Beyond The Mat Unrated Director's Cut Trailer Matthew Gaudet 80 subscribers Subscribe 140 Share 42K views 6 years ago Show more Show more Beyond the Mat YouTube Movies Documentary 2000. [5], Roddy Piper also appeared with Blaustein on Larry King Live to discuss the professional wrestling business. Tag partner Mustafa Saed recalled in New Jacks autobiography that things were a little foggy on the night of the Kulas incident because of all the partying they had been doing. Here are the six biggest takeaways from Hurtss new contract, and what it might mean for Lamar Jackson and the next wave of QBs looking to cash in. New Jack's partner was Mustafa Saed. They received their title shot at As Good as It Gets, where Gangstanators defeated Dudley Boyz to win the World Tag Team Championship, marking Jack's third tag title reign. New Jack, 1963-2021 - The Ringer Fights Sports New Jack Bled for His Fame The hardest of hardcore wrestlers from the sport's most violent era never struggled to make anything look real,. Plus, Edson Barboza Turns Back the Clock. Referees called off the match, and New Jack disappeared from the air for many months. [68], On May 14, 2021, Young died of a heart attack in the afternoon at his Greensboro, North Carolina home at the age of 58. Beyond the Mat. "[9] Likewise, Hulk Hogan expressed an interest in appearing in the next wrestling documentary should Blaustein make one.[9]. [33] On the November 5 episode of ECW on TNN, Jack rescued Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks from an attack by Da Baldies (The Spanish Angel, Vito LoGrasso, Tony DeVito and Vic Grimes) but Angel stapled Jack in the eyes. [59][60], Young was critical of Paul Heyman as a promoter, primarily due to Heyman's penchant for lying to his roster, as well as for cheating them out of paychecks. On June 11, 2016, New Jack was set to face former UFC star Phil Baroni in an unsanctioned match at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate event at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. The careers of the three successful wrestlers are contrasted with those of wrestlers who have not yet achieved comparable success, such as two men getting started in the sport of wrestling, Tony Jones and Michael Modest, who are granted a tryout match for the WWF. At WrestleCon 2013, Roberts announced his desire to return to WWE as a participant in Royal Rumble 2014, which did not happen. New Jack knew he had only a few more earning years left. The crowd, horrified by Jack's savage beating of this man either left the show in disgust or started calling Jack the N-word, a term he had been called almost every week during his days in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. All Rights Reserved. I just sat around and watched, like it was another TV show or something. Plus AEW Adds Saturday Night Show. "[7] Paul Tatara of CNN wrote, "Blaustein seems to think that he's humanizing these guys by showing how "normal" they are out of the ring, but he unintentionally makes their penchant for self-mutilation all the more inexplicable. [1] Spokespeople for the WWF, however, stated that advertising was pulled because of a policy against advertising for other wrestling companies or ventures. Paul Heyman: . New Jack: I ain't a forty-hour motherf***er, man. [1][5], Jake Roberts has stated that he was informed the film would be used to help children, but that never transpired. It's not supposed to be real. Unlike the WWE shows, this is the truth, and scenes showing Jake with his estranged father and daughter and Mick's wife and children horrified by a fight may be far more upsetting than the fights themselves. A year before that, he had brutalized the wrestler Dances with Dudley in the locker room after that particular Dudley Boy continued throwing stiff punches in spite of New Jacks requests to tone it down. Although New Jack thought that it would suffice to brutalize the promotions favorite wrestlers, such as Tracy Smothers and the Rock n Roll Express of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, Cornette recognized that New Jack had a prodigious talent for interviews and promos, and wanted him to lean into that ability. Beyond the Mat (1999) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Barry W. Blaustein Writing Credits Barry W. Blaustein . Beyond The Mat Entertainment. Foley retired from full-time competition in 2000, at age 34, due to health concerns related to his hardcore style of wrestling, as well as him and his wife Colette (who was featured in the film with their two older children) having two more children after the film was released. [56][57] He is also referenced by Harlem rapper Smoke DZA on his album Rugby Thompson. The film focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers outside of the ring, primarily Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts, as well as some aspiring wrestlers. The film focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers outside of the ring, primarily Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts, as well as some aspiring wrestlers. Plus, Embiid Destroys the Nets Margin of Error. 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Blaustein, Articles needing additional references from May 2016, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from March 2021, All Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 04:22. As strange as it seems from the perspective of 2021, watching as fans booed him and Mustafa out of the arena for antagonizing Confederate battle flagwaving good guys, New Jack also infuriated the Tennessee chapter of the NAACP. Their Run Is Just Beginning. Nothing came of either, but after New Jack dropped out of Clark, he wound up playing on a semipro football team, during which time a teammate training to become a pro wrestler introduced him to Ray Candy, who would also become New Jacks trainer. This led to Jack and Kronus quietly dissolving Gangstanators and going their separate ways as Jack more frequently teamed with Spike Dudley to feud with Dudley Boyz. Kids say (1) While in training, New Jack engaged in other rough-and-tumble activities. 