10 Wrestling Matches So Brutal Promoters STOPPED Them Early

4. New Jack vs. Gypsy Joe (Independents)

A match being stopped in WWE widely differs from matches being cancelled midway though on the independent scene. WWE follows every medical protocol in the book. Elsewhere, it can take a major incident to cut short a match, no more evident than when the Natural Born Killa and ECW alumni New Jack ‘wrestled’ 72-year-old wrestling-journeyman Gypsy Joe in a hardcore match held in front of a meagre and minuscule crowd.

Jack’s claimed in interviews Joe no-sold most of his offence as well as took liberties with him by head butting him hard on the nose, so Jack, in return, recklessly and ruthlessly beat on him, which is even painful to watch. Jack beat him with a chain and chairs and a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, as well as anything else he could get his hands on, brutalising the elderly man.

The startled and shocked promoters for the event urgently rang the bell calling for the match to be over as soon as possible as the crowd heavily turned on New Jack, ending in a no-contest.