Jim Cornette on Steve Austin Refusing To Work With Jeff Jarrett
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- From Episode 143 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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steve austin needs to get more credit for saying no to dumb shit.
@Heenan Harley honestly i think at that point steve knew he was on borrowed time
Wwe is dead!!!!!
@@macprolific866 jeff jarrett went from a skinny point guard to roided up ic champ
i laughed my guts out when Jarrett broke his guitar over 70 year old The Fabulous Moolah's head
Lol that really was hilarious
@E G slapnut
@E G 😉
I wish more people got a chance to do that to Moolah, knowing what we know about her now. Alas.
Jarrett destroying frail women was the one good thing about his wwf run. No, that’s not misogyny, it’s just because it was hilarious. Lawler also helped perpetuate that storyline.
When Stone Cold imitated Jarrett's strut 🤣
I remember that lol
That had to feel good, knowing the history between those two.
@Hart Smith it's called swindling. Robbing him from what he was earned at the time
When did he do that lol
@Hart Smith jeff was always a jack ass. Always thought he was better than he really was. Over rated
"He was swayed in to hugging Vince McMahon... Nobody ever recovered"
😂
Austin says it was his idea
Steve wanted to turn heel.. He didn't need to do that cause he was still over.. No matter what Austin did he was still loved..
It's true though
I never understood why you would after countless f@ck you's to Vince then hug your boss on paper view and sing koumbayia!! LOL😂🤩🤩
@@kenrickeason He was burnt out on his run, so he wanted something different. Hogan tried to do much the same, but Vince squashed it. Then it happened in WCW two years later and we got the NWO. That said, Austin's run in 2002-2003 was never quite as big as before because of that heel move; Rock became the top face who was also getting routinely booed because the internet had become a thing and people found out he was going part-time to become a film star.
The way jim said, "I do indeed recollect this. " sounds so pure lol
you can hear the smile 😂
Stephen Joens :(
He couldnt wait to dive into that one lol
I liked that also
That southern drawl came through, which made it funnier.
When Jarrett came back to the wwe in 97 he talked about how much he hated the country singer gimmick then 5 months later he had the cowboy hat and glasses back on lol He made me change the channel countless times.
And was singlehandedly the reason I stopped watching wcw
@@tayflyfree497 Jarret alone wasn't why I stopped watching wcw but he played a big part in it.
Why Russo had such affection for him I'll never know. He's a solid wrestler, but midcard is his ceiling in the big leagues. Even when WCW was going down the names they had and jarrett is world champion wtf? I know they also had booker t up there but he had long paid his dues off and then some.
He also dissed Debra bc she managed him in WCW. FFwd a few months and she follows him to the WWF lol.
@@StuUngar She came to the wwe 1 year after he returned but it is pretty ironic he said that too lol
"Don't get beat by women unless they pay you $200,000"
I wonder if Randy Orton got more for that abomination last weekend.
@@King4sshole89 hopefully he did
Jeff Jarrett was and still is a very smart man.
Jeff Jarrets best program was with Beetle juice . “Hey slap nuts” 😂
"What did you call me?!?"
He whacked him into a different galaxy with that guitar shot LOL
Dont piss me off. Slap nutts
Beet sold that shit though, all twitching and shit on the ground. When you realize the guy has like an 8 second memory, it’s impressive to get work out of him.
Jarrett murdered him in cold blood!
The Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles triple threat match for the X Division title was one of the best matches in all of TNA in my opinion. I also heard in various stories it was 300k that Double J wanted/demanded for royalties owed to him.
Jason Blayne That’s What Brian Zane said on his channel.
$300k sounds pretty reasonable really.
Jarrett himself denys it all, he says he just asked Vince for the money he was owed and Vince wrote him a check and that was that.
