History Wrestling / NewJack

* ImprovisedWeapon: Garbage can, {{chair|manOfTheBrawl}}, table, guitar, {{fork|Fencing}}, {{chain|Pain}}, vacuum cleaner, nightstick, loaf of bread, bus stop sign, telephone, staple gun, crutch, prosthetic leg, a UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, cord and all... The list never ends.

* PersonaNonGrata: In September 2006 while at an independent wrestling show, he was banned from the 2300 Arena [[note]] the former ECW Arena, known as the Alhambra Arena at the time[[/note]] after harassing a concession stand attendant as well as assaulting a ring crew member. The reason he did this? [[DisproportionateRetribution Because the attendant gave him 7 Up instead of Sprite as he ordered.]]

* DarkSheperd: New Jack was a borderline preacher in PWX and PWS, and surprisingly was preaching about the drawbacks of GarbageWrestling. However, New Jack was still more than willing to use garbage wrestling to prove his point, if reminding people he could and showing them how to wrestle properly did not get the point across.

* SaltAndPepper: While, following the Gangstas' split, he did team with a variety of white partners (Kronus, Little Wrestling/SpikeDudley, etc.), he subverted this, since, with the probable exception of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kronus]], his white partners generally tended to be the more reasonable half of the team.

* WeaponOfChoice: He'd use pretty much anything, but a folding chair was his first choice, most of the time.

* AngryBlackMan: Especially in SMW.

* BackgroundMusicOverride: In ECW at least, you knew that a match was going to be [[UpToEleven extra insane]] when his music started when he came out, and then ''looped until the match was over''.

* IHaveTheHighGround[=/=]DeathFromAbove: From the top rope, balconies, even a ''van''. More than once, he has set up for a balcony dive or from some other high place in an arena (to put his opponent through a table) and announcer Wrestling/JoeyStyles has said, "No way, not even New Jack is that crazy," and been proven wrong, since New Jack not only pulled off the dive from some impossible height or improbable angle, but was even able to get up from it.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/JimCornette, Wrestling/ThePublicEnemyWrestling, the Eliminators (Wrestling/PerrySaturn and John Kronus), Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, Jack Victory, Da Baldies, Wrestling/TerriRunnels, Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch. He seemed to go looking for trouble by posting online rants about people, although from this same source he had made up with Cornette, even if they are still opposed as far as wrestling shows go.

* EveryoneHasStandards: New Jack was willing to be a lecherous person and show zero remorse for anything....but even ''he'' knew to draw the line when he heard the news of the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit murder-suicide. So much that he (in the usual New Jack style) launched into a ''huge'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards defenders of Benoit.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
** He was definitely that when the Gangstas started.
** His heel mic work in SMW qualifies as well. In one promo, he drew the proverbial line in the sand to separate himself from wrestling's past, saying "The Wrestling/JunkyardDog days is over."

* BaldOfAwesome: A cutup bald head to boot.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jack The Other Wiki]] has a good writeup on his life and career.

* GarbageWrestler: If not the codifier, he may have been the best pure example, since he would actually bring ''[[LiteralMetaphor garbage cans]]'' full of weapons to the ring for his matches. He even provides the trope's ''page quote''. His whole offense was built around hitting people with weapons and sometimes diving off of a balcony or some other high place to put someone through a table. However, at PWX he said that he wrestled before he began swinging chair and at the end had to start ''wrestling'' again as swinging chairs was not getting him paid enough.

* OddFriendship: With Wrestling/ChrisCandido, in RealLife. He acknowledged it during his online feud with [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Tammy Lynn "Sunny" Sytch]], Candido's widow.

* SaltAndPepper: While, following the Gangstas' split, he did team with a variety of white partners (Kronus, Little Spike Dudley, etc.), he subverted this, since, with the probable exception of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kronus]], his white partners generally tended to be the more reasonable half of the team.

* WeaponOfChoice: He'd use pretty much anything but a folding chair was his first choice, most of the time.

* NWordPrivileges:
** Used it after a brawl with Wrestling/TheRockNRollExpress in SMW in 1994, which can be seen on the ''Wrestling Gold: Before They Were Famous'' DVD.
** At ''[=ECW=] Fight the Power'', June 1, 1996, [[RedBaron "The Loose Cannon"]] Wrestling/BrianPillman made his way out after the Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck-Wrestling/RobVanDam match. He got on the mic and started running down the roster, including referring to the Gangstas as being... well, what the initials stand for in the name of the rap group Music/{{NWA}}. New Jack was legitimately angered and, later in the show, verbally condemned Pillman for what he had said, acknowledging that they had left the racial anger behind in SMW. He also condemned Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F for calling a tag team the Gangstas in Paradise ([[WildSamoan Sammy the Silk and Mack Daddy Kane]][[note]]Better known, respectively, as Samu and Rosey/Kimo[[/note]]) and Wrestling/{{WCW}} for renaming actor/wrestler [[Creator/TinyLister Tommy "Tiny" Lister]], aka "Zeus," "Z-Gangsta" when he joined the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom.[[note]]He then went off on a tangent about a rumor of Pillman and his WCW tag team partner Wrestling/TomZenk being caught in a locker room having sex with each other. For whatever it's worth, [[http://thesmartmarks.com/old_site/artman/publish/article_237.shtml Missy Hyatt has said that Jack got the story wrong]]. According to her, Pillman had been dating [[Wrestling/TerriRunnels Alexandra York (Terri "Marlena" Runnels)]] and tried to get her into a threesome with Zenk. Choose your favorite story, though the fact that Missy WAS in WCW at the time may give her version of events more credibility. As a weird twist to the story, Jack and Terri would actually have a RealLife relationship years later.[[/note]]

