10 Times ECW Was The Most Insane Wrestling Company In The World

7. Brain Damage And Blindness

In the desperate addiction to pushing the violent envelope, ECW often overstepped the mark and looked positively idiotic in the process. That New Jack was involved in many of these incidents is just about as coincidental as you’d like it to be. The Mass Transit incident is arguably the most notorious, but New Jack’s scaffold scuffle with Vic Grimes showed a desperate company running out of ideas, fast.

It wasn’t even a match. By 2000 ECW was running out of steam, handcuffed somewhat by their television deal and losing talent to WCW and WWF, as well as suffering ill-timed injuries that were almost certainly exacerbated by the brutality of the matches. The Living Dangerously pay-per-view in 2000 was plagued from the get-go.

Towards the end of the show, New Jack and Da Baldies got into a brawl, as they continued to feud over who was the most feared on the streets. Somehow, someway, the brawl led to New Jack and Vic Grimes duking it out on some scaffolding, only to fall off in a quite disgusting manner. Grimes landed on top of New Jack, causing serious injuries in the process.

The two went on to top this display of absolute idiocy a couple of years later, but this ECW stunt was further evidence that the company was running on empty, that the lines between controversy and complete stupidity had blurred beyond recognition.