I remember reading in Bob Hollys book though that when Jarrett showed up, he went into Vince's office and there was a whole lot of yelling and screaming and that Shane McMahon wanted to punch Jarrett in the face, but Jarrett stood his ground and said he wasn't going out until Vince wired him the money he was owed. Once Vince did, Holly says Jarrett had his bag by the door, Jarrett went out and dropped the IC title to Chyna, Jarrett came walking thru the curtain, didn't say anything to anyone and just beeline to the door, grabbed his bag and left, still covered in the flour and sugar and shit from his match lol
@@billblaski9523 go watch the clip from his podcast with Conrad Thompson, there's a whole mess of reasons why that makes no sense and Bob Holly is talking out his ass as he has a tendency to do.
I grew up and watched WWF from like 87 to around 99/2000. And through the years there were very few wrestlers, heel or baby face, that I despised. I truly despised Jeff Jarrett. He was the most annoying, arrogant ass clown ever. I respect how much he really made me hate him lol.
And then your Dad came into the room with his trousers around his ankles and gave you the finisher!
@@pt8208 There are better ways to pubelickly announce your pederasty.
@@pt8208😮
Jim is like a human SSD he remembers everything.
its remarkable. Must be all that Sprite
"Sable with the numatic t i ts powerbombs Mark Mero ... Steve Austin immediately pick up the phone and calls Vince and asks. Who am i gonna wrestle now ?" - Jim Cornette
I read the Steve Austin's part in his voice
@@mickyjankis9542 WHAT?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 one of my favorite Corny stories...
Marc Mero vs Stone Cold wouldve been cool Johnny B Badd was awesome in WCW
Jarrett wasn't on Austin's level in '97 and certainly wasn't going forward from there.
Gotta love how honest Cornette has always been !
I believe in Memphis, Jarrett (the promoters son/main event guy/most highly paid guy on the roster) said to Austin while looking at Austin's pay "It ain't going to get bigger by looking at it." Austin held a grudge.
That was one of the reasons Steve refused to work with Jeff because in Memphis Wrestling if your last name wasn’t Lawler or Jarrett, you didn’t get pay. Austin even said himself he had to live on ramen while Jeff lived elegantly as the highest paid wrestler
@@deadmanwalking8740 or Bill Dundee. That's why Flair hated coming to Memphis as NWA Champion. He'd probably get paid decent but everyone else except for Lawler, Jarrett or Dundee would get paid well, everyone else in the locker room would be miserable.
@@deadmanwalking8740 As Jim said, Jeff had great matches and deserved it, too.
@@deadmanwalking8740 I think it was actually boiled potatoes
@ I can tell you that he was my favorite at the time as a kid.
The truth is that Austin was super pissed at Jarrett for his "shoot" promo where he called Austin 3:16 blasphemous. I've heard Austin say this himself. He said once Jarrett walked backstage after that promo, he screamed at him and cussed him out.
Is this a fact you mean the shoot Jarrett did on raw in 98
it is blasphemous...
nah, austetine shooted ALOT on others talents at the time, but whoa!, prima donna austetine didnt liked when came the receip...
the dude's a pos .
@@monsieurdubitatif8567 Who cares what someone stupid enough to write 'austetine' thinks?
@@suchiuomizu well, you seems to care...😏
@@michaelbull4344 Jarrett confirmed this on his podcast, Steve was furious and thought Jeff was trying to screw his run again just like he'd done in USWA.
Mr “never drew a dime “robbed Vince for 200k in one night. Not bad
Was Cornette originally the one who came up with that ''never drew a dime'' line for Jarrett?
@@fillgollinsdergroarticheme8442 no, it was mike Graham
He didn't rob Vince. It was money Jarrett was owed.
at the expense of his career and getting beat by a girl... yeah, not worth it, not even close
Business.
Jeff Jerrett can wrestle like hell, he just didn't have that it factor like Austin has..
Jarrett more recently claimed that the money he demanded before dropping the title to chyna was money that was owed to him for merch and previous PPV money, so he wanted to make sure he was paid before he left.
Yuo, Jeff Jarett T-shirts were HUGE sellers, lol
Well of course because that makes him the babyface.
