During the latest recording of his own My World with Jeff Jarrett, WWE Hall Of Famer Jeff Jarrett reflected on the early days of TNA.
The current All Elite Wrestling Director of Business Development and in-ring talent also shared his thoughts on Vince Russo, and so much more.
Featured below are the highlights from the podcast.
On conversations with Goldberg in '03:
“Not at this point. I think what Dixie had a lunch with him several years later that I think you could classify on Dixie’s part for sure substantial. I don’t think on Bill’s part and it’s strictly about money. Barry Bloom repped him all these years. Bill made a lot of money at WCW he made a lot of money at WWE. That, you know, Bill’s a business man first and foremost. So, I never viewed any of the conversations with Bill substantial strictly off of there isn’t enough money there for Bill to come.”
On Vince Russo:
“You know, Vince had his success at WWF and then we’ll say he didn’t have success at WCW. But who did have success at WCW? I was there in ’99, 2000 until the doors shut. So, if you want to put everything on Vince, that’s just not really a reality. Did he make some, I’ll call them mistakes, or flaws or maybe? Bad booking or bad angles, that happens all day, everyday in our industry because creative is subjective. But, it goes without saying just as you said, Sean Waltman, Sting, Goldberg and several others, Mike Tenay, others that didn’t. I think the easiest way is, and maybe if Mike Tenay would have sat down with me and he did, but I’m just saying. I think his line of thinking from a logical perspective just does the good outweigh the bad or the bad outweigh the good… My delusional optimism sometimes was a blessing for me and also sometimes it was a curse. I think to this day sometimes I’m not sure which it was, but yeah those points were always in the back of my mind. Just the fact of getting Jim Cornette and Vince Russo to work together from time to time was maybe a challenge that I just said, ‘I’m gonna get this done one way or another because they’re both valuable to the industry’… I always saw the best, in my mind, out of everybody.”
