Name	Steve Corino
Names	KATAKARI MAXKendo ShinkibaMark Mest (born May 29, 1973) Corino began an anti-hardcore gimmick on the independent circuit, because he felt he would have more chance of getting work if he did not work hardcore matches. He gained experience, working in Puerto Rico for the WWC, working under the ring name Lightning Kid.

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Name	New Jack
Names	New Jack
Height
Weight
Birth date	January 03, 1963
Birth place	Atlanta, Georgia
Trainer	Ray Candy
Debut	1992

Jerome Tony Young (born January 3, 1963) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his stage name New Jack in ECW.

He is known for his willingness to take dangerous bumps and his stiff hardcore wrestling style, often taking high risks and "shooting" on opponents, though he is only known to shoot on opponents who are deemed disrespectful in the ring. He is also known for having his theme song ("Natural Born Killaz" by Ice Cube and Dr. Dre) play throughout his matches in ECW. The inspiration for his ring name came from the movie New Jack City.

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 1992 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 Championships 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.

During Jack's time in ECW when he had started to dive from anything and everything, he has stated in an interview he was contacted by the (at the time) WWF to work for them. Jack also stated he wouldn't leave ECW for either the WWF or WCW because they would "water him down" and "make him look weak", in competition to the likes of Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H, Undertaker and others that where working for the company at that time.

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 2001 and 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 Gilberto Melendez (better known as Gypsy Joe). Joe was continuously no-selling New Jack. New Jack also states on a shoot interview that Joe headbutted him in the nose. This caused New Jack to legitimately attack the sexagenarian with a chain, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, and several other weapons. Before the match Jack met Gypsy Joe and went to the booker of the show and asked exactly what he was supposed to do with Joe. Jack was told "Gypsy Joe is as tough as leather", and Jack replied that he wasn't going to lose doller value from this match and won't have either a comedy, or a gimmick match, and told the booker he will kill Gypsy Joe in this hardcore match.

WWE

New Jack has been rumoured to have had a 5 minute try-out match for the WWE against Val Venis at a RAW show, but was not up to the standards of what WWE officials were asking for, as the match only lasted 1 minute, therefore was unsuccessful to gain the opportunity to a WWE dark match. However New Jack was allowed a moment to cut a promo, which supposedly left Vince and Shane McMahon very impressed. Jack got on well with the other wrestlers backstage at the RAW show and pitched an idea for the Cena stabbing storyline to WWE officials, that would involve John being stabbed by New Jack in the nightclub instead of Carlito's bodyguard. It has also been rumoured that Vince didn't want New Jack in the WWE because it could be a dangerous move, as he could end up hurting or injuring somebody. It has also been rumoured that Vince thinks New Jacks forehead is disgraceful from adding colour to a match.

Other

New Jack is known for stabbing an opponent repeatedly in the ring, he has also stated he tried to kill his opponent and he heard air bursting out from his lungs as he was stabbing him. All charges were dropped as long as New Jack trained the young wrestler.

In 2005, New Jack was supposed to wrestle Sandman in a ECW style match, but Danny Demento came out and cut a promo. Sandman came out, cut a promo, then New Jack came out, and the match turned into a Triple Threat ECW style match which New Jack won.

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. According to New Jack, he and WSX parted ways due to a disagreement backstage.

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.

New Jack has also competed in KCW (Keystone Championship Wrestling) based in Central Pennsylvania.

On August 8, 2010, New Jack appeared at TNA's ECW reunion show, Hardcore Justice, where he and Mustafa assaulted Team 3D and Joel Gertner after a match.

On December 19, 2010 New Jack appeared at the "Dawg House Bar & Grill" in Hallandale Beach, Florida. New Jack signed autographs and met fans before and during WWE's "Tables, Ladders & Chairs" Pay-Per-View.

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 .

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." (It should be noted that so far only 4 performers, including Benoit, have died under while under WWE contract. All four deaths happened across a 10 year period). He also has a DVD documentary called New Jack Hardcore: The History.

