Jeff Jarrett is Going After Former WWE Talent for Global Force Wrestling

GFW Owner and former WWE, WCW, NWA, and TNA superstar Jeff Jarrett is going after former WWE talent for Global Force Wrestling events that are upcoming. As previously reported, GFW is set to begin holding shows in Minor League Baseball stadiums throughout June leading up to the company’s upcoming broadcast television event on July 24.

While details have been dropping about the GFW “Grand Slam Tour,” and the televised event from Las Vegas on July 24 has been announced, there has been little-to-no information released in regards to what talent will be working the shows.

According to the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Jarrett is going after well-known talent that isn’t under contract with Ring of Honor or WWE. Former stars such as former WWE, ECW, and TNA Tag Team Champions Team 3-D (The Dudley Boyz), former WWE Intercontinental Champion Shelton Benjamin, former WWE superstar Chris Masters, among others.

Meltzer writes,

“Jeff Jarrett has been contacting talent of late. We don’t know all the people contacted but if guys are good and not under contract with ROH or TNA, or guys whose contracts he knows are expiring, those are the guys he’s after. We’ve heard mixed bags on pay.

Scott D’Amore and Sonjay Dutt are working with Jarrett from an office capacity as well. Dutt has been calling talent. Jarrett has offered at least some talent the possibility of 39 dates, although the company has noted they’ve got the 12 dates confirmed which were announced and the other 27 are dates not yet confirmed. They are now calling a ton of people, pretty much the guys in ROH without a contract are the key names we’ve heard, with Roderick Strong being the biggest name out of that group.

Other names we’ve heard being talked with include Team 3-D, Shelton Benjamin and Chris Masters. A key to this is going to be whether Jarrett or ROH winds up with the New Japan connection, because a lot of the talent wants to go to New Japan and will align with whichever company can get them there the smoothest.”

Editor’s Note: 

Smart for Jarrett to be going after those types of stars, but they need to start announcing cards soon. Those events begin in a little over a month.