Former Impact Wrestling owner and WCW World Champion Jeff Jarrett has officially joined the WWE Creative team, PWInsider.com can exclusively report. We are told this is a full-time executive level role in the company.
It is the latest move by WWE to bolster their creative team with Bruce Prichard brought back in as a Senior Vice President several weeks ago and Paul Heyman being more and more intimately involved in writing and producing of the Ronda Rousey and Brock Lesnar Wrestlemania storylines.
Jarrett, who returned to WWE this past January with a cameo in the 2019 Royal Rumble, had initially been hired as a Producer for the company. He was involved in last week’s WWE Production meetings at the TV tapings and we are told Jarrett spent several days last week at WWE HQ in advance of being officially added to the team.
Jarrett, a third-generation professional wrestler and promoter, initially broke into the business under his father and Jerry Lawler’s Memphis wrestling territory, where he worked as a babyface, feuding with the likes of The Moondogs, Jerry Lawler and Eric Embry among others. His feud with Embry for the World Class Light Heavyweight Championship gave him his first national exposure and his PPV debut at the AWA Superclash III event.
Jarrett was brought up to the WWF as “Double J” Jeff Jarrett, a purported country singing sensation who had come to the WWF to become the biggest star in wrestling. He had several runs with the Intercontinental Championship and was one of the top heels in the company, although he was never one of the definitive top villains. He worked house show main events and feuded with Chyna, Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon, among others and helped introduce The Road Dogg to WWF TV as his “Roadie.” Perhaps the most memorable part of the run beyond his work in the ring was the now-immortal “Being with My Baby Tonight” theme song, which Jarrett and Road Dogg sang during Jarrett’s WWE Hall of Fame induction last year. Jarrett also teamed with the late Owen Hart in what was a really entertaining tag team.
Jarrett also had several dalliances with WCW. The first saw him become a member of the Four Horsemen. The second saw Jarrett have several WCW World title runs towards the final years of the promotion. When WWF purchased WCW and shut it down in 2001, Jarrett found himself on the outs, likely due to his second and final exit from WWF. With his WWF contract having already expired and a WCW deal on the table, Jarrett, the reigning Intercontinental Champion, wasn’t willing to step into the ring and drop the belt to Chyna until he had been wired all money that would have been owned him. WWF, at the time, paid PPV bonuses several months later, but Jarrett asked for it all up front. They finally agreed and once Jarrett had confirmed the money was wired to him, he went on to have an entertaining “Good Housekeeping” brawl with Chyna, putting over the only female Intercontinental Champion in WWE history.
While relations would WWE would obviously thaw out, at that point, Jarrett was left on the outside. A boating trip with Bob Ryder and his father led to a brainstorming session, leading to the Jarretts founding TNA (now Impact Wrestling) in 2002 with plans of running a weekly promotion with its TV series airing specifically as PPV. When that initial concept didn't work (and initial investor HealthSouth pulled out), the majority ownership of the company was sold to Panda Energy. Jerry Jarrett was later bought out of his ownership by Panda as well.
Jarrett was the early top star for the promotion, working as the heel everything was built around, becoming a six-time NWA Champion. Jarrett was heavily involved in all facets of the company, which at times left him open to criticism of how much he was featured. Jarrett would always privately state that when someone else who could handle that role came into the company, he would back off. That turned out to be true several years later when Kurt Angle came into the company and quickly became one of the top TNA attractions.
Jarrett remained on camera as an important part of storylines but began focusing more on his behind the scenes duties. With the exception of a time period where Jarrett took time off from the company out of respect due to then-personal issues between Kurt Angle and his ex-wife Karen (who Jarrett had begun dating and later married), Jarrett remained one of the main cogs in the TNA machine and was heavily involved in developing new TNA programming, such as Ring Ka King for Endemol in India and the All Wheels Wrestling TV pilot that meshed pro wrestling and car racing.
Jarrett resigned from TNA in late 2013 and formed Global Force Wrestling in April 2014. Although he forged a relationship with American Ninja Warrior producers A. Smith & Company and filmed 16 episodes of a potential series GFW Amped! Jarrett was unable to find a TV home for the project. While he ran a number of live events, the GFW journey was a slow growth.
