Jerome Young, a wrestler with Extreme Championship Wrestling known by his ring name New Jack, has died. He was 58.
His wife Jennifer told the website PWInsider that Young died of a heart attack on Friday afternoon in North Carolina. The WWE also confirmed the news of Young’s passing.
New Jack was active in wrestling throughout the ’90s and was best known for his time with the ECW. He was notorious for his extreme and quite often risky and controversial wrestling style. His tactics involved dangerous bumps or “shooting,” in which he would do unplanned or unscripted wrestling moves, which was all part of the ECW’s bloodier and more intensely violent performances.