10 Things We Learned From Jeff Jarrett On Stone Cold’s Broken Skull Sessions Podcast
7. Why He Regrets His First WCW Jump
The pair kinda skirted over Jeff and Roadie walking out on the WWF at In Your House 2 during the show. Jarrett did return, but he wasn't long for the company - 'Double J' ended up leaving again after the 1996 Royal Rumble and tried his luck over in WCW as part of The Four Horsemen.
That, as Jeff told Steve, was a huge mistake.
"I knew I couldn't succeed in that corporate environment - I just couldn't do it". That's what Jarrett had to say about WCW. He knew where he stood in the WWF, because Vince was the only boss. Things were rather different in WCW though, and that made it challenging for Jeff to fit in.
There were also a ton of backstage politics going on between the hot new nWo and the old guard lads like Ric Flair and Arn Anderson in the Horsemen. In retrospect, Jeff thinks it was "a blessing in disguise" that he only signed a one year deal.
He was WWF bound again by late-1997.