Moments in Wrestling Idiocacy

[Michael Myers]

As an opposite to this thread...

Moments in Wrestling Excellence...

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...we present Moments in Wrestling Idiocacy....

 

[PGen98]

 

[Michael Myers]

New ways to enter the ring: sliding under the ring.

 

[PGen98]

New ways to enter the ring: sliding under the ring.

Turns out not to work, apparently

 

[Michael Myers]

Turns out not to work, apparently

Could be worse.... *walks over to @Nebulous*

 

[PGen98]

 

[Michael Myers]

Jim Ross: "There goes Lita, jerking Edge off...the ladder!"

 

[Michael Myers]

 

[Michael Myers]

I like Jim Cornette, but damn he can people off easily....

 

[PGen98]

I like Jim Cornette, but damn he can people off easily....

Almost like he arrives, raises hell and then leaves...

 

[Michael Myers]

Almost like he arrives, raises hell and then leaves...

 

[PGen98]

Luke Warm Jim Cornette

 

[Michael Myers]

Continuing the Jim Cornette theme....

 

[Michael Myers]

One of the most infamous, controversial and shocking moments in Pro Wrestling history, this is the story of New Jack and The Mass Transit incident.

The Mass Transit Incident occured in an ECW house show in November 1996. Erich Kulas managed to talk his way into a match with New Jack and Mustafa, known in ECW as The Gangstas. What Paul Heyman didn't know though, was Erich was not old enough to wrestle and had no proper wrestling experience. What happened in the match was brutal, and it resulted in court trials, hospital visits, and even the possibility of the first ECW PPV being pulled by providers.

The Mass Transit incident can easily be described as one of the darkest days in wrestling history.

 

[PGen98]

No one should step into the ring with New Jack, of any experience level...

 

[Michael Myers]

No one should step into the ring with New Jack, of any experience level...

There are three events in wrestling that any wrestling fans likely spit at the ground over....
(1) Chris Benoit
(2) Owen Hart's death
(3) the Mass Transit incident

W/regards to Mass Transit, there are three people at fault here....
(1) Eric Kulas, for lying about his age
(2) Eric's father, for egging him into doing it
(3) New Jack for...well, being New Jack
(4) ECW, for letting it go on

 

[PGen98]

There are three events in wrestling that any wrestling fans likely spit at the ground over....
(1) Chris Benoit
(2) Owen Hart's death
(3) the Mass Transit incident

Yeah, I hear about all three consistently, it's quite grating.

W/regards to Mass Transit, there are three people at fault here....
(1) Eric Kulas, for lying about his age
(2) Eric's father, for egging him into doing it
(3) New Jack for...well, being New Jack
(4) ECW, for letting it go on

Agreed, on all four points. He should never have had the chance to get anywhere near a ring. Even with a no show and someone claiming to be a skilled wrestler, you don't roll the dice, that's your promotion on the line. So stupid. And against New Jack?!? Are you stupid?!?

 

[Michael Myers]

And against New Jack?!?

New Jack was...legitimately psycho.

New Jack (Wrestling) - TV Tropes

"AND HERE COMES NEW JACK!" Jerome Young (January 3, 1963 – May 14, 2021), better known as New Jack, was an American Professional Wrestler from Atlanta, GA. He is said to have been a bounty hunter before becoming a professional wrestler, …

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New Jack has been at the centre of some truly stomach-churning incidents in wrestling, such as: the Mass Transit Incident where he mangled Eric Kulas, a teenager who managed to get into a tag team match involving New Jack by lying about his age and falsely claiming he was a trained wrestler; the ECW Living Dangerously 2000 accident (a.k.a. the Danbury Fall) where he and Vic Grimes botched a stunt and fell 20 ft onto concrete ( With New Jack shooting brain fluid out his nose and losing sight in one eye.), a 2003 match with one Gypsy Joe that devolved into a real-life brawl when Joe refused to sell Jack's moves (bad idea); and, in 2004, shanking another wrestler in the middle of a match for "stiff shot"-ing him (ie. hitting him too hard, rather than fake-hard)... and the list goes on. He also claims that WWE Diva Tammy Lynn Sytch approached him to help assassinate her boyfriend, amongst other lurid stories.

 

[Michael Myers]

Then there was....the Plane Ride From Hell.

 

[PGen98]

Oh absolutely, the guy's certifiable! Should never have been near a ring!

Also, that plane ride, ugh. Cringe!