10 Wrestlers Who Had No Business Being In The Ring

4. Mass Transit & New Jack

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Both wrestlers involved in the veritable, infamous crime scene of November 23, 1996 have been named here lest the title of the slide scan as carny victim-shaming.

Of course Erich Kulas had no business being in the ring; this was literally the case, since he was untrained and underage and lied to get in there. In general, this was as toxic and grim a match graphic as modern BritWres has spewed up in recent years because New Jack was by far the worst choice of opponent. He had no business being in there either, at least on that night. He was always capable of taking liberties, which he frequently indulged later in his career when he worked even more sh*tty environs than the Bingo Hall.

And if Paul Heyman wasn't to know that New Jack's career would end so dismally, he - in a grim extreme of his most famous promotional tactic - literally hid the negatives here by failing to corroborate the information handed to him. He was at fault, too, for throwing someone with no grasp of etiquette in there and just punning his gargantuan frame.

Kulas famously asked Jack to gig him, and an enthusiastic Jack flayed his forehead open in agreement.

The violence was as ugly and severe as it was pointless. There was no vigilante justice to impart because how many underage wrestlers were really going to volunteer to work ECW, and New Jack specifically?

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