New Jack

Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7977-8
Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 153 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 352 g

You may have cheered for New Jack. You may have booed him out of the building. You may have even feared him at times. But until now, you've never really known The Most Dangerous Man in Wrestling.

For the first time, the man born Jerome Young opens up about how he became one of the stars who enabled Extreme Championship Wrestling to make a permanent mark on the professional landscape. His crazed dives off balconies and scaffolds; his bloody, weapon-filled mat wars that trampled the line between reality and entertainment—this memoir reveals the perspective of the man at the center of them all and includes new disclosures about the infamous incidents with Mass Transit, Gypsy Joe, and the stabbing of a fellow wrestler in Florida. Beyond the gimmicks that united white supremacists and the NAACP against him and his fellow performers, New Jack candidly discusses the violence in his youth that nearly led him to a career in crime, his past as a bounty hunter, a near-fatal drug addiction, the last months of ECW, and his place in wrestling history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jack, New

Norman, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung

Über Autor(innen)

After starting his career in wrestling on a whim, Jerome "New Jack" Young plunged into the sports entertainment for over a quarter century, winning multiple titles in a career that took him all over the country, his greatest success coming in both singles and tag team action in Extreme Championship Wrestling for much of the 1990s. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

A former award-winning journalist and lifelong wrestling fan, Jason Norman teaches college English in southeastern Virginia.