10 Wrestlers With The Most Dangerous Auras Ever

6. New Jack

New Jack
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New Jack in the context of Smoky Mountain Wrestling was something else.

The heat he generated was enough to make Bully Ray himself think of the children. Leaning hard into what some of the Tennessee crowds all too obviously thought of him - literally, on the certain occasions he put his head in the snake pit and invited the abuse with a cocky grin, knowing they wouldn't do sh*t.

New Jack was such an intense promo, too. It was the perfect fusion of inflammatory content and threatening delivery which, in that specific context, made for a strain of tension that was as palpable as it was compelling as it was risky. Jack's pro-OJ promos made the atmosphere that bit more combustible.

Jack played with his aura to the detriment of what pro wrestling actually is in ECW with his mutilation of Mass Transit, but even when he was just throwing plunder in deeply basic garbage brawls, the tone he set didn't even need the contrast of the family-friendly WWF to feel dangerous.

His decline into a schlock merchant who did awful things post-ECW didn't exactly diminish his aura, but it did cheapen it. He wasn't just a troublesome affront to the working craft in his prime; in the early-to-mid-1990s, he grasped it as well as anyone.

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