New Jack did a DVD interview with The Sandman (Jim Fullington) and Raven (Scott Levy) 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 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.

New Jack is currently in a relationship with former WWE Diva Terri Runnels.

In wrestling

Finishing moves

*187 (Diving elbow drop while holding a steel chair underneath his arm)

*Death Valley driver

*Diving splash, usually from a highly elevated position onto an opponent on a table

Signature moves

*Airplane spin

*Diving headbutt

*Guitar shot

*Various weapon shots (most notably using his signature staple gun)

Nicknames

*"The Original Gangsta"

Championships and accomplishments

Extreme Championship Wrestling

:*ECW World Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Mustafa Saed (2) and John Kronus (1)

North Georgia Wrestling Association

:*NGWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time) :*NGWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mustafa Saed

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

:*SMW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mustafa Saed

United States Wrestling Association

:*USWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Home Boy

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

:*PWI ranked him #386 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.

References

External links

New Jack on Facebook

New Jack on MySpace

Weekly Planet's extensive story on New Jack's career

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Name	Jerry Lynn
Names	Jerry the RamGorgada CrossJerry Lynn
Weight	Eddie Sharkey
Debut	March 1988 On his return to ECW TV, Lynn challenged Van Dam to one more match at Hardcore Heaven, which Lynn won. and Don Callis, and was an X Division mainstay. However, in February 2004 he suffered a severe shoulder injury, tearing the tendon from the bone in his rotator cuff, when Juventud Guerrera botched a Juvi Driver. Lynn became a TNA road agent, planning matches and coaching younger talent. On April 25, 2008, Lynn defeated Jason Gory, Shiima Xion, and Davey Richards to win the Super Indy VII Tournament that is held by International Wrestling Cartel. Traditionally, the winner of the tournament is awarded the IWC Super Indy Championship. However, Lynn refused to accept the belt and instead challenged the champion Larry Sweeney to a title match at the next show. On May 17, 2008, Lynn defeated Sweeney to officially become IWC Super Indy Champion. On September 13, 2008, Lynn lost the Super Indy title to kayfabe apprentice Johnny Gargano in a 3 Way Dance, which also included Super HENTAI. Since then, Lynn has not appeared in IWC.

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Name	The Iron Sheik
Names	The Iron Sheik
Billed	Tehran, Iran
Trainer	Verne Gagne is a semi-retired Iranian professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name The Iron Sheik. He is known for ending the near six year World Wrestling Federation Championship reign of Bob Backlund and for being the man Hulk Hogan defeated for his first WWF Championship.
Name	Shiek, Iron
Date of birth	March 15, 1943
Place of birth	Tehran, Iran

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Name	Christian
Names	Christian
Alt	White male wearing black pants, black elbowpads, and no shirt.
Height	Reso played hockey and was a fan of wrestling as a child. Christian's wrestling career began in June 1995 in a match against Zakk Wyld, which resulted in a draw. In 1997, he was a part of THUG Life, a stable (or alliance) that included Joe E. Legend, Zakk Wyld, Rhino Richards, and Sexton Hardcastle (Copeland). As a tag team on the Canadian independent circuit, Copeland and Reso were known as "High Impact" and later "The Suicide Blondes". The duo held titles in numerous professional wrestling promotions and competed in Canada, the United States, and Japan. Reso won East Coast Wrestling Association's (ECWA) Heavyweight Championship on July 18, 1998, which he held till October 15, 1999.

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Name	Tyler Black
Names	Gixx He was once a member of The Age of the Fall along with Jacobs, and several other wrestlers. Black is also a three-time world champion having won the MCPW World Heavyweight Championship once, the FIP World Heavyweight Championship on one occasion, and the ROH World Championship once.

