10 Superstars Who Burned WWE Bridges… But Still Returned
4. Jeff Jarrett
Forget J-E-Double F J-A-Double R-E-Double T, for Jeff Jarrett was well and truly on Vince McMahon’s S-H-*-T L-I-S-T for years.
These days, Double J is a WWE Hall of Famer who works behind the scenes as a producer and agent, but the working relationship between Jarrett and WWE was in the deepest and darkest toilet bowl for the longest time.
Jeff initially left the then-WWF to jump ship to WCW in 1996 following a contract issue, yet McMahon welcomed the six-time Intercontinental Champion back into the company a year later. That wasn’t the end of the problems between these two parties, of course.
By the time of 1999’s No Mercy PPV, Jarrett was in the enviable position of having Vince by the balls. The current IC Champ who was scheduled to lose the gold to Chyna at that show, it turned out that The Chosen One’s WWF contract expired one day before that PPV. As such, with that ace card in his back pocket, Jeff demanded (and was paid) $300,000 to lose to Chyna.
So soured was the relationship between McMahon and Jarrett, Vince fired Jeff on live TV after Vinny Mac had purchased WCW in 2001. And from there, Jeff Jarrett was left out in the wrestling cold and forced to start up his own company in the form of TNA.
It took a total of 19 years and for hell to freeze over, but this four-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and six-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion now finds himself back in the good graces of WWE.