for his fathera pretty cool guy who would die of a heart attack when the wrestler was 5as well as a disdain for his mother that he carried forward into the present. A tale about two best friends, an uncensored look into the perilous world of high school wrestling, and the story of a teen who overcomes self doubt to find his true place.

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