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Name	Mark Jindrak
Names	Marco CorleoneMark JindrakMark MilliumSodom
Height
Birth date	June 26, 1977
Birth place	Auburn, New York Initially a rudo (heel), he turned into a technico (face) due to crowd support.
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Name	Jindrak, Mark
Alternative names	Corleone, Marco; Sodom
Short description	professional wrestler
Date of birth	June 26, 1977
Place of birth	Auburn, New York

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Name	Peter Polaco
Names	Aldo MontoyaJustin CrediblePG-187P.G. WalkerP.J. PolacoP.J. Walker
Height
Weight
Birth date	October 16, 1973
Birth place	Ozone Park, New York
Billed	Ozone Park, New York
Trainer	Stu HartKeith HartLance Storm
Debut	October 16, 1992

Peter Joseph Polaco (born October 16, 1973) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Aldo Montoya and with Extreme Championship Wrestling under the ring name Justin Credible.

In WWF/E, he was a eight-time WWF/E Hardcore Champion. In ECW, he was a one-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion and a 2 time ECW World Tag Team Champion with Lance Storm.

Career

Polaco traveled to Canada in order to train at the famous Hart Dungeon in Calgary, Alberta with Stu Hart, Keith Hart, and his future tag team partner, Lance Storm. He wrestled his first match on his birthday against Jake Steele. Polaco returned to America soon after his training was complete and began working for New England based wrestling promotions.

World Wrestling Federation (1993–1997)

After having wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber under the name P.J. Walker throughout 1993 and 1994 (scoring also a victory against Irwin R. Schyster), he was hired full time by WWF agent Pat Patterson in late 1994. His Portuguese ethnicity inspired the WWF to give him first the character of Aldo Montoya, the "Portuguese Man O' War". Polaco befriended The Kliq, an influential group of upper card wrestlers, after Scott Hall offered to mentor him. He had feuds with Jeff Jarrett and Ted DiBiase, but asked for his release in 1997 when he was only being booked twice a month. The WWF initially declined and sent him to a developmental promotion in Memphis to hone his skills, where he remained for seven weeks. He was then released on the condition that he could not work for World Championship Wrestling, which was then luring wrestlers away from the Federation with the promise of larger salaries.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1997–2001)

Polaco left the Federation and joined Extreme Championship Wrestling, where he debuted with booker Paul Heyman, who promised to make him a star. Polaco shaved his head and switched to a grunge style of dress, and adopted a cocky, sneering, egomaniacal attitude, renaming himself Justin Credible ("Just Incredible"). Jason Knight became his manager, along with Chastity and Nicole Bass.

He quickly ascended the ranks, eventually forming a tag team, the Impact Players, with his trainer, Lance Storm. The teaming was successful, as the Players won the ECW World Tag Team Championship on January 9, 2000. He then went into solo feuds against Sabu, Shane Douglas, and Tommy Dreamer, before once again winning the tag team titles with Storm on March 3, 2000. Polaco ascended to main event level by winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on April 22, 2000 at CyberSlam from Tommy Dreamer and threw down the ECW World Tag Team Championship belts. The team split and Storm left for WCW soon after. He held the title for over five months, and defeated Dreamer in a Stairway To Hell match at Heat Wave. He finally lost the title to Jerry Lynn on October 1, 2000. At the final ECW PPV, he formed the New Impact Players with Steve Corino. He wrestled in the last ever ECW match where he was pinned by the Sandman.

Return to the WWF/E (2001–2003)

With ECW facing imminent bankruptcy and Paul Heyman becoming unable to pay the roster, Polaco returned to the WWF in February 2001, immediately forming an alliance with X-Pac and assisting him in his pursuit of the Intercontinental Championship. The duo eventually formed a stable with Albert known as X-Factor. X-Pac and Polaco tried several times to win the Tag Team Championship, but were unsuccessful. The team split when Polaco aligned himself with Paul Heyman's band of ECW insurgents and helped form The Alliance with WCW. Polaco remained on the Company's "B" shows, forming a team with Raven, until Team Alliance lost at Survivor Series; Polaco was fired along with the rest of the Alliance roster (in kayfabe) by Vince McMahon until Ric Flair was able to save his job and get him over to the Raw brand.

