Jerome Young occurs as professional wrestler known as New Jack.
Career
Jerome Young began wrestling inside 1993 when Future Jack in the USWA. He so formed "The Gangstas" with Mustafa Saed in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, where it feuded using A Rock 'N Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson).
Around 1995, it attend ECW where they achieved their virtually all profits, winning a Tag Team Titles twice. Whenever Mustafa left inside 1997, Future Jack teamed by having his previous enemy in "The Eliminators", John Kronus to form "The Gangstanators and win another Tag Team Title.
Since ECW folded in 2001, he has been wrestling on the independent circuit and was set to come back to ECW One Night Stand on June 12, 2005 but legalities with the state of New York prevented that, though he did wrestle at Hardcore Homecoming in Philadelphia.
Trivia
Young was a bounty hunter before he became a wrestler and claims to have killed 4 people, justifiably, in the line of duty.
Young is referenced in the Weezer song "El Scorcho." The lyric "watchin' Grunge legdrop Up to date Jack across the click table" was taken from a caption for a photograph of Young and wrestler Johnny Grunge published in Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
Young is permanently blind in his right eye, thanks to brain damage suffered in a match on March 13, 2000. He and opponent Vic Grimes fell off a scaffold, missed the tables they were supposed to hit, and landed on the floor (with Grimes landing on Young's head).
Profile
Height: 6'
Weight: 240 lbs
Birthday: 1962
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Trained by: Ray Candy
Professional debut: 1992
Previous Identities: Original Gangsta, The man with 4 justifiable homicides
Finishing/Signature Move(s): Diving Headbutt, 187 Chair Drive
Previous Managers: Cassy Strayter
Championships and accomplishments
3-time ECW Tag Team Champion (with Mustafa Said twice and John Kronus once)
1-time SMW Tag Team Champion (with Mustafa Said)
1-time USWA Tag Team Champion (with Home Boy)
1-time NGWA Heavyweight Champion
1-time NGWA Tag Team Champion (with Mustafa Said)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 306 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
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