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[[caption-width-right:260: Maybe Kulas should have thought this through...]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eric Kulas wanted to serve as a {{Jobber}} for ECW, and got in despite not having enough training or [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld even being a legal adult]]. Before the match, he had asked an irritated New Jack to blade him, [[ExactWords without specifying how or how much]]. It's easy to see how much of the blame for the incident is targeted directly at him.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eric Kulas wanted to serve as a {{Jobber}} for ECW, and got in despite not having enough training or [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld [[Really17YearsOld even being a legal adult]]. Before the match, he had asked an irritated New Jack to blade him, [[ExactWords without specifying how or how much]]. It's easy to see how much of the blame for the incident is targeted directly at him.



* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Eric Kulas is a textbook example of [[DeconstructedTrope how this could go horribly wrong]].

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* FatBastard: Mass Transit was 300 lbs, and an asshole heel who flipped off the crowd.

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* PermissiveParents: The incident would have never happened if Kulas's father had put his foot down about his son getting into the ring without proper training.



* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite being ''less'' than a {{Jobber}} due to having no wrestling training at all, Eric Kulas acted incredibly arrogant in the lead-up to the match, which came back to bite him when it came time for New Jack to blade him.

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* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite being ''less'' than a {{Jobber}} due to having no wrestling training at all, Eric Kulas acted incredibly arrogant in the lead-up to the match, (which included lighting a cigarette in front of the famously nicotine-adverse Wrestling/{{Tazz}}) which came back to bite him when it came time for New Jack to blade him.
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* FatBastard: Eric Kulas was 300 lbs of lard, and acted like an asshole.
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* FatBastard: Eric Kulas was 300 lbs of lard, and acted like an asshole.
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* TooDumbToLive: Eric Kulas, for lying about his age, lying about being a trained wrestler, and ''asking'' New Jack to blade him. Which he did, with either an ''X-acto Knife'' or a surgical scalpel (depending on which version you hear).

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* TooDumbToLive: Eric Kulas, for lying about his age, lying about being a trained wrestler, and ''asking'' New Jack to blade him. Which he did, with either an ''X-acto Knife'' or a surgical scalpel (depending on which version you hear). Also Kulas' father, for ''backing up'' his son's lies, which makes him much less sympathetic later on when he's hysterically screaming about how his son is only 17 after having lied about it earlier.

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[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Transit_incident_(professional_wrestling) has more information on this incident.]] Kulas would later pass away on May 12, 2002 at just 22 years old due to complications from gastric bypass surgery.

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[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Transit_incident_(professional_wrestling) has more information on this incident.]] Kulas would later pass away on May 12, 2002 at just 22 years old due to complications from gastric bypass surgery.
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* MinorWithFakeID: Accordign to Heyman, Kulas falsified his ID.

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* MinorWithFakeID: Accordign According to Heyman, Kulas falsified his ID.



* PunnyName: The obese Kulas's gimmick was an overweight bus driver.

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* PunnyName: The name "Mass Transit" itself; the obese Kulas's gimmick was an overweight bus driver.
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* IRegretNothing: New Jack maintained this attitude towards the incident (and Kulas' later death due to complications from a gastric bypass surgery) in character, stating that Kulas was essentially acting too big for his britches and he ''did'' ask Jack to blade him, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so he bladed him.]] [[https://twitter.com/theOnlyNewJack/status/1392718169756913664 His final tweet]] before his death in May 2021 only drives this point home, even going so far as to say Kulas died because he "ate himself to death" and showing no remorse. Of course, how much of this was genuine and how much was purely {{Kayfabe}} will be a question for the ages, and it should be noted that Jack was caught on camera asking Kulas if he was alright after the infamous blading, and only continued the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown once it appeared Kulas was willing to continue.

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* IRegretNothing: New Jack maintained this attitude towards the incident (and Kulas' later death due to complications from a gastric bypass surgery) in character, stating that Kulas was essentially acting too big for his britches and he ''did'' ask Jack to blade him, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so he bladed him.]] [[https://twitter.com/theOnlyNewJack/status/1392718169756913664 His final tweet]] before his death in May 2021 only drives this point home, even going so far as to say Kulas died because he "ate himself to death" and showing no remorse. Of course, how much of this was genuine and how much was purely New Jack maintaining {{Kayfabe}} to in turn maintain his fearsome reputation will be a question for the ages, and it should be noted that Jack was caught on camera asking Kulas if he was alright after the infamous blading, and only continued the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown once it appeared Kulas was willing to continue.
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* IRegretNothing: New Jack maintains this attitude towards the incident (and Kulas' later death due to complications from a gastric bypass surgery) in character, stating that Kulas was essentially acting too big for his britches and he ''did'' ask Jack to blade him, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so he bladed him.]] [[https://twitter.com/theOnlyNewJack/status/1392718169756913664 His final tweet]] before his death in May 2021 only drives this point home, even going so far as to say Kulas died because he "ate himself to death" and showing no remorse. Of course, how much of this was genuine and how much was purely {{Kayfabe}} will be a question for the ages, and it should be noted that Jack was caught on camera asking Kulas if he was alright after the infamous blading, and only continued the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown once it appeared Kulas was willing to continue.

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* IRegretNothing: New Jack maintains maintained this attitude towards the incident (and Kulas' later death due to complications from a gastric bypass surgery) in character, stating that Kulas was essentially acting too big for his britches and he ''did'' ask Jack to blade him, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so he bladed him.]] [[https://twitter.com/theOnlyNewJack/status/1392718169756913664 His final tweet]] before his death in May 2021 only drives this point home, even going so far as to say Kulas died because he "ate himself to death" and showing no remorse. Of course, how much of this was genuine and how much was purely {{Kayfabe}} will be a question for the ages, and it should be noted that Jack was caught on camera asking Kulas if he was alright after the infamous blading, and only continued the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown once it appeared Kulas was willing to continue.
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* IRegretNothing: New Jack maintains this attitude towards the incident (and Kulas' later death due to complications from a gastric bypass surgery) in character, stating that Kulas was essentially acting too big for his britches and he ''did'' ask Jack to blade him, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so he bladed him.]] [[https://twitter.com/theOnlyNewJack/status/1392718169756913664 His final tweet]] before his death in May 2021 only drives this point home, even going so far as to say Kulas died because he "ate himself to death" and showing no remorse. Of course, how much of this was genuine and how much was purely {{Kayfabe}} will be a question for the ages, and it should be noted that Jack was caught on camera asking Kulas if he was alright after the infamous blading, and only continued the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown once it appeared Kulas was willing to continue.
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* MinorWithFakeID: Accordign to Heyman, Kulas falsified his ID.

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