Jeff Jarrett Involved in Physical Altercation with Son of Indie Promoter

According to a report by Dr. Jerry Wiseman of The Examiner, former TNA executive and current Global Force Wrestling president Jeff Jarrett was involved in a physical altercation with John Calvin, the 17 year old son of IWA Mid-South promoter Ian Rotten at a Mid-South event this past Sunday.

The report notes that Jarrett was unhappy with not receiving the amount of money he was promised. He was given half of what he was owed and told that he would receive the rest in 48-to-72 hours.

This led Jarrett to slapping Calvin’s glasses off his head and/or breaking them.

Rotten later posted the following Facebook post, addressing the aforementioned situation:

“So, I will address the 500 lb elephant in the room in full.

Jeff Jarrett was paid half of his money tonight and was told he would get the rest of it in 2 or 3 days as through one way or another, or just plain stupidity, we forgot to get the advance money out of PayPal. I know it sounds incredibly stupid, but it occurred. Am I embarrassed about it? Yes, but a very intoxicated Jeff Jarretts actions to follow would be absolutely ridiculous and uncalled for. INCLUDING knocking the glasses off of John Calvins face, taking said glasses, and for a time period threatening to not give them back and break them. Screaming at numerous people in the dressing room that it was their fault, they were behind it like some paranoid coked out raging idiot. Not saying he WAS coked out, but I will say he was drunk, him and Karen both and I have a locker room full of people that will back me up on it.

Jeff Jarrett will get his money in a couple days as promised, then he can spend it on a defense attorney as I will be going to the sheriffs department to swear a warrant out on him tomorrow for assault on a minor. This was not some wrestling angle or anything of that nature, and he had no right to take it out on anyone else but me. Don’t get me wrong, I was wrong. We should have had that taken care of, but Jeffs actions after that along with Karen insisting on going out to the ring to interrupt Drakes speech was absolutely despicable. That is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

Editor’s Note

With Jarrett hoping to get his Global Force Wrestling promotion off the ground in the near future, the last thing he needs is for events like this to transpire. It doesn’t look good on him as a man and as a businessman.