New Jack Jerome Young ( January 3 , 1963 ) is a retired American professional wrestler best known under the ring name of New Jack . Among the various American promotions he appeared in , Young worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling , Combat Zone Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Young ' s career lasted over 20 years , beginning in 1992 before retiring in April 2013 . Career . Young claims to have been a bounty hunter before becoming a professional wrestler , and to have committed four justifiable homicides , although these claims have not been verified by independent sources . Young trained under Ray Candy and debuted in 1993 in the Memphis , Tennessee - based United States Wrestling Association ( USWA ) , where he adopted the name New Jack . He went on to form a tag team , The Gangstas , with Mustafa Saed in Smoky Mountain Wrestling ( SMW ) . The Gangstas took part in several controversial angles , on one occasion using affirmative action to enable them to win matches with a two count pinfall as opposed to the conventional three count . They engaged in a long feud with the Rock ' N Roll Express ( Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson ) . During their stint , the NAACP would picket outside the performance venues because of the " Gangsta " gimmick , claiming that no racial violence had occurred in the Tennessee area for years , and they didn ' t want the reputation of gangsters to be put into the Tennessee area . Extreme Championship Wrestling . In 1995 , The Gangstas left SMW and joined the Philadelphia - based Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) promotion . They won the ECW Tag Team Championship s twice before Saed was fired from the company in 1997 . New Jack then formed The Gangstanators , a new tag team with former Eliminator John Kronus , going on to win a third ECW Tag Team Championship . New Jack began dragging in a garbage can full of weapons and throwing it into the ring as a sort of ultra - violent grab bag . August 1998 - 1999 . New Jack throughout the late - 1990s was in a bitter feud with Da Baldies and their leader The Spanish Angel over the unofficial title of " King of the Streets " . The two battled back and forth over the matter in bloody street fights . One of ECW television ' s most gruesome moments is when in the course of a match , Angel used New Jack ' s staple gun ( which he often wore around his neck with a chain ) against him , stapling him in the eye . Referees called off the match , and New Jack disappeared from the air for several months . New Jack returned by the end of 1999 with his eye seemingly recovered , now sporting a scythe around his neck , claiming that he had " upgraded " the staple gun . The first match he had against Angel since his return was a successful one , as he continued his feud against Da Baldies . The Danbury Fall . On March 12 , 2000 , New Jack ( legitimately ) suffered brain damage and was temporarily blinded in his right eye , when he and his opponent , Vic Grimes , fell off a balcony , missed the tables that were supposed to absorb the force of their fall and landed on the concrete floor ( with Grimes landing on New Jack ' s head ) at Living Dangerously 2000 . In a rematch between the two in Xtreme Pro Wrestling ( XPW ) , New Jack threw Grimes from a scaffold , with Grimes plummeting around 40 feet into the ring . The stunt did not work out as planned , as Grimes only landed on one of the twelve tables that were intended to break his fall and ended up dislocating his ankle on the ring rope . In the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore , New Jack claimed that he had intentionally thrown Grimes too hard in the hopes that he would hit the ring post and for Grimes to be injured or killed , but under further evaluation Grimes can be seen noticeably pushing off the scaffold with his foot which is one of the main factors leading to the botch . Also in the interview , he said that the Living Dangerously accident was his own fault for prematurely pulling Grimes down from the scaffold . Jack has said that Grimes had been going around telling the locker room that he hurt New Jack , until Jack replied by saying " I hurt me . " XPW and the independent circuit . After ECW declared bankruptcy in April 2001 , New Jack began wrestling on the independent circuit . In 2002 , he wrestled for XPW , and in 2003 , he made multiple appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and also Combat Zone Wrestling , competing in Cage of Death V . New Jack appeared at the ECW reunion show , Hardcore Homecoming , on June 10 , 2005 , as well as competing on the " Extreme Reunion " tour from September 15 – 16 . In April 2003 , New Jack was in a memorable hardcore match with longtime wrestler Gypsy Joe . Joe was continuously no - selling New Jack , this caused New Jack to legitimately attack the sexagenarian with a chain , a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire , and several other weapons . In 2006 , New Jack reached an agreement with MTV to participate in their Wrestling Society X television series . He appeared in the Battle Royal to determine contenders for the WSX Championship , directing his focus on fellow ex - ECW alumnus Chris Hamrick . New Jack ran his own wrestling promotion 2XFW based in Cincinnati , Ohio . There were advertisements for 5 shows , 3 of which were canceled . 2XFW has since ceased operation . There was another attempt at restarting the promotion in November 2009 but things fell through once again . New Jack has also competed in KCW ( Keystone Championship Wrestling ) based in Central Pennsylvania . Other media . In the video game ECW Anarchy Rulz , New Jack ' s theme song was especially made by Bootsy Collins with unique lyrics , unlike every other character ' s theme , which consisted of sound - alikes of their real themes . The real theme ( " Natural Born Killaz " ) , like everyone else ' s , could not be featured ; copyright issues from their record labels wouldn ' t allow it . New Jack was featured in the 1999 wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat . In addition , he appeared in the television series Early Edition on May 6 , 2000 as a biker in the episode " Mel Schwartz , Bounty Hunter " . He was also featured in the video game Backyard Wrestling 2 : There Goes the Neighborhood . New Jack is referenced in the Weezer song " El Scorcho " . The line " watchin ' Grunge legdrop New Jack through a press table " was derived from a caption for a photograph of New Jack fighting wrestler Johnny Grunge that was published in Pro Wrestling Illustrated . New Jack took part in a shoot interview with The Iron Sheik and The Honky Tonk Man where the subject was Chris Benoit ' s murder - suicide . New Jack commented that nothing could excuse what Benoit had done and all people on WWE and elsewhere who were making excuses for him were hypocrites . He also thought it was ironic how Extreme Championship Wrestling was seen as violent and dangerous wrestling when he was working there and still only one person died under New Jack ' s time with the company , whereas WWE was " averaging three a year . " He also has a DVD documentary called New Jack Hardcore : The History . New Jack did a DVD interview with The Sandman and Raven for Pro Wrestling Insider . New Jack recently made his hip hop recording debut . He contributed several verses to indie rapper Duckman ' s new album Duckman for Presidente . An animated commercial for the album featuring a cartoon version of New Jack was recently released . New Jack ' s voice is featured in the commercial and he tells listeners to " buy the cd or I ' ll stab your ass " . In the popular video game Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 the player can earn a call sign titled New Jack , referring to when he stabbed his opponent . New Jack has a radio show on BlogTalkRadio airing Wednesdays 10pm to 11pm .