Joe Rogan Watches New Jack’s Most Violent Matches for the First Time

Joe Rogan Watches New Jack’s Most Violent Matches for the First Time

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We all remember the first time we saw New Jack stab that dude during a match... or throw Vic Grimes off a scaffold into a mountain of tables. Once the utter shock subsided, we showed it to our friends at recess and watched the color drain from their faces. Well, Joe Rogan just went through that very experience.

On an episode of Legion of Skanks, Rogan watched some New Jack matches for the first time. The comedian and podcaster reacted with horror when he saw New Jack stab wrestler Hunter Red with a knife during a 2004 Thunder Wrestling Federation match.

"He really stabbed him?! Oh my god," Rogan reacted. "Oh my god, after he stabbed him he's stepping on his head. Oh my god. Bro, he just stabbed that guy in a pro wrestling match ... This is insane, he just stabbed him multiple times."

LOS continued to stun Rogan as they pulled up the Vic Grimes scaffold match. "Oh my god," Rogan said yet again. "That is crazy. You can't fake that. Flying through the air, hitting tables..."

After LOS host Dave Smith made a comment saying some guys are just "made for" hardcore wrestling, Rogan responded, "How 'made for it' could they be?"

11 Most Shocking + Violent Moments in AEW History

"I am unapologetic about my love of... whatever you want to call it... the deathmatch style, hardcore. I love that stuff," Jon Moxley famously told Chris Van Vliet. "I understand most people are gonna think that's crap and they're not gonna want to watch that. Although I make no apologies that I like that stuff, I would never foist it upon everybody else. It's not like I walked into AEW and was like 'Look, all my matches are going to be crazy.' I never imagined we'd be able to do stuff like that."

Since its official formation in 2019, AEW has become wrestling's premiere destination for extreme acts of violence. With an entire locker room influenced by Atsushi Onita's FMW and Paul Heyman's ECW, both the men and women of AEW have created gruesome and iconic moments that rival any era of pro wrestling.

Tables, ladders, chairs, garbage cans and even kendo sticks have become commonplace in hardcore matches. But a bat full of a nails? A hypodermic needle? A champagne bucket filled with broken glass? These instruments of pain remain sickening to the core.

Check out the most shocking and violent moments from AEW below.

Gallery Credit: AEW

10 Infamous Receipts in Pro Wrestling History

In pro wrestling, a "receipt" is an ass-kicking that you brought upon yourself. It comes from the cardinal rule of the business -- always take care of your opponent. If you fail to do that, the repercussions will fall squarely on your head (often via chair shot).

The Undertaker recently explained the purpose of giving receipts in wrestling. "I'm pretty patient [when it comes to giving a receipt]. It all depends on intent," the Deadman said. "Some guys just work very snug. I pride myself on my punches. I feel like I can make it look like I can take your head off and not touch you. Every once in a while one gets away from me... I'd much rather it be there than it miss. It ain't ballet."

But not all receipts come after a stiff shot gets away. Sometimes a performer delivers a receipt to protect themselves from an unsafe worker, like when Taker had to shut down Giant Gonzalez at Wrestlemania IX. "[Gonzalez] cracks me right across the back of my neck, and then once I get back the feeling in my little fingers... I flipped," Taker recalled on his podcast. "I turned around and just started wailing on him."

Let's go back to classic WWE, the old territories, and even a battle between monsters in Japan. Here are 10 of the most infamous receipts in pro wrestling history.

Gallery Credit: WWE / NWA / HWA / YouTube

Filed Under: ECW, Joe Rogan, New Jack
Categories: Back in the Day, Video
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