25 Most OUT OF POCKET WWE Attitude Era Moments
17. Jeff Jarrett BRAINS The Fabulous Moolah With A Guitar
The Attitude Era was vile in many ways. In a desperate bid to appeal to the knucklehead subcultures of the day, the WWF did almost everything to offend every marginalised community. The relationship between the promotion and the fandom was mutually unpleasant. The WWF punched down with a dangerous 12-6 elbow every single week.
Violence towards women was just one disgusting promotional tactic; Trish Stratus got blasted through more tables than Sabu in the first quarter of 2000.
The thing about the Fabulous Moolah, though, is that she barely qualified as a human being. More of a monster, it was probably OK to let out an involuntary belly laugh when she was the recipient of a weapon shot. Jeff Jarrett, in the midst of his chauvinist pig gimmick, was eager to crack that pitch-black punchline.
In the autumn of 1999, Jeff Jarrett was adamant that women had no place in a man’s ring - but he did have a begrudging respect for the Fabulous Moolah, who had held the Women’s title for “damn near a hundred years”. Moolah did not reciprocate. She said that the only reason she didn’t fight men back in her day was because they knew she’d kick their ass - just like Chyna was gonna kick Jarrett’s ass at No Mercy (and in an ultra-rare progressive development, she did, in her monumentally awesome career highlight).
Jarrett was furious. As Moolah soaked up the pop, Jarrett grabbed his acoustic guitar from Miss Kitty, spun Moolah around, and blasted her right in the dome.
In a second gag, Jarrett also called Mae Young an old bag before torturing her with the figure-four. Young was very game for this sort of thing…