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SABBOTH THE STIFFER: THE HISTORY OF JAC SABBOTH

Part one of a Boozeletter editorial, famous NY/NJ promoter Augustus “Jac Sabboth” Bailan is outed in full. Taking
kids out for blowjobs from black hookers? Screwing the Legends on their pay? All this and more...

This is an article a long time For fans who don't know

coming, as there has been so Sabboth The Stiffer, this is a
many Sabboth The Stiffer column that will totally make
horror stories over the years. you see indy wrestling in a
The purpose of this article is to different light. It will also make
give the readers who really you wonder why anyone would
enjoy this type of stuff a one- do business with the guy, in
click column to all the Sabboth addition to wondering what
The Stiffer stories. I know I will type of drugs PWS is on for
be missing some minor details letting Sabboth to play Augustus Bailan
At least the Boozeletter and Jac
and deals here, but I will make wrestling again. Sabboth have something in
common: we’re both huge fans of
sure to hit all the major stuff. Story continued on Page Two... bootlegging everything we can
get our filthy hands on.

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 I also want to prephase this article that these collection
of stories come from various shoot interviews, interviews
conducted online, talking to Jac personally, The Masked
Maniac hotline & other forms of wrestling media. None of
what you're about to read below is made up or fabricated
because these stories are just mind-boggling on their own.
You can't make this stuff up. If I could, I'd be in Hollywood,
pounding Guiness with George Clooney while writing the
next Oscar award winning film. Now there's a thought!
Every story has a start and Sabboth's beginning in the
wrestling business started around 1998-1999, depending
on who you talk to. Hagop Balian, known affectionately by
his father as "Auggie", would later go on to call himself Jac financially and BAC-wise. Like any good father, Jac's dad
Sabboth when he played wrestling promoter. The name Jac wanted to see the best for his son and time and time again
Sabboth was in tribute to the band Black Sabboth. Another has given him money to survive. Jac, approaching the age
tribute to Black Sabboth was the way Jac would wear the
same dirty black T-shirt for weeks on end until the shirt
faded and turned white.
Frank Goodman, aka The Masked Maniac...
Jac was brought into the independent wrestling world
by then USA Pro Wrestling promoter, Frank Goodman. The
two would go on to have a love-hate relationship for the
next ten years. In those ten years, Goodman guesstimates
that he made over six figures from Sabboth in
merchandise, services and cash.
Goodman, a native from Queens, would meet up with
Jac Sabboth at Sabboth's old "Wrestling Universe" store in
Bayside, NY in 1999. Sabboth was fresh off overpaying
agent Johnathan Gold for Tammy "Sunny" Sytch for an
autograph signing. Goodman, a life-long wrestling fan, just
like Jac, heard about the store through the signing and
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decided to check it out. It is a mistake Goodman still
regrets to this day, even if he made tens upon tens of
thousands of dollars from Jac.
One thing to address right now is about the money
issues and money spent by Jac Sabboth. Currently, Jac is
a divorced single father. Despite all his scumbag moves in
the wrestling business, the one thing that has to be said is
that he's a devoted father. A divorced single father running
a wrestling store for children isn't the highest paying nor
most lucrative job in the world. However, Sabboth's father,
despite reports of always being drunk (hey, can't blame him
for that, after all Jac is his son!) is reportedly loaded, both
of 40, still lives in the same room that he beat off to his
Farrah Fawcett posters 30 years ago.
All the money blown by Jac was mostly his father's
money. There would be times when Jac couldn't get any
more money from his dad and that's when the stiffing and
bounced checks started. Jac's father reportedly owns the
store that Jac works in, just like how he owns the house
Jac lives in. Personally, working in Jac's store for several
months, there would be days when no one came in and the
cash register would be empty. However, Jac's dad would
work Sunday, and poof, on Monday the register would be
full again so Jac could play wrestling store owner, which
mostly consisted of going on Armenian dating sites and
religiously listening to the Masked Maniac hotline.
When we start talking about money deals in this
column, keep in mind that most of the money came from
Jac's father as Jac himself is not rich, his father is. Jac tries
to be independent and makes his business decisions and
that is why there is a Sabboth the Stiffer to write about.
Everytime Jac tries to branch away from his dad, failure is
not too far away. Expect PWS to join the Sabboth The
Stiffer list soon.
Story continues on Page 3...
 I also want to state that I do not
think Jac is a drug addict, but there is
obviously something wrong with him.
He can't get a real job in the working
world. Despite being bankrolled by his
father numerous times, he always
blows the money in the end like a bad
heroin junkie. I really think if Jac's
father wasn't alive, Jac would be living
on the streets and doing sexual favors
for Danny Demanto Best-Of DVDs.
When I think about all the money lost
and the terrible reputation Jac has, I
always think about that poor old man,
and how his son has failed him.
That fateful day in 1999, Goodman
& Sabboth would talk about wrestling
for hours. Goodman told Jac about
how he was a promoter and about his
shows. Sabboth's eyes lit up like a kid
on Christmas. Sabboth had to do this.
Goodman would Jac partner in on a
show with him. For Jac, he finally felt
that life was worth living, as he never
felt more alive.
For people who know Jac, Jac
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needs to feel that he has power and
that he is super important. In the years
I've been in Jac's store and from
stories of others, whenever there were
underage kids in there, Jac would talk
about how he was this big great
wrestling promoter, just like Vince
McMahon. Jac gets off (not literally, at
least from what I know) on these kids
and telling them about how important
he is in wrestling. It's like Jac needs to
tell these stories to these kids to boost
his own ego. Jac forgets to tell these
kids how he is nearly 40 and how his
wife left him for a lesbian, but that's a
story for later on.
More on Sabboth the Stiffer on
Page 4...
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 Goodman would make money off unbooked alot of people and started
of Jac on that first show. For the adding any wrestler that would drive

