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New Jack was undoubtedly a complete piece of shit as a person but there was something just indescribable about him.

He was on paper and in his actions, totally abhorrent but when you watched him and listened to his shoot interviews, he was a difficult guy to actually hate. He described his despicable actions with a level of almost nonchalance and naivety that you found yourself laughing with him rather than horrified at him without realising it.

The time he tried to kill Vic Grimes was a great example of this. 

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Regarding the Rumbles, 2000 is surprisingly light on talent and quite underwhelming overall. You can't go wrong with 2001 and 2002. Most of the 2000s are at least decent, with some being excellent.

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To use the modern day parlance New Jack is definitely a ‘problematic fave’ of mine. He took advantage of his opponents bodies to such an extreme that he really should have been black listed, with plenty of justification. But he was an utterly compelling, charismatic and entertaining character and human being. Even today his ‘gimmick’ (or really just being himself) would be considered cutting edge, let alone when he was cutting the promos he was in Hicksville towns in the early 90s. And watching his matches with their spots (him jumping from or chucking people from obscene heights), the weapon shots, the music and the promos and it’s hard not to be entertained. Rest in power New Jack. 

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Yeah, decided to stay up purely for it starting it midnight and likely be a sprint.  Should be a solid show if nothing spectacular.

Reigns vs Cesaro will be great, but think it might suffer from the fact that there's surely absolutely zero chance that we can't write the finish already. Should be enjoyable getting there, but it'd be a million times better if we were at a point where you could see Reigns being toppled.  But certainly won't do Cesaro any harm to put on a good showing 

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