10 Darkest YouTube Wrestling Videos

1. New Jack Attempts To Murder Vic Grimes

There's history behind this one. Not justification, but history.

At ECW Living Dangerously 1999, New Jack and Vic Grimes had planned a spot which would have seen both men take a fall from some scaffolding onto the relative safety of some tables below. According to Jack, Grimes was hesitant. Watching the match back now, you can see Grimes look warily at the floor. The timing was off when both men made the jump. Jack dropped vertically, feet first, badly injuring his ankle in the process. Grimes for his part flips over, cushioning his blow on Jack's skull.

Suffering brain damage as a result, New Jack would exact his revenge years later when their paths crossed again in ECW knock-off Xtreme Pro Wrestling.

Jack has mentioned in several subsequent shoot videos that his intention was to actually kill Grimes by throwing his mammoth frame past the tower of tables and into the turnbuckle. Luckily for him, he rebounded from the ropes back into the stack, merely breaking his leg.

Jack in his own way protects his character in those shoots, but it's easy to see from his wild chest-beating celebration that he was more than happy at the sight of Grimes bouncing sickeningly around the ring.

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