Since Jeff was not sure that the WWF had anything to offer him, the reason being his contract had expired and they had missed that fact running into the PPV so he thought that they would screw him over and make him wait for the money and on their terms. That would mean he would have to dispute with the WWF over what he was actually owed without access to the figures for merchandise sales or PPV percentages, so he used the situation on his non contract to leverage the WWF into paying that up front.
You could say that the $200,000 or so that is bandied about as the figure that was supposedly paid was simply a result of the fact that the WWF had failed to spot that the guy who was going to be doing the IC belt match was not under contract.
So all credit to Jeff for using the situation to make sure he had a clean break and also Vince knew that he was sticking it to Jeff in asking him to drop the belt to Chyna and we can all guess who's idea that was.
A few years back I read a story about Jerry Jarrett being backstage at a WWE show Ave getting insulted that Kane gave him the cold shoulder the entire time. I was perplexed because if there is one guy you never hear anything negative about, it’s Kane. But then I remembered that story about Stone Cold and Jeff with the paycheck-and they Kane got his start in the Jarret’s promotion. And then it all made sense.
slapnuts reeks of spoiled brat
The artwork of JC wearing JJ's attire (with the hat initialled JC) is gold!
Steve Austin absolutely politic'd BUT Steve's reasoning and rationale is usually rooted in wrestling logic or whats best for business overall. If Jarrett was a big draw,Austin wouldn't have had a problem but the memphis territory already had heat with him for starving him out back in the day so he wasnt gonna put a fat payday in Jarrett's pocket and gain nothing from it. Just like Marc Mero,if his 100 pound wife power bombed him...why is Steve Austin even gonna take 30 secons whooping his ass. Or fighting Brock with no build up or BIG payoff. After becoming Stone Cold,Austin just wasnt with working with anybody for the fuck of it. He'd paid his dues at that point and was drawing the money to back it up...I Cant blame him.
Don’t matter if he politicked he was right
He was right in all 3 instances (even never wanting to work with Owen again, but that was more personal), but he wasnt the booker. Plain and simple. I love Steve, and he's even a good ol Texas boy, but he's not the booker. Thankfully he didnt try to hold onto it forever like Hogan. Steve knew when to let go, but considering that he like to call the shots, I wonder what other decisions he would have made if he decided to stay active. You know he wouldn't accept anything less than main event fueds..
I love Steve Austin but he's not the Booker! We shit on Shawn and Hulk for doing the same things why not Steve?
@@kenrickeason Steve had solid reasons and made them known from the jump. Shawn and hulk would agree to do shit then change the script sometimes the night of a show. And til this day I dont understand why companies gave them that type of leeway
@@kenrickeason Except Steve was willing to lose against top stars in his prime. Shawn and Hulk were politicking out of losing to people on their level, or above them. Even Steve's refusal to job to Brock was strictly because losing on a random raw was a dogshit way to do it. Every wrestling fan knows that should be something built up to. Can't just hand over those Austin reins on a damned Raw with no build.
@Ya Father Because Vince had no balls then. He didn't get some until WWEs big four of Austin, The Rock, Undertaker, and Foley (I know people would put HHH here, but I think Foley was more integral in the rise of the attitude era with his feuds with all of those three). The bad thing about it is Vince now has such giant balls they have completely shut down his brain's critical thinking ability. I would say the Brock/Austin moment really showed Vince had lost the ability to see the big picture when chasing weekly ratings.
Austin did the right thing because he knew feuding with Jeff Jarrett would lower his drawing power and momentum.Austin wanted credible opponents to increase his momentum and drawing power.WWE suffers with this same problem.They have great talents but have them feud with their office favorites.The recent example is Seth Rollins.He had momentum after beating Lesnar but a 3 month feud with Mr ENTERTAINMENT Corbin hurt him a lot and his momentum dropped because he was feuding with a guy that wasn't in his level,look at Becky,she had no credible opponents and she was feuding with women that had no credibility and hurt her drawing power and momentum.Roman was finally slowly slowly getting over with the fans.But a long lackluster boring feud with Corbin stopped that.A good example is the Daniel Bryan WrestleMania 30,after winning the title he was feuding with Kane who wasn't in his level.I only remember how Bryan won the title but forgot about his title reign
Exactly, wwe has a bad track record of killing guys by overexposure and bad fueds.
