2023-07-26 07:00:00
Alex Shelley is full of praise for the great Jeff Jarrett.
The IMPACT World Champion spoke regarding Double-J during a virtual signing with Captain’s Corner, where he called AEW’s current director of business development the smartest man in all of pro wrestling. Shelley explains that the wrestling industry would be forever different without Jarrett, citing his creation of TNA and his work in WWE/WCW as prime examples.
He (Jeff Jarrett) is probably the smartest man in wrestling, isn’t he? He’s probably the smartest guy I’ve ever met. He’s just a genius. He survived different eras of wrestling and he had so many different experiences and wrestled everyone. , how can you not be a genius at this time? Coming to Memphis like that and then transitioning into the WWF style is totally different, isn’t it? It’s a totally different game, so from a wrestler’s perspective, the things that you were doing that worked there aren’t necessarily going to work in the North, but they did, and then go from there in WCW at the right time, then go back to the WWF and give him a gimmick or he decided. I don’t know which one but it wasn’t necessarily great with the NWA stuff. Remember when he had Miami colors – the Dolphins sort of? And then transitioning to cutting his hair in a match with X-Pac and then becoming a top heel, it’s just amazing, and starting a business. Without Jeff Jarrett, the wrestling business as we know it would be totally different. I mean totally different. I don’t know if we (Motor City Machine Guns) would have had careers in all honesty, so the utmost respect to Jeff.
Shelley later points out how good Jarrett was in the main event of Ric Flair’s Last Match, where he and Jay Lethal were defeated by the Nature Boy and Andrade El Idolo.
I thought he kind of stole the show on (Ric) Flair’s Last Match too. When I was watching, like a man, everyone was fine, but I can’t take my eyes off Jeff. I do not know what it is.
Elsewhere in the signing, Shelley talked regarding the Time Splitters (Lui and KUSHIDA) and how they were going to have an expanded run in WWE until the COVID-19 outbreak ruined it.
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