They would use fried chicken and watermelons as props and win matches as a result of a two count (rather than the conventional three count), purportedly due to Affirmative Action. Following SummerSlam, Zeus formed an alliance with "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase leading into the Survivor Series. New Jack became a surprise attraction at Pay-Per-Views, and was known for answering open challenges by heels and doing run-ins to save babyfaces with his various weapons, to the crowd's delight. Jerome "New Jack" Young first received national attention from the wrestling world when he wrestled for Jim Cornett's Smokey Moutain Wrestling as a member of wrestling tag team The Gansta's with Mustafa Saedd. On August 8, 2010, Saed and New Jack reunited for a single night at the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view Hardcore Justice, assaulting Team 3D and Joel Gertner after a match. Storm on the October 27, 1990 edition of World Championship Wrestling. Mustafa was trained as a professional wrestler by Gene Anderson. the Danbury Fall) where he and Vic Grimes botched a stunt and fell 20 ft onto concrete;note With New Jack shooting brain fluid out his nose and losing sight in one eye. hitting him too hard, rather than fake-hard)... and the list goes on. Zeus was eliminated from the match via disqualification after refusing to break a chokehold on Hogan and shoving the referee away. He reprised the role in the film's sequel, Next Friday, but did not appear in the third film of the series, Friday After Next. Lister was the 1982 NCAA Division II National Shot Put Champion. Saed would return to ECW on February 12, 1999 at Crossing the Line '99 in Queens, New York. Lister was born blind in his right eye due to a detached and deformed retina. Lister also spent a short time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Z-Gangsta, as part of The Alliance to End Hulkamania in March 1996, culminating at Uncensored.

[9] As of April 2014, he was out on bail and confident of avoiding prison. a 2003 match with one Gypsy Joe that devolved into a real-life brawl when Joe refused to sell Jack's moves (bad idea); and, in 2004, shanking another wrestler in the middle of a match for "stiff shot"-ing him (ie. Lister's final WWF appearance was a promotional spot for the 1990 Royal Rumble. On May 24, 2008, the Gangstas reunited for the first time in over 10 years at Xtreme Pro Wrestling's "Cold Day in Hell" in a match against the Westside NGZ. [5] [3] He avoided the local gang life in Compton by developing an interest in films and religion instead. This being the mid-nineties, they also turned face. Lister was billed as "Zeus: The Human Wrecking Machine",[2] and used the same "monster heel" gimmick in his matches by no selling his opponent's more lethal moves.

My guess is that the wrestlers he arrived with vouched that he could work and that led to him being in the match with the Gangstas. The Gangstas are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of 2-Pac and Lil Wayne. After WWC, Saed wrestles mostly on the independent circuit for promotions such as All Pro Wrestling, Portland Wrestling and Sacramento Wrestling Federation. He also played the role of Obodo in

[2] The Hulkamaniacs went on to win the match. After the Survivor Series, the feud between Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake versus Randy Savage and Zeus ended with a steel cage match on December 27, 1989 at the No Holds Barred pay-per-view event.

See who else started out in horror films. New Jack found a new partner in John Kronus of The Eliminators, who like New Jack was left without a partner after the other half of The Eliminators, Perry Saturn, left ECW. [3] He was cut after two exhibition games, and opted to pursue acting instead.[4]. In 2000, Saed would go on his first and only tour of Japan with Big Japan Pro Wrestling where he participated in the World Extreme Cup 2000.

Hogan and Beefcake were once again victorious in what would be Zeus's last match in the WWF. On August 8, 2010, the team made an appearance at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's ECW reunion show, Hardcore Justice, assaulting Team 3D and Joel Gertner after a match. Afterward, Hinn laid hands on Lister and prophesied over him, "God is calling you to reach out to young people and will bless your acting career to do it." New Jack and Mustafa left SMW in June 1995, in a controversial fashion, which escalated the long-standing dispute between Paul Heyman and Jim Cornette. Killer Kyle would join the Gangstas in March 1995 during their feud with Jim Cornette and Bob Armstrong.