Jarrett was brought back to TNA and placed in their Hall of Fame after being approached by Dixie Carter with a deal that would see her buy out his minority ownership in the company as well as give his GFW TV time. Jarrett privately told several he was close with that he couldn’t believe such a great offer had been handed to him and he would have been crazy not to take it.
As it turned out, Carter would eventually lose control of the company to Anthem Media after they called in debts she had incurred to them. Anthem took over ownership and production of Impact and brought Jarrett in, originally as a consultant, and then to become Chief Creative Officer. Jarrett’s approach appeared to be to burn down anything he could that could be connected to Impact during the time he was away, even changing the company name to GFW. When personal issues led to the company dismissing him, the GFW name was dropped and changed back to Impact. Jarrett remains embroiled in a lawsuit over the company’s use of the GFW name and footage.
After addressing his personal issues, Jarrett was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, opening the doors for his eventual return to the company, and now, a full-time executive position with the company. He had also been working for the Fite.TV app prior to returning full-time to WWE.
It is the latest move by WWE to bolster their creative team with Bruce Prichard brought back in as a Senior Vice President several weeks ago and Paul Heyman being more and more intimately involved in writing and producing of the Ronda Rousey and Brock Lesnar Wrestlemania storylines.
Jarrett, who returned to WWE this past January with a cameo in the 2019 Royal Rumble, had initially been hired as a Producer for the company. He was involved in last week’s WWE Production meetings at the TV tapings and we are told Jarrett spent several days last week at WWE HQ in advance of being officially added to the team.
Jarrett, a third-generation professional wrestler and promoter, initially broke into the business under his father and Jerry Lawler’s Memphis wrestling territory, where he worked as a babyface, feuding with the likes of The Moondogs, Jerry Lawler and Eric Embry among others. His feud with Embry for the World Class Light Heavyweight Championship gave him his first national exposure and his PPV debut at the AWA Superclash III event.
Jarrett was brought up to the WWF as “Double J” Jeff Jarrett, a purported country singing sensation who had come to the WWF to become the biggest star in wrestling. He had several runs with the Intercontinental Championship and was one of the top heels in the company, although he was never one of the definitive top villains. He worked house show main events and feuded with Chyna, Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon, among others and helped introduce The Road Dogg to WWF TV as his “Roadie.” Perhaps the most memorable part of the run beyond his work in the ring was the now-immortal “Being with My Baby Tonight” theme song, which Jarrett and Road Dogg sang during Jarrett’s WWE Hall of Fame induction last year. Jarrett also teamed with the late Owen Hart in what was a really entertaining tag team.
Jarrett also had several dalliances with WCW. The first saw him become a member of the Four Horsemen. The second saw Jarrett have several WCW World title runs towards the final years of the promotion. When WWF purchased WCW and shut it down in 2001, Jarrett found himself on the outs, likely due to his second and final exit from WWF. With his WWF contract having already expired and a WCW deal on the table, Jarrett, the reigning Intercontinental Champion, wasn’t willing to step into the ring and drop the belt to Chyna until he had been wired all money that would have been owned him. WWF, at the time, paid PPV bonuses several months later, but Jarrett asked for it all up front. They finally agreed and once Jarrett had confirmed the money was wired to him, he went on to have an entertaining “Good Housekeeping” brawl with Chyna, putting over the only female Intercontinental Champion in WWE history.
While relations would WWE would obviously thaw out, at that point, Jarrett was left on the outside. A boating trip with Bob Ryder and his father led to a brainstorming session, leading to the Jarretts founding TNA (now Impact Wrestling) in 2002 with plans of running a weekly promotion with its TV series airing specifically as PPV. When that initial concept didn't work (and initial investor HealthSouth pulled out), the majority ownership of the company was sold to Panda Energy. Jerry Jarrett was later bought out of his ownership by Panda as well.
Jarrett was the early top star for the promotion, working as the heel everything was built around, becoming a six-time NWA Champion. Jarrett was heavily involved in all facets of the company, which at times left him open to criticism of how much he was featured. Jarrett would always privately state that when someone else who could handle that role came into the company, he would back off. That turned out to be true several years later when Kurt Angle came into the company and quickly became one of the top TNA attractions.
