Jeff Jarrett Discusses How Vince McMahon Destroyed WCW

 Former WWE superstar and current TNA manager Jeff Jarrett recently sat down with RealSport and discussed a number of topics. Among them were his upbringing in professional wrestling, his time in WWE, how he feels about TNA alumni going to WWE and more.

It’s no secret that Jarrett has been around the wrestling business since he was a kid. His father, Jerry, was a long-time promoter, and Jeff says that he never considered doing anything else with his life.

“I never really considered it. I was a basketball junkie and was delusional enough to think I could make a career – well, I never thought I’d make a career. But I went to one year of college ball, very happy, academic All-American, but I knew real quick at the end of that season that that wasn’t in my future. So I got into wrestling pretty quick and the funny thing is, I left the basketball team and they won the junior college basketball championship the year after, so that tells you how good I was.”

In the heat of the “Monday Night Wars” between then WWF and WCW, Jarrett spent time in both promotions. He says that he’s not surprised that Vince McMahon ended up coming out on top and purchasing his competition.

“Vince McMahon, he’s third generation, and his enormous empire, he ran it much like the territories. The buck stopped with him, he made the decisions, that’s how a company should be run. Feast or famine, right or wrong, the WWE is driven off his decision making and always has been. WCW was a corporate world. Eric Bischoff, I have a lot of respect for the guy, because he not only survived, but he thrived in a corporate environment that was so difficult to succeed in. Was he the only decision maker? Not at all. It’s a corporate entity, and a publicly traded company, so it’s really not a knock on Turner and Time Warner and that organisation, but that’s the reality.

An entertainment property, specifically a wrestling property, you have to have a decision maker. You have to have somebody who sits on top, that is guiding the ship, that makes the decisions. They were polar opposites, and in the end, the WCW money got them in first place for a while, with Eric’s leadership and the hot talent, but in the end, Vince destroyed them.”

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Both Jerry and Jeff Jarrett were the founders of TNA, and saw the rise of current WWE superstars AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Bobby Roode, Eric Young and others. “The Chosen One” says that he is more than thrilled at the success that those guys are having with Vince McMahon’s company.

“I couldn’t be more happy for those guys. I saw AJ in Nashville a couple of weeks ago. It was great to see him. We’ve stayed in contact, obviously through the New Japan relationship I got to see AJ quite a bit. Proud is a word, happy is a word. Going back to AJ debuting at the Royal Rumble, and the reaction he got, it put a huge smile on me and Karen’s face, because AJ and his family are a huge part of my professional life, and personal life to a certain degree, from 2002 on.”

AJ, Bobby [Roode], Samoa Joe, Eric Young’s coming in – it’s very obvious that I had nothing to do with their departure, and of course from a business point of view it’s unfortunate, but also just to follow that up from a business point of view, it’s one of the things that energises me most about 2017 and beyond, is who is that next AJ Styles, who is that next Bobby Roode and Samoa Joe. They’re out there – they’re in this country actually – so that’s one of the things that really excites me about the future of Impact and Global Force.”

They also discuss his feud with Chyna, working outside of TNA and more.

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