50+ videos Play all Mix - New Jack/The Gangstas ECW Theme 1996-2001: Natural Born Killaz by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube YouTube Rob Van Dam ECW 1998-2001 Theme: Walk by Kilgore - Duration: 5:01. Citing jealousy for being billed under Hogan and anger over losing to Hogan in the movie, Zeus now wanted to beat him in "real life". Nobody … And it probably doesn't help that he's seldom invited to any of them either. He is best known for his appearances with Smokey Mountain Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling in the 1990s.

TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The Gangstas are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of 2-Pac and Lil Wayne. In 2012, Saed began appearing regularly with the Sacramento, California-based promotion Supreme Pro Wrestling. He has also competed in XPW, TNA, CZW, IWA Mid-South and several other promotions. Ring announcers would, on more than one occasion, confuse their hometown as being Louisiana (LA) instead of Los Angeles (L.A.) which would entice New Jack to verbally abuse the announcer. Workers: Promotions: Artist: Title: 1: Gangstas: ECW: Snoop Doggy Dogg: Murder Was The Case In a distinct difference from SMW, they were embraced as heroes by the northeastern crowd, and the team went on to hold the ECW World Tag Team Championship two times. Making their Extreme Championship Wrestling debut on June 27 at Barbed Wire, Hoodies & Chokeslams, and their Hardcore TV debut on July 20, the Gangstas would quickly become faces and a draw for ECW, regularly bringing weapons such as guitars, crutches and staple guns in trash cans and shopping carts to the ring. After SMW's bancrupcy he soon went with Saedd to Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Zeus formed an alliance with fellow Hogan rival "Macho Man" Randy Savage to feud with Hogan and his friend, Brutus Beefcake. The athletic department of Lister's alma mater Cal State LA sponsors an annual track meet in his name.

They currently wrestle on the Raw brand of Wrestling Society X (WSX). Brad Pitt and Keira Knightley both scored early roles in scary movies. Lister is best known as Deebo from Friday. In 2015, Lister filmed Busy Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Gangstas then went on to ECW in mid-1995 in Philadelphia, where they eventually dropped the race angle and focused on the other half of their gimmick: Taking people apart.

Although they lost the titles several months later in December, they would become two-time champions on July 19, 1997. Kronus and New Jack became known as The Gangstanators (a portmanteau of Gangstas and Eliminators) and held the ECW World Tag Team Championship once.

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Lister appeared via both original footage and film clips from the movie. After SMW's bancrupcy he soon went with Saedd to Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling. He did, however, appear in Cube's director debut The Players Club. Lister was the main police officer in Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" video, and reprised his role as a police officer in Chamillionaire's 2012 single Show Love. For the film the character is from, see, California State University at Los Angeles, "Taking a Shot at Films: Cal State L.A. shotput title-holder Tommie Lister Jr. transferred his athletic success to pro wrestling--and now acting", "Cast | Busy Day Movie - Attila Arpa, Tommy Lister, Quinton Aaron", "Monday Update: Vince Returns, Lots of Promotion for Weekend Events; Trigg's Next Fight; New WWE Hire", "Actor Tommy 'Tiny' Lister to plead guilty in mortgage fraud scheme", "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 1991", Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Lister_Jr.&oldid=977727293, African-American male professional wrestlers, Male actors from Los Angeles County, California, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Pages which use embedded infobox templates with the title parameter, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2018, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 September 2020, at 16:13. The film was produced by Tamás Nádas. In 1994 at Smokey Mountain Wrestling, the pairing of Saed, New Jack and, for a brief time, D'Lo Brown were collectively known as The Gangstas. The group originally started as a three-man group with D'Lo Brown in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW), before evolving into a four-man group with Killer Kyle. The Gangstas would enter a lengthy feud with the Public Enemy that would last until the beginning of 1996 where the Public Enemy would beat the Gangstas in a street fight. For more irony, The Dudley Boys would wear ring gear in a similar style to Jack during their WWE run, although that could just be taken as a general ECW tribute in which Jack's camouflage played a role. Jerome Young, Actor: ECW Hardcore TV.