Having made his name in Smoky Mountain Wrestling with a controversial gimmick based around being a gangster in the heart of Americas KKK belt, New Jack would go onto become one of the most extreme performers in the history of the most extreme promotion ECW. During this time he managed to court more controversy stemming from his love of innovating the extreme, and he even suffered legitimate brain damage and blindness in one eye while botching a scaffold dive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y56UtEt228#t=4m20s As interesting a guy as New Jack is he was no doubt problematic as well. The Mass Transit Incident is a perfect example of his instability and rage. In the build up to ECWs first PPV Barely Legal, New Jack was involved in a match against an obese 17 year old ringer named Eric Kulas or rather Mass Transit. Not only did he injure the youngster by beating the crap out of him using a variety of weapons, he then cut the boy open creating a torrent of blood within the ring, while his father screamed at ringside for the match to be over. The question of complicity from Kulas has been brought up and in fact New Jack was found not liable since Kulas had apparently asked New Jack to do the blade job. But regardless of how much Kulas wanted to be there, there is no question that New Jack went over the line (again). He went so far over the line in fact that the PPV Barely Legal was cancelled (until Paul Heyman managed to do everything within his power to resurrect it), tabloids jumped all over the story, and a lawsuit was launched. He may have come out the other side clean, but one night of New Jack's violence almost derailed ECW in its entirety.
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