That doesn't work for me brother...
@@unlimitedayoproduction2452 Hogan didn't want to put guys over when he needed to put guys over.Steve Austin refused to lose because he has solid reasons unlike Hogan.Steve agreed to put Brock over WITH PROPER BUILD UP.Steve refused to out over Lesnar because it had no build up.WWE stars are losing their drawing power and momentum because they don't how to protect their character.Steve knew how to protect his career that's why he was able to draw as much money as he could.Steve was kind because he didn't always say that doesn't work for me in the last minute
@@unlimitedayoproduction2452 And If I remember correctly Hogan didn't want to put Brett over because Brett was too small. Not for any other reason
@@ralphlowrey couldn't agree more with you dude.Becky's moves look like they are about to be botched,my father is a casual viewer and immediately changed the channel seeing her Man BS gimmick
Austin has also said that one of the reasons he didn't work with him was because he was unhappy about the fact that when Jarrett came in and cut his first promo he talked about how Austin 3:16 was blasphemy and said some other derogatory things about Austin without running it by Steve.
Which was also reportedly Russo's idea...lol.
Everything was Russo’s idea. He invented wrestling.
Vince Russo was blasphemy.
He definitely goes out of his way to bury Austin. He called him the "one move wonder" and said that he had to resort to shaving his head bald and swearing in order to get over. I don't think Austin was very pleased about that either, given that the reason he started shaving his head was because he was going bald - you know, the same reason most guys in their 30s and 40s start shaving it totally bald.
bigmikeystyle it added too the look of stone cold, the skull looked better as a symbol for a bald guy.
"Jeff Jarrett broke a thousand guitars and never drew a dime."
I see this quote a lot but never found out who originally said it. Who said it?
Copy and paste. I've heard that line a thousand times and it's never drawn a laugh.
Jon Bourgoin ua-cam.com/video/JY3CNeC3Ce0/v-deo.html
Jon Bourgoin Mike graham
@@marioanchondo9486 the irony coming from ANOTHER promoter's son who also never drew a dime.
Chyna needed that win though. I was watching that feud in 1999; Chyna was over as hell and it was a story of feminism. Chyna was supposed to be Jarrett's revenge for mistreating women the months prior.
Chyna was not the average woman. She was the 9th wonder of the world. Big and strong enough to compete with men. That was such a good storyline.
And how did that turn out? No one wanted to work with Chyna, hell go read Jericho's second book for the horror stories he had to deal with as Chyna was just a good looking muscle chick who COULD NOT PERFORM
Fred Casden's World Get over it
@@fredcasdensworld idc who wanted to work with chyna. She entertained us and that's all that matters. The story was great, her career was great, she was a hall of famer, and she was pretty much the only woman back then that was taken seriously.
Posts like this make my head hurt.
She’s not THAT big. And, here’s the thing: she’s a girl. If she fought a man? What could she do? He just has to do what he does. It’s not feminism. It’s thousands of years of superior genetics. Chyna couldn’t do shit against a man in a fight.
@ yeah true, but she did beat the shit out of X-Pac in real life.. though I don't think he attempted to hit her back.. he was also way gone on drugs at that point.
I always admired Jarrett for having the balls to stand up to Vince McMahon unlike most guys who were in the WWF/WWE
Lol
Stand up? You mean hold him up for money like a complete douchebag? Sounds like a very admirable person 🙄
I hope you aren’t a Flair fan...
@@mjstory1976 he was owed that money cause he was working for wwf after his contract was up already. He never demanded anything just asked Vince for that money and got it that's a myth that he held him up for money.