2 hr 28 min. He attended various schools, before finally graduating from Atlanta's D.M. "[44], In October 2004, New Jack, wrestling for Thunder Wrestling Federation, was scheduled to fight fellow wrestler William Jason Lane at an event near Jacksonville, Florida. It's not supposed to be real. 1 h 42 min. [1] As a result, Lions Gate Films, the film's distributor, considered filing a lawsuit for restraint of trade. Ten years of discussion of the Mass Transit incident, New Jack wrote in his autobiography, turned out to be a low estimate. From there, it was off to the races in a months-long feud with the Rock n Roll Express that saw New Jack cutting some of his greatest promos. New Jack, who was in the midst of a period in which he abused alcohol and relied on cocaine to get through his matches, bristled at Kulass lack of respect. [62], From 2009 to 2011 Young was in a relationship with Terri Runnels; after the relationship ended Runnels filed a lawsuit against Young for libel and to block distribution of sexually explicit photos he had of Runnels. Now he is a crack cocaine addict, and estranged from his daughter. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) pro wrestler Jerome "New Jack" Young has died at 58, his wife, Jennifer Young, confirmed on Facebook. [67], After retiring, Young regularly used prescribed painkillers to help with the pain from various injuries he sustained during his career. Beyond the Mat (1999): Dir: Barry W. Blaustein / Featuring: Terry Funk, Mick Foley, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, Vince McMahon, Chyna: Exhilarating and provocative view of the world of professional wrestling as Barry W. Blaustein's regards the kind of person who does this for a living and goes home to a family. RALEIGH, N.C. At the first time of asking, at least, Mathew Barzal was not a magic fix-it-all solution for the Islanders' power play. New Jack, the 52-year-old balcony-diving, weapons-wielding architect of pain, is retired and living with no regrets about the mayhem he caused by Tom Breihan on August 18, 2015 ne night in 1996, an 18-year-old kid named Erich Kulas walked into an Extreme Championship Wrestling show in Revere, Massachusetts, hoping to find work for the night. 2023 Cable News Network. In 2994, New Jack and Saed joined Jim Cornettes Knoxville-based Smoky Mountain Wrestling promotion. [10], Beyond the Mat has an 82% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 66 reviews. [7] The two teams engaged in a lengthy rivalry and traded wins against each other throughout the year, with the feud ending in a street fight at House Party, which Public Enemy won. Afterward, Jack drove Mustafa through a table with a diving splash from the top of the cage. Jack Jeanne will launch for Switch on June 15 in the west, publisher Aksys Games anounced. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) tweeted Friday night, WWE extends its condolences to Youngs family and friends.. Security camerasstill a novelty in the early 1980s, but installed at this jewelry storeled to Youngs arrest, conviction, and finally a two-year sentence at Alto State Prison. [9] The film was later released on DVD, including extra footage and cast interviews. In 2007, Jim Bell, the former Vice President of Merchandising for the WWF who featured in the film, was sentenced for trying to defraud the company almost $1 million from 1998 to 2002 through illegitimate kickbacks. He returned to ECW on the September 22 episode of ECW on TNN, where he rescued Spike Dudley from an assault by Justin Credible and Rhino but was double teamed by the two. CM Punk is Back? In the last 30 years, hundreds of pro-wrestlers have died under the age of 45, most of them due to the physical trauma they've put their bodies through or the dependence on . This sort of thing was always starting and stopping in our place.. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Beyond Mars by Jack Williamson (2015, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! By the mid-1990s, wrestling had left its kayfabe days in the dust, with long-running story lines and in-ring theatrics taking center stage, but New Jacks propensity for legitimate, unpredictable violence remained as real, and really brutal, as the sport could get. New Jack grasped the ECW formula and delivered it as efficiently as possible: nobody has to fake or sell the damage theyve received, because theyve received actual damage. [11] Gangstas then faced Samoan Gangstas Party in a match at Heat Wave which ended in a brawl between both teams. (441) 7.6 1 h 43 min 2000 R. Get a no-holds-barred look into the wild world of professional wrestling in Beyond the Mat. New Jack snorted another eight ball of cocaine, then began thinking about all the ways I could hurt this guy take him out forever.. Always new content for our community. [9] Jack returned to ECW on March 8 at Big Ass Extreme Bash to rescue Mustafa from an assault by The Headhunters, resulting in The Gangstas turning into fan favorites. What shows is startling yet immensly entertaining . Although questions remain about how engaged he was in either bounty hunting or drug dealinghow much of it was real and how much part of a wrestlers fabulous backstoryNew Jack stated in his autobiography that he didnt take any lives despite rumors to the contrary. Qualified Yoga teacher; RYT 200 hr. Free shipping for many products! Step or Stomp? The wrestler joined ECW in the mid-90s and was featured. That changed for good in mid-1995, when they left Smoky Mountain to join Paul Heymans Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion. Of course, if you hurt him more than he thought permissible, he would really hurt you. [citation needed], New Jack's feud with The Dudley Boyz continued in 1999 as he teamed with Spike Dudley to lose to them at Guilty as Charged. Beyond the Mat is a 1999 American documentary film directed, written, produced and narrated by Barry W. Blaustein. If Id let [Gypsy Joe] kick my ass, Id have looked like an idiot, he wrote. Movie Info. [2] Although he was once one of the more famous wrestlers in America, performing in front of tens of thousands of fans, he is now wrestling in small-town venues. Professional wrestler Jerome Young, best known as New Jack. The hardest of hardcore wrestlers from the sports most violent era never struggled to make anything look real, because all of it was. 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