10 Wrestling Promos That Started REAL Backstage Heat

6. Jeff Jarrett And Steve Austin

Speaking of Russo, he revealed in a recent interview that he once wrote a promo for Jeff Jarrett that ruined his entire working relationship with Steve Austin. Which is some going…

“After giving him his words, Jeff read through the promo and came back to me. During his promo he was just going to add in there a part about Austin’s use of 3:16, and how blasphemous Jeff felt that phrase was. He was also going to accuse Steve of using the Bible reference as a tool to strictly make money. Jeff went out and cut his promo—adding his 3:16 thoughts—and Steve was on the other side of the curtain waiting for him when he came back. Steve was freakin’ furious, I mean his bald head was BLOOD RED. As soon as Jeff came to the back, Steve was verbally all over him holding nothing back. He told Jeff that he was messin’ with his livelihood and that he didn’t appreciate that. Jeff back-peddled like I’ve never seen anyone back-peddle before... or since. It was literally the heel backing off the baby - but, this was not scripted. After the explosive tongue lashing, Steve tracked me down. He gave me CLEAR instructions to NEVER book him with that Son of a B*tch.”