10 Times Wrestlers Abused Their Power On TV
3. Total Non-Stop Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett fancied himself as the man who was simply too late to save WCW. Yeah. That was it. He was just too late.
Double J's excellent and candid podcast is so refreshingly un-carny that the man has at last turned babyface amongst the wider pro wrestling fandom. They had already begrudgingly accepted that his credentials as an old school definition worker were too impressive not to respect. Wrestlers really can get away with anything just by growing old, can't they?
Jarrett's a face now. People actually miss John Cena. It's no bloody wonder Vince McMahon exclusively pushes 40 year-olds in 2021. Perhaps the old worker is not so out of touch after all.
On the subject of old workers, Jeff Jarrett worked himself into quite the position as the co-founder of TNA, so much so that his run as A-U, haha, Double S-Double-T-I-N stigmatised the promotion - with the help of Vince Russo of course - as basically WCW 2.0.
Ancient-feeling star suppresses gifted new generation in idiotic promotion where little makes sense: Jarrett's deadening, oppressive heel schtick was preferred, somehow, to the unique and explosive charisma of Monty Brown. "Somehow". Because Double J had the stroke.
Jarrett's face work meanwhile was only perversely entertaining, in that he struggled to pull off being a badass.