10 Wrestling Moments That Literally Made You Jump
2. New Jack Nearly Kills Vic Grimes
Proper, hands-to-mouth, shrieking, nope nope nope is he actually dead sh*t here.
Jesus Christ. It looks like something from Faces Of Death.
The story goes like this: New Jack, a few years removed from a botched balcony bump - in which he was crushed underneath Vic Grimes' weight and suffered brain damage - sought revenge. There was no ECW in which to do it, but there was XPW: an ostensible tribute promotion ran by an actual mud-show element in Rob Black with no corporate ties nor pretence of functioning as a responsible major league.
New Jack worked Grimes again to no controversy two months after the original incident at Hardcore Heaven. This creates a hole in the story, and is consistent with the idea that New Jack was more of a worker than he allowed his reputation to convey. Then again, he was prone to legit carving people up, so who the f*ck knows.
Analysing the footage is equally difficult to draw a conclusion, because New Jack was always more of an awesome presence than a worker of any renown at all. Perhaps he just overshot the aim, and was happy to cultivate the myth that followed it.
But up in the rafters, you can make him out turning and walking immediately away, not concerned at all to see whether Grimes moved after repelling against the ropes.