I’m with you. You’d think Vince would’ve respected the game lol
Well Charlotte is running her mouth off about becoming wwe champion, so jeff jarrett alreeady set the price bar on that, just add for inflation
Charlotte coulda been a contenda if she'd add enough muscle mass and grow a mustache. She's already bigger than half the male roster.
Well put. She's a mega pain in the rear. Basically she's doing Andy Kaufman's routine only role reversal, actual wrestler here.
I guess having Tessa Blanchard as Impact's World champion helps set that precedent.
That's funny because Charlotte is inflated she'd probably fly off into space if anyone pricked her with a sharp object.
@@sgtraytango where do you think they got the idea.
Corny quitting WCW is my favorite leaving a job story IMO
@@shuckeyduckeythefunkyhomos6166 how
Joey styles quitting wwe: hold my beer
Raven getting up in the middle of WCW-wide meeting after everyone was told "if you're not happy, there's the door" and leaving without saying a word to return to ECW is my personal favorite quitting story. So savage.
I always found Jarrett to be extremely over rated.
I found him underrated
I found to be neutral on Double J
I find Jarrett to be a great worker, he made more Wrestlers rise to the top than Austin ever did. When he made TNA, he made more talents rise up then WWE
CavemanJesus4Life yeah that’s what I said
@@CavemanJesus4Life and all their 100k houses. All their 1.5 buyrates
Jeff Jarrett is a class act he might of asked to be paid for dropping the belt to Chyna but he did the right thing by taking the money and doing the job the promoter asked.
I think anyone would have for that kind of money.
It was money Jarrett was owed for like 2 or 3 weeks. Not a dime more from every story I've ever heard.
It was 250,000 I don't think he was making that every 3 weeks but Chyna was hugely over at the time and Jeff was a good heel so I think Jeff charged a fair price for the Job.
didn't he have a ponzy scheme on the go in TNA with the gold bars?
That picture 🤣 J-IM CO-RN-E Double T E 🤠
G-OO-NE GOOONE - Vince McMahon
Did he just casually refer to Vince Russo as “Shit Stain?” 😂😂 00:36
I remember this from chynas book, i think russo was the one who realized jarrets contract had expired and he didnt have to wrestle. One of the only time mcmahon got owned
Some of the jeff Jarrett and kurt angle matches in TNA were amazing
DethPlayaGamer I was blown away how good their match was at Genesis 2009.
Thanks for being an honest fan..he did have some great matches. I was never the biggest JJ fan but he was a good worker.
@@KentaObscuro wasnt that the one where angle did the moonsault off the cage? or that may of been against mr anderson
@@brian9670 yeah he had good matches I've been watching tna since 2006 I'll always remember his match against Christian cage and planet jarrett with AMW team Canada gail Kim Scott Steiner abyss and a few more
Jeff can wrestle nobody going against that but we are talking about drawing power, Steve Austin was that , Jeff Jarrett wasn't that..
To be fair, Jeff Jarrett still had a pretty decent run. Debra brought him an insane amount of popularity and they were the WWE "It" couple, she won PWI's manager of the year. The women's title. He had a solid IC title ( a few ) runs and a tag team belt run with Owen while managed by Debra. I say the 200K was well spent because Jim will never admit it but he could never say Chyna wasn't over more than most of the men, especially the ones she competed against. Her IC title run was believable, and set the stage for what they now say will see Charlotte Flair start to compete for men's belts. Chyna did it literally 22+ years ago.
The fans were even behind her keeping up with Jericho, HHH, Taker and Eddie and as a kid it never felt “unrealistic” to see her hold her own against them.
Good or not, Chyna was over af and anyone who can’t admit that isn’t objective to admit it
@@davonvanterpool4207 Exactly. She was big and powerful enough that it didn't seem too unbelievable, and tbh when I was that young I didn't really pay as much attention to whether someone was a "good worker" or not, I just enjoyed the characters etc. Looking back, she was pretty damn bad though!