IN OUR LAST Jewish Frank Goodman, who is

somewhat volturistic when it comes to
by his store and talk to him. Jac
couldn't say no and the wrestlers, who

BOOZELETTER preying on money marks, this was are whoreish when it comes to
Chanukah times a million. Sabboth & wrestling for anyone with money, saw
Goodman would do more shows Jac as an easy mark target. Jac would
together and Goodman would take replace the A-list (at the time) talent,
Jac for more money. such as the Beefcake's, Demolition
The first Sabboth the Stiffer Ax's and Big Vito's for the Xavier's and
occurred in late 2000. Frank Goodman Red's. The show would go on to draw
and Jac were going to run a show at less than 100 fans, after Goodman put
the old Sportsfest in Staten Island. 500+ the show previous. The A-list
However, Goodman couldn't do the talent also complained big time, since
show. Goodman got the NYSAC to they were booked and Jac cancelled
give Jac a one-day promoter's license, them with little notice and didn't give
basically meaning that since Goodman them a small fee for cancelling. It was
couldn't make the show, Jac would be around this time that Hagop Balian
in charge, under Frank's insurance/ became SABBOTH THE STIFFER. The
bond. The show would be a failure and bounced checks from Sabboth would
subsequently, no more wrestling would soon become legendary around
be allowed in the venue, until August wrestling locker rooms as wrestlers
2001, where Jac killed the building for would talk about how that asshole Jac
good with his terrible business Sabboth tried giving them another
practices. rubber check.
What happened is that once The legend continues on page 5...
Goodman gave the show to Jac, Jac

