10 Most Badass Wrestlers On The Planet Today
4. New Jack
As was the case with Yoshiko, New Jack walks a fine line between badass and just plain evil. The real life Jerome Young is one of the most infamous wrestlers in the industry’s history – not for his in-ring prowess or charisma, but for his propensity to butcher and brutalise his opponents with no hesitation.
In 2004, he was charged with aggravated assault for pulling a knife on another wrestler, and stabbing him nine times. Several years earlier, saw trouble again for pushing Vic Grimes off some scaffolding, with Grimes missing the majority of the tables placed between the scaffold and the ring. New Jack insists that he intentionally pushed Grimes too hard, as revenge for a similar stunt he’d pulled two years earlier, in which New Jack was left with brain damage and blindness in his right eye.
His most infamous encounter is undoubtedly the ‘Mass Transit Incident’, where New Jack beat up the untrained Eric Kulas so badly that he wound up needing fifty stiches. Kulas died several years later during gastric bypass surgery, and his parents blame New Jack’s actions for causing the eating disorder that ultimately led to his death.
As willing and able to dish out as much pain as he takes, it might not be right to call New Jack a ‘badass’ in the positive sense, but calling him anything else would probably be a bad idea.