10 Wrestlers Who Were Notoriously Difficult To Work With

4. New Jack

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"Difficult" is a euphemism. New Jack wasn't so much difficult to work with as he was a mortal danger to certain opponents.

The over-eager minor chancer Erich Kulas wanted New Jack to give him some "colour" to put him over in the disturbing 'Mass Transit Incident' of November 1996. He was there to put New Jack over, not that he should have been there in the first instance. Jack, with a sociopathic relish, met that request by opening up Kulas' forehead - and arteries - with a surgical scalpel.

New Jack also contrived to make a 40-feet high scaffold bump onto several wooden tables (with sharp metal legs) even more dangerous by simply over-shooting his trajectory in retribution for the assorted injuries he suffered at ECW Living Dangerously 2000. He wanted, apparently, to murder Vic Grimes.

New Jack, completing an unholy trinity, did equally well not to murder the then-69 year-old hardcore wrestling pioneer Gypsy Joe in 2003. This crime was in retribution for Joe laying it in a bit stiff. Well, he punched him square in the face full-force, which formally classifies Joe as the most batsh*t insane wrestler in all of recorded history.

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