Marty Jannetty on the Barber Shop Window Being Real and More

I don’t know if this makes it better or worse. I’m sure you’ve seen the famous segment where Marty Jannetty went face first through a glass window. It’s probably the most famous breakup of a team in wrestling history. However, there might be a few details to the story that you haven’t heard before, as shared by Jannetty in a recent interview.

Jannetty was on the “Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast” and spoke on a variety of topics, including the Barber Shop Window incident. In a fairly big surprise, it turns out that the window was real glass. Here are Jannetty’s comments (transcript courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com):

“There was a production guy that had said we had three windows. Two of them were sugar glass and the other one was the regular window for all the time and I said that I knew about the sugar glass but didn’t think it was a real window. He said that’s the thing, that one was real. They didn’t mark the glasses and we didn’t know which was the sugar glass and which was real. He was shaking and was scared and asked that I didn’t say anything and I said look, no harm no foul but DAMN.

“Luckily it worked out but now when I watch The Barber Shop knowing that and like I said if you watch it back you will see there is a piece that was coming down to a “V” shape and was kind of shaking and I’m still laying through the framework and if that piece would have fallen down it would have severed most of my neck off but it all worked out and that is the Barber Shop window deal and 25 years later it is still talked about.”

Jannetty also talked about whether or not he minds the weaker link of a tag team being called the “Marty Jannetty” of the team:

“The Rockers haven’t been together since ’91 and what year is this? They are still talking about them. Even with John Cena, who is the most popular guy there right now,, in twenty-something years from right now do you think they are going to be talking about John Cena? This is 2017, so in 2037 are they going to be talking about John Cena? They may but I kind of doubt it. The legacy and being the Marty Jannetty of the team people a lot of times ask does that bother me. Why would that bother me? Besides the fact I’m getting royalties every time they say it (laughing) it is keeping me alive as far as being in the business. Here is the thing they don’t know; the “Marty Jannetty” is supposed to be the weak link but let me tell you what the Marty Jannetty of the team really is.

“All these guys were not known when they came to me and after they left me they went off to be famous. It is not who is the weak-link of the team it is like the teacher of the world. Billy Gunn used to say that I want to tag with you so bad because they should call you “Springboard Jannetty” because everyone that you tag with shoots to the top. So let that be my legacy and it is pretty much true and all these guys: Sean Waltman, Shawn Michaels, Bob Holly, Al Snow they are all students of mine (laughing).”

While the glass thing is a surprising factoid, I completely agree with Jannetty on the weak link part. I’ve always wondered why being associated with Jannetty was a bad thing. People often forget that Jannetty had a very solid career of his own without Shawn with two Tag Team Title reigns and a run with the Intercontinental Title. I’ve always thought Jim Neidhart was the better example of the weak link in a team while his partner was the huge star. What did Neidhart ever do without Bret Hart around?

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