Jarrett remained on camera as an important part of storylines but began focusing more on his behind the scenes duties. With the exception of a time period where Jarrett took time off from the company out of respect due to then-personal issues between Kurt Angle and his ex-wife Karen (who Jarrett had begun dating and later married), Jarrett remained one of the main cogs in the TNA machine and was heavily involved in developing new TNA programming, such as Ring Ka King for Endemol in India and the All Wheels Wrestling TV pilot that meshed pro wrestling and car racing.
Jarrett resigned from TNA in late 2013 and formed Global Force Wrestling in April 2014. Although he forged a relationship with American Ninja Warrior producers A. Smith & Company and filmed 16 episodes of a potential series GFW Amped! Jarrett was unable to find a TV home for the project. While he ran a number of live events, the GFW journey was a slow growth.
Jarrett was brought back to TNA and placed in their Hall of Fame after being approached by Dixie Carter with a deal that would see her buy out his minority ownership in the company as well as give his GFW TV time. Jarrett privately told several he was close with that he couldn’t believe such a great offer had been handed to him and he would have been crazy not to take it.
As it turned out, Carter would eventually lose control of the company to Anthem Media after they called in debts she had incurred to them. Anthem took over ownership and production of Impact and brought Jarrett in, originally as a consultant, and then to become Chief Creative Officer. Jarrett’s approach appeared to be to burn down anything he could that could be connected to Impact during the time he was away, even changing the company name to GFW. When personal issues led to the company dismissing him, the GFW name was dropped and changed back to Impact. Jarrett remains embroiled in a lawsuit over the company’s use of the GFW name and footage.
After addressing his personal issues, Jarrett was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, opening the doors for his eventual return to the company, and now, a full-time executive position with the company. He had also been working for the Fite.TV app prior to returning full-time to WWE.
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Attitude Still on “Fuck It”
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Attitude Still on “Fuck It”
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If u Google who gives a fuck. My name ain't there!
One of the big topics of conversation at this week’s Smackdown tapings were the future of Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows, PWInsider.com has learned.
The former WWE Raw and multi-time IWGP Tag Team Champions have been among the talents that WWE management approached about signing new deals well in advance of their current contracts expiring this fall.
While Gallows, 35 years old and Anderson, 39, had multiple meetings with WWE about their future, we have been told by three sources over the last two days that the pair have turned down “multi-million-dollar deals” from the company and intend to exit after their current deals expire.
From sources we have spoken to, part of the reason the pair are looking to exit is how they have been handled in recent years. While they were signed with great fanfare at the onset of 2016 and debuted in April of that year, the last several years have seen the team relegated to live events and inconsistent televised appearances and storylines. A planned WWE Network series starring the pair titled Botch Club was abruptly dropped after its debut episode as well.
One source pointed out that while the pair has been brought to TV, they aren’t currently even being booked on live events, claiming their removal followed initial meetings that didn’t lead to a new deal.
Obviously, Gallows and Anderson would be in demand should they leave the company. Karl Anderson was a cornerstone performer for New Japan Pro Wrestling and Gallows, upon joining the promotion after his WWE Straight Edge Society run alongside CM Punk, found himself in a major way. Of course, they would also likely be coveted by All Elite Wrestling, which has pushed it wants tag teams to main event their shows. Gallows and Anderson have a long past relationship with members of the Elite from their time in NJPW and Ring of Honor. ROH could also be a possibility, as could Impact Wrestling, since the management team there would not be the one that Gallows and Anderson negotiated with then turned down to sign with WWE in 2016.
Before their WWE run, Anderson spent a long time working for New Japan as one of the cornerstones of the original Bullet Club franchise, teaming with Giant Bernard (Matt Bloom, current WWE Performance Center Head Coach) before meshing with Gallows. Gallows had a long run in WWE under a myriad of personalities, including a long-forgotten fake Kane and Festus before finding himself as a performer as Luke Gallows. Upon leaving WWE, he was rechristened Doc Gallows in New Japan, returning to the Luke name when he returned to WWE. The team's WWE debut almost didn't come to pass as they were negotiating, along with AJ Styles to go to Impact Wrestling. Before signing their deals, a call was made to WWE management, which was willing to sign all three, changing their trajectories within minutes and leading to all three instead heading to WWE.
