6 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (July 7)

6. Jeff Jarrett Has Only Gone And Bloody Done It

News broke this week that Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling - not so much a wrestling organisation as an actual Ponzi scheme - has subsumed the Impact Wrestling brand and has become a promotion for the first time in its three year non-history.

A brief account of that non-history: Jeff Jarrett founded GFW in 2014. The aim was to create a coalition of wrestling leagues under one banner in order to maximise their individual resources and compete with WWE. It didn't work out.

Jarrett was exposed as a charlatan mere months into the venture when he embellished the success of the one good thing he did - bringing NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 into U.S. homes - by taking near sole credit for its creative success, with which he had nothing to do. The charlatan tag stuck when Jarrett posted a video encouraging viewers to watch another video advertising "Karatbars" - extortionate gold bars you have to extort suckers to make money back from in a pyramid recruitment programme, the likes of which are mostly illegal. Jarrett mustn't have experienced success with this, either; the ugly GFW belts were silver and green in colour.

Mere months after finalising a protracted transition from Total Nonstop Action to Impact Wrestling, Jeff Jarrett has somehow persuaded Anthem officials to go with the joke GFW branding in place of the Impact branding officials attempted for years to implement. To be fair, the options were "toxic" or "nonexistent", so in effect, the group is starting from scratch. Only, adding to the confusion, Impact Wrestling has been retained as the name of the promotion's TV show.

Really, it should have been abandoned altogether. It is almost profoundly ironic; the group was never more irrelevant than it was between the TNA and GFW eras.