10 Wrestlers Who Achieved The Impossible

7. Jeff Jarrett: Hall Of Famer

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J E Double F didn't make too many B U Double D I Es in the WWF.

Steve Austin hated him, drawing on the memories of potato-eating paydays working for his dad to banter off his main event prospects. That Jarrett tried to work a blasphemy angle at the expense of Austin 3:16 certainly didn't help.

Vince McMahon hated Jarrett for holding him to ransom ahead of No Mercy 1999.

Kevin Dunn hated him because he was southern. Probably.

After Jarrett's laughable WCW main event run delighted even McMahon onscreen, Jarrett committed yet another transgression: he attempted to compete with WWE as founder and key creative figure of Total Nonstop Action, working a Total Nonstop Angle as its top star. It didn't work, and that was key; unlike so many of the crazy reconciliations we've bore witness to in recent times, Jarrett offered little to McMahon as a returnee. A quality worker in his '90s heyday, Double J nonetheless isn't going to sell any double-disc career retrospective BluRays.

All of which made the genuinely moving sight of Jarrett's Hall of Fame induction as moving as it was; it felt like something of a benevolent gesture. We criticise the Hall for its warped criteria and ability to manipulate the narrative, but it evidently means a lot to its inductees.

And, on this incredible evidence, it is an achievement.

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