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Some county jail time
never hurt anyone. The
latest on the the Nick
Hogan story was covered in
the last issue of the The Shieky
Boozeletter; read it now
at EverybodyLovesTerry.com
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 Jac, despite failing to make a profit on his first solo
adventure, knew this is what he wanted to do with his
fathers money. Jac would go on to create Ultimate
Championship Wrestling (UCW). Goodman warned Jac that like 20 VCRs and they would all be copying tapes. Jac
the UCW name was already copyrighted, but Jac wouldn't would sell these bootleg tapes in his store and at wrestling
hear any of it.
At the time Frank Goodman was holding USA Pro
Wrestling shows at the Elks Lodge in Queens, made
famous by the now-defunct ECW. Jac thought he could do
better. Jac came to Goodman looking to do everything that
Frank was doing and wanted to run a show at the Elks.
Goodman, seeing what he had in the wide-eyed mark, said
yes to everything, even if it meant competition in the same
building as USA Pro. After all, Frank would be making
thousands off of every show Jac would run.
Some might wonder how Frank would make money off
this silly little mark. It was easy. Frank would make up
expenses and double even triple money on real expenses.
Jac would overspent money on guard rails, rings, mats,
insurance, chairs, music, etc. If there was something that
you could make money on, Frank was there with an open
hand.
The most famous story about Goodman taking Jac's
fathers money was when Goodman got $600 out of Jac at
one of Jac's first shows. Jac, being the huge mark that he
is, wanted to be the Armenian New Jac. Jac wanted to dive
from the balcony of the Elks Lodge on to some ticket seller.
Goodman told Jac to do such a move, he'd need $600 to
pay the commission to allow it. Jac eagerly gave Frank the
money and this would be a move Jac would brag to the
kids about for ages. Meanwhile, Goodman would laugh
years after this story about how Jac jumped off a balcony
and paid him to do it.
As stated above, the people who would get booked on
these shows, were mostly people who would go to Jac's
store and give him the time of day and make him feel that
he was really in wrestling. Damian Dragon would rise to
power because he had free time to go to Jac's store
several times a week. That qualified him to run the locker
room. People also tell stories vividly of wrestlers like the
Amazing Red & The SAT walking out of Jac's store with 30
wrestling VHS tapes each and Jac happily giving away his
stock. After all, he was one of the boys now.
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On the subject of tapes, not only would Sabboth
become Sabboth the Stiffer, he'd also become Sabboth the
Bootlegger. Jac's back room of his store had something
events. The most common stuff to be copied was ECW
and RF Video tapes, because at the time RF was
fancamming ECW shows. I remember one day walking in
Jac's old store after reading a RF Press Release about 4
new shoots being released, and there they were, all for sale
at Jac's store. When I think about it, Jac probably made
almost off of Feinstein's tapes as Goodman made off of
Jac.
There were times that Jac would try to get footage the
right way. Jac would send Keith Zimmer, who was an
underage kid at the time, to nag promotions such as NWA
Florida/IPW with Ron Niemi, Ricky O's JCW, Rob
Dimenson's PWF & Donnie B's Phoenix Wrestling, to get
their rights to the tapes. When some of the promotions
accepted Jac's deal, Jac wouldn't follow up. Or in the case
of Ricky O when it was declined (JCW tapes were being
sold through smart mark video) Jac would just bootleg
them. I remember seeing the original J-Cups for sale back
in the day. Even to this day Jac continues to bootleg
wrestling footage, as we recently reported on the DOI.
Jac would soon bring in Harry Slash, of ECW music
fame, to become his head booker. It's hard to say if Harry
knew what he had with Jac because Harry would take the
promotion seriously but then would allow Jac to do all his
stupid angles. However, Harry would leave the promotion
after the 9/14/01 show and all hell would break lose. For
