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New Jack dead: ECW hardcore wrestling legend passes away aged 58 from heart attack

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Wrestling legend and former ECW star New Jack has died from a heart attack, aged 58. New Jack - real name Jerome Young - passed away on Friday after a long and controversial career in the business.

Working for Paul Heyman in the upstart Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion in the 1990s, New Jack was a pioneer of the hardcore, violent style the show would become famous for.

But he was arguably best known for his involvement in the so-called Mass Transit incident in 1996, in which he used a surgical scalpel to cut a fellow wrestler during a hardcore match.

The performer, Erich Kulas, bled profusely having suffered severed arteries and was taken to hospital for treatment. New Jack was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous

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