10 WWE Fates Worse Than Burial
3. Jeff Jarrett's Raw/Nitro Blackballing
Jeff Jarrett is the master of all this, so much so that even when this particular fate felt worse than a burial for all those years, 'Double J' never stopped believing that he wouldn't work with Vince McMahon again.
On the debut edition of his new My World podcast, Jarrett admitted that he called McMahon up in 2002 to let him know about TNA's impending existence on the off chance they might work together in some capacity. This, less than three years after their infamous 1999 split and barely a year on from the Chairman playing God the night he celebrated his purchase of WCW.
"The stones on the man to think he'd one day get back in the good books", people might decry if it was anybody but Jarrett, who took a place in the Hall Of Fame in 2018 and started working for the company again a few months later.
On that fateful night in 2001 McMahon seemed to believe he was booting Jarrett out of the industry for real, thanks at very least to his intent not to hire him back.
The backstage vignette in which he apparently just happened to see 'Double J' on Nitro was manufactured for this very reason - it was taped footage of the former World Champion, inserted just so the owner could do his "Capital G, Double-O, Double-N, Double-E – GOONNEE!" bit.