example, take this news bit from the Death Valley Driver,
about Jac's 11/30/01 show:
Curious to read what the DVDVR douchebags wrote?
The full Death Valley scoop on page six...
 PP: After the intermission Jac Sabboth were screwed and stiffed, which would
comes out and buries the last guy who
promoted under the UCW name (and who
subsequently barred Sabboth from using
said name), then turns around and buries
Simon Diamond. "Yeah, I stiffed Simon on
money... and I stiffed Dawn Marie too! And
she LOVED it!" This naturally leads Simon
to hit the ring from the crowd and take out
Sabboth's Dynasty stablemates one at a
time. See, this is what happens when
everyone attacks Black Ninja style. All of
this sets up Simon against Sabboth at the
Anniversary show. If you have to hate Vince experience in wrestling. Jac went do
McMahon, hate him for starting the trend
where every indy promotion has to have
the "evil president / commissioner"
gimmick.
As the report stated, not only did
Jac get into trouble for using a
copyrighted name, as Goodman
warned him months earlier, he would
think he was Vince McMahon, the
same person he envisioned himself to
be, in the eyes of his children
customers. Jac would do angles
where he was the boss and screwing
people over non stop. After seeing
Bischoff & McMahon do it on both
WCW & WWF, instead of giving fans
an alternative, he just came off as a
cheaper and watered down version of
them.
Jac would run into many money
troubles to run his shows. Jac would
bounce checks to the wrestlers. Jac
admitted to me that he bounced over
100 checks to wrestlers. One of the
first conversations I ever had with
name added credibility to the
Balls Mahoney, Balls was telling me he
company at the time, because while
wanted to burn Jac's store to the
many fans might not know who Harry
ground because Jac gave him another
is now, they all knew him then.
bad check. Jac would eventually get
cash from somewhere and try to make
right, but most of the times, the people
become the way Jac did business.
Jac thinks that just because he J-OVA: SABBOTH
stiffed you, if enough time goes by,
then everything is ok. Only in wrestling DEFENDER?
does a mentality like that exist and
now with Jac in PWS, all the people he
screwed in the past are coming back,
because they see Jac for what he is -
another potential payday.
It should also be made mention
that Jac had no formal training
the Doghouse once, got his hand
broken and that was it. However, that
didn't stop Jac from booking himself
Indy geek defends Sabboth in
to pin Simon Diamond, a few months
indy geek website interview
after pretending to be New Jack. Jac
Remember the name Jonny
was a huge ECW fan so to able to
Ova? How about Joey Maxx?
copy, emulate and beat these ECW No? Well, no one does, not
guys, it would lead to Jac's underwear even the nerdy interns
here at the Boozeletter.
and hands being very sticky & hairy
However, extensive
during this time. research via Google shows
that he’s the only man to
I also want to point out that
ever defend Sabboth
through all the years Harry Slash knew publicly in an interview.
Jac, he was never witness to some of Just what did J-Ova have
to say about the promoter?
the silliness but always there to
witness the aftermath. In some way, MiC: There has been a
rumor on several message
Harry was a father figure to Jac that
boards that you were one
Jac never wanted to disappoint in of the people that was
stiffed by Sabboth after
person. We tried to get Harry to chime
the recent ICW show. Can
in a few Sabboth stories, but Harry you comment on that and
told us that while he's heard all the let people know if that is
a true or false statement?
craziness and knows about all the
money troubles and how Jac has Ova: That is the key word
- “RUMOR”. There was and
screwed people over, he's never seen
absolutely is no heat
anything first hand. Harry Slash's between me and Sabboth. I
think he’s a great
promoter and would’ve
loved to worked his last
show, but I’ll be there
for his next one at the
Elk’s Lodge!
Not sick of the story yet? Page 7
has the list of the stiffed...
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 These shows, that Jac loved The problem with Jac is that he

