WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett recently took to an episode of his “My World with Jeff Jarrett,” where he discussed why he left the WWE in July of 1995 after facing Shawn Michaels at “In Your House 2” for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
Jeff Jarrett said:
“Lack of communication and I’ll take full responsibility.” “I’ll still stick to my guns that the package of Double J, and we’re still talking about it today. You would’ve thought oh man, Jeff and Brian, they were together a couple of years. We were on screen together six months, that to me is a little bit of validation that we really had something. I bet I had 3 or 4 conversations [with Vince]. ‘Ah, Vince, I really think it’s premature, I don’t think we need to pull the trigger.’ We had talked about another video, we talked about multiple videos, we talked about an album.”
“You have to remember, CDs in the 90s were printing money. Living in Nashville and knowing the amount of money that was being distributed, the country music industry, there were a whole slew of acts in the early 90s they literally blew this town up from a financial perspective, all the money that was being created. As hot as the country music business was and knowing that Brian can sing his ass off as good or better than most folks out there, it’s not my opinion, I’m talking about music execs.”
Jeff Jarrett then talked about having a conversation with WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon about if they can reconsider the storyline change, but he was not interested.
Jeff Jarrett said:
“The only thing I know to do is, once we shoot the angle, it’s game set and match.” “The title is inconsequential to our storyline. Our storyline is between us. I went to the well again Sunday, I’ll never forget it. I’m standing on stage next to Vince and we’re going over the performance and I say ‘Vince, can we reconsider this? I don’t think so, I really don’t think we should do this.’ [Vince said] ‘Nope, no,’ he really didn’t even give me the time of day.”
Jeff Jarrett then talked about the plans walking into his match against Shawn Michaels as well as the plans following the matchup.
Jeff Jarrett said:
“Here was sort of the Jeff plan, drop the title, Shawn is my buddy, it’s business, I’m not going to prohibit anybody from doing their thing.” “But if I don’t do the angle with Road Dogg, my plan was to leave the building, let the dust settle and the meeting of the minds would take place. A week, two weeks, three weeks, I just didn’t foresee Vince McMahon being furious and Bruce [Prichard] being irate and Pat [Paterson] saying ‘Let’s move on.’ I’m putting words in their mouths but I’m not putting words in Vince’s, Vince was furious.“
