8 Times Wrestlers Refused To Work With Each Other

In 2022, Jeff Jarrett appeared on the Broken Skull Sessions with Stone Cold Steve Austin and the two chatted like any old former workmates, sharing memories, toasting the good ones and working through the bad. For the two of them, it looked like just another day being semi-retired wrestlers. For everybody watching, it was a cathartic conclusion to one of the more fascinating beefs in wrestling history.

The two weren't afraid to document it, even with all the water that had flowed under the bridge, but that's perhaps because very little of it was still kept secret. Austin in particular had recounted the tales of living on raw potatoes and cans of tuna in Memphis, only to hear the flippant "keep staring at it, it isn't gonna get any bigger" from promoter's son Jeff when looking at his miserable paycheque. 

Almost a decade later, 'Double J' made enemies of half the WWE roster when he returned to the company with a very of-the-time worked shoot promo, but Austin gave him both barrels backstage after Jeff had referred to the gazillion-selling Austin 3:16 shirt as "blasphemous", believing that yet again money could be coming out of his pocket because of the words of this blowhard nepo-baby. Austin brutally and directly returned the favour in once and for all 1999 when, after Jarrett had genuinely cut through as an upper midcard heel, he simply refused a main event programme with him. 

Didn't see him as a guy to try and elevate? Or simply didn't want to see him in the spot after all the small but significant moments of strife between the two of them over the years? The whys didn't matter in 1999. Austin's power did, and a growing rift between Jarrett and 'The Rattlesnake's ally Jim Ross at the time redoubled Jeff's new belief that he needed to go and get some stroke of his own alongside Vince Russo in WCW.