THE STIFFED LIST

doing, were just not profitable. Jac will thinks its ok because it's wrestling. If
tell you to this day that UCW was a he can't pay someone what he
trendsetter for ROH and in some ways, promised or owes them, he figures he
it probably was. The Low Ki vs Xavier will just be forgiven. Jac never realized
feud is something that Jac will still talk that things don't work that way. You
about when he's 90, even if first Ki/ just don't go bootlegging people's
Xavier matches took place in USA Pro. footage. You just don't come through
The thing Jac always had going for on paying people. A child would
Who Got him is that he understood that fans understand that, but for some reason
Screwed? didn't want to see the ticket sellers Jac never could. Just because he was
that Goodman put on his USA PW losing money on bad investments
shows. Jac would go on to tell me, the doesn't mean you get a pass on your
Little Guido(Nunzio)
King Kong Bundy worst thing he ever did was put Ken bills and debts. A real man always
The Iron Sheik Sweeney in one of his main events, as honors his debts and bills and Jac just
Eric Simms
Goodman would always put on top wasn't a real man.
Abdullah The Butcher
The SAT main events, rather than ticket selling It was also around 2002, when Jac
Red trash. was having problems keeping his
Quiet Storm
Mike Tobin and Danny Drake At this time, there were rumors promotion afloat, that his personal life
Mike Norman and Larry and even get-togethers were fans was revealed.
McKinney
Mikey Whipwreck would sneak into Jac's show. Frank Years ago, before Jac was playing
Wayne Goodman would encourage it as he wrestling, Jac's wife left him for
Jim Molenioux
got a kick out of it, just like most of us (another) woman. Either Jac turned his
Billy Caputo
Big Dick Dudley do. Fans would sneak into Jac's wife lesbo or she realized that "The
Bam Bam Bigelow shows through the fire escape. Jac Stiffer" was just a wrestling and not
Frank Goodman
Rob Feinstein wouldn't notice because he was too bedtime nickname. Regardless, Jac's
RF Video busy wondering what ECW guy to wife was gone. As I said before,
The Elks Lodge
beat or what he could jump off next or despite all the crap Jac has done in
Sportsfest
Club Amazura if he could bounce his checkbook like wrestling, the one thing that is
The Road Warriors a basketball. Jac would also heavily honorable about him is his devotion to
Demolition Ax
Homicide paper his shows but still would be his daughter. Jac would win legal
Low-ki lucky to break 200. Most shows in NY custody of his daughter, a rarity in
Julio Dinero
Chris Hamrick require you to draw 250 paid just to today's day and age. It is when I see
Nick Knowledge break even before you even book the Jac with his daughter that I wonder
Steve DeAngelis
wrestlers, and Jac simply wasn't doing why he ever got involved in this
Harry Slash
Harrington Talents that. business. When you see Jac with his
Psycho Sam Dudley The sad thing, there are many daughter, he comes off as this good
Da Baldies
Sabu names missing from the above list, guy but once the wrestling is involved,
Sandman such as Greg Stengel, Donnie Bon he turns into this sicko creepy
Chris Candido and Tammy
Jovi, the entire WSU 7/14/07 roster conman.
Missy Hyatt
Dwayne aka Splinter (which was saved by a generous The conclusion of part one of the
Mike Johnson donation from a fan) & many others. Jac Sabboth story is on page 8...
Xavier
cont. on page 8 sidebar...

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 This would then turn into Jac while Jac was stiffing all the wrestlers
finding another woman, named Ida, and Frank, he also stiffed his store bills
who he wanted to make the next
Sabboth. For those wondering, Ida
and the store was shut down for good
in 2003.
STIFF LIST PT 2
was kinda hot, so at least Jac had that It was also around this time Jac
going for him. Jac wanted to get her a was talking about expanding his
huge engagement ring but he had no operations. Jac wanted to get TV time
money after blowing it all in his on Time Warner. Several people have
wrestling store & on UCW shows. Jac, told me that Jac made a $350,000
went to the one person that he knew deal with them where he would pay for
had money, or rather his father's time. Of course, this never came
money, Frank Goodman. through. Jac admitted this to me also,
Goodman would lend Jac $35,000 but didn't admit the money figure, as
for an overpriced engagement ring. the money figure came from people in
The List Goes On!
Just like most of Jac's wrestling the know.
Crowbar
ventures, the marriage thing didn't go Next week in the Sabboth the
Simon Diamond
through, so Jac was in the hole to Stiffer story: kids on message Sabboths parents
Goodman after Ida left him. Jac would boards punk Sabboth out in Johnny Ova
Low Life Louie
have to make payments to Frank for person...Balls gets dicked...Abby the Ian Rotten
the next several months. To Jac's Butcher gets involved...PWInsider’s Balls Mahoney
Jimmy Snuka
credit, according to Frank, Jac paid Mike Johnson puts money and indy The Metal Maniac
$33,000 of the $35,000 and decided tapes down on a bet with Ricky O
that was enough, instead of paying the promoters...kids throwing dead Shane Douglas
Matt Striker
full amount. When Frank finally had pigeons...feedback and Sabboth Damian Dragon
enough of the waiting and BS game, stories told by the marks...so much Taz
Bret Hart
Frank went to Jac's store, only to find more... Danny Demanto
out that Jac closed it. It seems that Mike Zevon
Kevin Matthews
Time Warner Cable-$350,000
in the hole.
His Landlord
Ref Hanson
The Sabboth Story Valentina
Continues Next Week! U Haul
Atlas Security
This Fat Indy Geek Gets Figures Inc-$5,000 in the
Blown by a Hooker and hole.
Low-Ryda
Stabbed in the Leg! Boogalou
Eddie Guapo
Chris Devine
Doink the Clown
Sal Pinto
Eddie Puta's Bodega
Xavier
Jules
Club Amazura
A local ticket printing
shop

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