Jeff Jarrett Is Special Guest Referee For WWE Tag Title Match At SummerSlam 2022
WWE Hall-of-Famer to call match between champs The Usos and Street Profits.
After a botched call during their last tag title match, the Street Profits versus Usos rematch is getting a special guest referee to call the bout.
And that guest ref is WWE Hall-of-Famer Jeff Jarrett. The company's senior vice president of live events was announced Friday during SmackDown as the guy in pinstripes at SummerSlam in two weeks for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match.
At Money in the Bank earlier this month, the Usos defended their tag titles against the Profits, but replays immediately showed that Montez Ford's shoulder was up. This led to the announcement on Raw that there would be a special guest referee for the rematch. Then on SmackDown Friday night, Angelo Dawkins got a singles win over Jimmy Uso, whose shoulder also was off the mat.
.@RealJeffJarrett will be the Special Guest Referee at #SummerSlam!#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/74f6MAvz9n
— WWE (@WWE) July 16, 2022
Jarrett doesn't have any connection to either team, but SummerSlam is taking place in Nashville, Tennessee, and Jeff is from nearby Hendersonville. It's unclear whether this announcement will move some of the few thousand remaining tickets for SummerSlam at Nissan Stadium, but getting a hometown superstar certainly can't hurt. Jarrett is a former one-time WWF Tag Team Champion, with Owen Hart along with six Intercontinental Championship reigns.
Given that this is a rematch and the individual members of the Street Profits and Usos have fought numerous singles matches the past several weeks, this quite possibly could be their last confrontation for a while. Or WWE will decide to try to keep milking this rivalry all the way through the summer.