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* DentedIron: Sleep deprivation and memory loss from the Danbury incident still plagues him, and that doesn't even touch on the various other injuries he sustained. He eventually died at 58 due to a heart attack.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/JimCornette, Wrestling/ThePublicEnemyWrestling, the Eliminators (Wrestling/PerrySaturn and John Kronus), Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, Jack Victory, Da Baldies, Wrestling/TerriRunnels, Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch. He seems to go looking for trouble by posting online rants about people, although from this same source he has made up with Cornette, even if they are still opposed as far as wrestling shows go.
* AxCrazy: He is very enthusiastic about his violence and clearly not in complete touch with the way the world works. Most noteable is him slicing open untrained 17-year-old Mass Transit's forehead with a surgical scalpel (a wound which required 100 stitches to close), stabbing a Florida wrestler with a jagged piece of metal 14 times for no real reason, and giving veteran wrestler Gypsy Joe a skull fracture with a baseball bat in retaliation for a series of stiff shots. Not to mention him and Mustafa beating the hell out of indie team the American Gangsters for "stealing their gimmick". But you can call it Crazy Awesome. Why else would his matches get "this is awesome" chanted during them?

* BerserkButton: According to the ''Dark Side of the Ring'', the thing that frequently gets him riled up is being called the N-Word.

* BountyHunter: In RealLife. Or so he claims.

* DentedIron: Sleep deprivation and memory loss from the Danbury incident still plagues him, and that doesn't even touch on the various other injuries he's sustained.
* {{Determinator}}: Will work through incredible pain and injuries and will sacrifice himself (see his balcony dives) to beat his opponents.

* DoubleStandard: Has strongly condemned Sunny for cheating on his friend Chris Candido with multiple guys backstage in ECW but takes obscene pride in bragging about how he himself has cuckolded other men like Goldust with their wives such as Terri.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: He is implied to have raped Jeremy Borash during the first TNA ''Hardcore Justice'' PPV. It was completely PlayedForLaughs.
* TheDreaded: Some wrestlers were reportedly fearful for their lives when they worked with New Jack, and fans are often afraid to approach him at meet and greets. Considering his reputation they may have a point.

** His style could be best compared to that of Gypsy Joe, ironically enough, although he's more frequently compared [[Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher "The Madman from the Sudan" Abdullah the Butcher]], despite being smaller, lighter, faster, etc, because that's who Jack looks the most like on account of their darkish skin and scarred foreheads. Jack has used a fork a few times too, although it's ''not'' his signature weapon.

* {{Flanderization}}: In the beginning, Jack improvised a few high spots as a way to get himself over. It worked--too well. All of a sudden, the office was excitedly asking, "What're you gonna dive off tonight?", and it became a handicap. A ''lucrative'' one, but a handicap nonetheless. He actually did stop doing dives when people stopped paying to see them

* GarbageWrestler: If not the codifier, he may be the best pure example, since he would actually bring ''[[LiteralMetaphor garbage cans]]'' full of weapons to the ring for his matches. He even provides the trope's ''page quote''. His whole offense was built around hitting people with weapons and sometimes diving off of a balcony or some other high place to put someone through a table. However, at PWX he said that he wrestled before he began swinging chair and at the end had to start ''wrestling'' again as swinging chairs was not getting him paid enough.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: According to Devin Sturgis, New Jack really is a nice guy, in defiance of what his peers had to say on the matter. Wrestling/TheIronSheik and Wrestling/DLoBrown also say they love New Jack, even after the latter had his ass beat by him.

* NostalgiaFilter: Averted. He's been vocally critical of any attempts at reuniting Wrestling/{{ECW}}. In Jack's opinion, simply slapping the ECW name on it won't magically bring those times back to life. [[SourGrapes And it probably doesn't help that he's seldom invited to any of them either]].

* OffOnATechnicality: Claims to have '''four''' justifiable homicides on his record, and has been arrested '''MANY''' times in his career.

* ScarsAreForever: Like a lot of wrestlers who frequently bladed in order to bleed during a match, New Jack's forehead has a massive patch of scar tissue from years and years of razor blade cuts.
* ScaryBlackMan: It's an essential part of his character, and he provides the example for this a few times on this site.

* UnnecessaryRoughness: Has a reputation for legitimately beating up opponents who cross him.
* WeaponOfChoice: He'll use pretty much anything but a folding chair is his first choice, most of the time.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: New Jack's not a respecter of persons. Generally if no wrong is done to him he'll be laid back but if there is anything, be it experience, seniority, fame, connections, size, that allows you to think you can take liberties with New Jack, think again.

* WolverineClaws: One of his favorite weapons.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/JimCornette, [[Wrestling/{{TPE}} the Public Enemy]], the Eliminators (Wrestling/PerrySaturn and John Kronus), Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, Jack Victory, Da Baldies, Wrestling/TerriRunnels, Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch. He seems to go looking for trouble by posting online rants about people, although from this same source he has made up with Cornette, even if they are still opposed as far as wrestling shows go.