While obviously there is a long period of time between March and late September (which two sources have stated it the end of Gallows and Anderson’s current WWE deals), as of this week, the talk among wrestlers in the company is that the pair are determined to find their futures outside of World Wrestling Entertainment.
The former WWE Raw and multi-time IWGP Tag Team Champions have been among the talents that WWE management approached about signing new deals well in advance of their current contracts expiring this fall.
While Gallows, 35 years old and Anderson, 39, had multiple meetings with WWE about their future, we have been told by three sources over the last two days that the pair have turned down “multi-million-dollar deals” from the company and intend to exit after their current deals expire.
From sources we have spoken to, part of the reason the pair are looking to exit is how they have been handled in recent years. While they were signed with great fanfare at the onset of 2016 and debuted in April of that year, the last several years have seen the team relegated to live events and inconsistent televised appearances and storylines. A planned WWE Network series starring the pair titled Botch Club was abruptly dropped after its debut episode as well.
One source pointed out that while the pair has been brought to TV, they aren’t currently even being booked on live events, claiming their removal followed initial meetings that didn’t lead to a new deal.
Obviously, Gallows and Anderson would be in demand should they leave the company. Karl Anderson was a cornerstone performer for New Japan Pro Wrestling and Gallows, upon joining the promotion after his WWE Straight Edge Society run alongside CM Punk, found himself in a major way. Of course, they would also likely be coveted by All Elite Wrestling, which has pushed it wants tag teams to main event their shows. Gallows and Anderson have a long past relationship with members of the Elite from their time in NJPW and Ring of Honor. ROH could also be a possibility, as could Impact Wrestling, since the management team there would not be the one that Gallows and Anderson negotiated with then turned down to sign with WWE in 2016.
Before their WWE run, Anderson spent a long time working for New Japan as one of the cornerstones of the original Bullet Club franchise, teaming with Giant Bernard (Matt Bloom, current WWE Performance Center Head Coach) before meshing with Gallows. Gallows had a long run in WWE under a myriad of personalities, including a long-forgotten fake Kane and Festus before finding himself as a performer as Luke Gallows. Upon leaving WWE, he was rechristened Doc Gallows in New Japan, returning to the Luke name when he returned to WWE. The team's WWE debut almost didn't come to pass as they were negotiating, along with AJ Styles to go to Impact Wrestling. Before signing their deals, a call was made to WWE management, which was willing to sign all three, changing their trajectories within minutes and leading to all three instead heading to WWE.
While obviously there is a long period of time between March and late September (which two sources have stated it the end of Gallows and Anderson’s current WWE deals), as of this week, the talk among wrestlers in the company is that the pair are determined to find their futures outside of World Wrestling Entertainment.
TonyDubbz
Legion of Trill | Keep god in ya life, fuck nigga
FOX Reportedly Asking for Commentating & Other Changes on Smackdown
As per a source with the company, when Smackdown Live moves to FOX later this year, the broadcast station wants some changes to the program. Specifically, FOX is looking to move away from WWE's current three person commentating booth to a two-man booth instead.
The source adds that FOX is also looking for WWE to produce a more edgier product and that they aren't looking to give into the PC culture that dominates current WWE programming.
@ the bolded and underlined thats why Rousey been trying to go off script lately & im wit it!
Expect her on SD whenever she done w/ her break
As per a source with the company, when Smackdown Live moves to FOX later this year, the broadcast station wants some changes to the program. Specifically, FOX is looking to move away from WWE's current three person commentating booth to a two-man booth instead.
The source adds that FOX is also looking for WWE to produce a more edgier product and that they aren't looking to give into the PC culture that dominates current WWE programming.
@ the bolded and underlined thats why Rousey been trying to go off script lately & im wit it!
Expect her on SD whenever she done w/ her break
TonyDubbz
Legion of Trill | Keep god in ya life, fuck nigga
I agree
but a lot of this current shit is corny as hell.
I would be cool if I never had to see another Lucha House Party or No Jose segment again
also being edgy might mean we get better promos with no corny lines
Farris2k1
The true great demon
This^^^, im all about ppl not stickin to script and speakin how they really feel, blood bein a norm, chairs to the dome again, pushin boundries etc, fox knows that pg shit is wack af more often than not and damn near all fans agree