On the Raw brand, Credible wrestled mostly on Sunday Night Heat and lost many singles matches he was in, but managed to become an eight-time Hardcore Champion. His last match on Raw was a squash match in which he was defeated by Batista. Polaco was released in January 2003, with his final televised WWE appearance being a loss to Test on the December 8, 2002 episode of Heat.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Ring of Honor (2002–2005)

Polaco wrestled for numerous independent promotions. He has appeared several times for Ring of Honor, where he was a member of The Carnage Crew, and for Xtreme Pro Wrestling, where he feuded with Shane Douglas. He also appeared with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, forming a stable with several other ex-ECW wrestlers and reviving his feud with Jerry Lynn.

Wrestling Society X (2006)

Credible signed a contract with the MTV "Wrestling Society X" stating that if MTV decided to turn the "one time special" into a full season, he would complete the season and would be un-able to compete anywhere else for that time period. He was released from his contract on June 5, 2006.

Polaco was in the main event of the first Wrestling Society X Show, the WSX Rumble. He was the first person in the match and the last one eliminated.

Return to WWE (2006)

Polaco was rehired by World Wrestling Entertainment in June 2006. He returned to WWE television at the June 7 WWE vs. ECW Head to Head event as a member of the ECW on Sci Fi brand of WWE, taking part in a 20 man battle royal. He made several appearances on ECW on Sci Fi before being released from his WWE contract on September 28, 2006. During this brief run, he only won two matches, both by disqualification.

Independent circuit (2007–present)

Polaco returned to the independent circuit in 2007 using the name "Justin Time". He can mostly be found wrestling for the Pro Wrestling Syndicate promotion, along with fellow original ECW wrestlers Sabu, Danny Doring and Julio Dinero, as well as making appearances for the Insane Clown Posse owned Juggalo Championship Wrestling. On March 29, 2009 he became the Big Time Wrestling Champion, defeating "Hurricane" John Walters. Ric Flair was special guest referee. Credible was stripped of the title in August of the same year.

Justin is also the topic of an upcoming documentary shot over a 3 day weekend in March 2009.

He was inducted into the New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame on July 12, 2009.

Return to TNA

On August 8, 2010, Polaco returned to TNA to take part in the ECW-themed Pay-Per-View, Hardcore Justice, where he was defeated by Stevie Richards. Afterwards, he was assaulted by former rival The Sandman with a Singapore cane.

Polaco refused to appear On WWE's Old school RAW on November 15, 2010. Where he would have potrayed his Aldo Montoya character.

Personal life

Polaco and his wife Jill have a son named Nicholas.

In wrestling

Finishing moves

*That's Incredible! (Jumping or spinning tombstone piledriver) - ECW / Independent circuit / TNA

*Lifting DDT - WWF

*Superkick

Signature moves

*Cutter

*Diving elbow drop

*Dropkick

*Reverse DDT, sometimes while falling forward

Russian legsweep, sometimes with a kendo stick across the opponent's throat

*187! (Spinning fall forward implant DDT)

*Corner sitout powerbomb

*Scoop powerslam

Managers

Jason Knight

*Dawn Marie

*Francine Fournier

Theme music

*"Man O War" by Jim Johnston (WWF; as Aldo Montoya)

*"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" by Prong and then later Grinspoon (ECW)

*"Surfette's Debut" from the Extreme Music library (WWF; as Justin Credible)

*"Whatchu Looking At?" by Uncle Kracker (WWF; while part of X-Factor)

*"Snap This!" by Dale Oliver (TNA)

Championships and accomplishments

Big Time Wrestling (Northeast)

*BTW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Extreme Championship Wrestling

*ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*ECW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Lance Storm

Impact Championship Wrestling

*ICW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Premier Wrestling Federation

*PWF Universal Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling

*3PW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Renegade Wrestling Federation

*RWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Texas Wrestling Academy

*TWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Top Rope Promotions

*TRP Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment

*WWF/E Hardcore Championship (8 times)

References

External links

SLAM! Bio and story archive

EWRWrestling.com - Justin Credible currently wrestles for EWR Wrestling

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