Mark Cassidy Chyna took some good bumps. Her physique was incredible. She was a superstar. On tv shows like third rock. Madtv obviously the rock was the crossover to Hollywood but Chyna was doing well.
The problem with Chyna was they didn’t know what to do with her when triple h joined Stephanie. Billy Gunn got hurt. She put Jericho over then just became his bodyguard, she had the thing with Eddie which didn’t last. Then they had her wrestling in the women’s division again which was pointless.
@Anthony Cruz well said I agree
Charlotte may be 10x the worker Chyna was, but Chyna was 10x more believable than Charlotte is. And even SHE shouldn't have beat almost any of the men. Although if Charlotte beats Drake Maverick and guys his size then thatd be believable. But not even most of the other cruiserweights.
Well done Jeff Jarrett
I heard Russo on interview say that he liked working with Jeff because he would memorize and deliver his written promos very easily. I guess that's what a writer likes!
@OfficialJimCornette. It wasn't baked potatoes, that Austinatein Memphis. He would buy bags of potatoes, peel them and eat them raw.
You mean *Raaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww*
He broke a million guitars and never drew a dime.
draw way more than honky tonk...
200k for dropping an IC belt, with one foot out the door...wow. People say he never drew a dime, but he drew some dimes for himself!
Based Jarrett
@DevilKaz wtf? where you heard that?
Austin looks like Horace Hogan in the thumbnail...
Looks like when will Sasso dressed up as austin
@Heenan Harley That is true. Goldberg talked about that on the Stone Cold podcast.
To be fair, Chyna wasn't presented as a typical diva of the time. She was also in the Royal Rumble with the boys. Not like they asked him to lose to Sunny or Sable.
@Heenan Harley It really be a kick in the balls
Hell nah, a girl is a girl and its disgraceful to put a men's belt on a woman especially when it's presented as a contest of strength to have a woman win devalued the whole thing. I'm all for equality and a strong women's division but don't make a mockery of the belts.
Plus she looked legitimate with the guys. When she grappled and whipped the ropes, she didn't look feminine like a majority of girls. Of course she wasn't the most technical wrestler but sometimes Jim is so ignorant when he thinks the guys just did all the work for her. And from what I heard in an interview, Chyna was cool with him asking for the money that he did since she never had a problem working with him and that she even understood him.
@@prince.fatalis the money jeff got was none of Chyna's business and even if she was the greatest wrestler in history she shouldn't be fighting men it's just stupid.
@@sammmm87 she was physically bigger than some of the guys though, including X-Pac. Like someone else said, she wasn't really in with the rest of the "divas" back then, basically in her own category.
Steve Austin looks like he has a dip in
That stuff is gross
No wrestler has made me change the channel more often than slap nuts.
Jim must've forgot joe, aj, and kurt were on tna for saying Jarrett had the best matches In TNA
Jim doesnt understand how to read between the lines.....
The best match TNA had was that triple threat match with Joe, AJ and Chris. Can't believe that match is 15 years old.
@@TheForeverRanger pluto TV, TNA has their own channel and its 75%ish old stuff, proving just how good R-Truth was then, he is still great just now it's an extremely different great
free app too
No. Hes saying no one ever said Jeff wasnt a good worker. Then he said Jeff had the best matches in TNA.
@@TheForeverRanger every TNA triple threat match those 3 had was TNA's greatest ever. No match in TNA history could compete with any in that rivalry!
When I was 15 years old I wanted to fight coronet. I'm 52 now and still do!
it's not like Chyna knocked out JJ and put an apron on him and then stripped him and wore his pants...oh wait
I bet Chyna pegged Triple H more than once.
Saurabh Sharma no doubt
That makes me like Austin even more. Jarrett had no business being in the main event then. Hell, he didn't when WCW put him in the main event either.
Apparently Jeff Jarrett said to Austin once "Keep looking at that check, boy. It won't make it bigger." backstage at a USWA show. Austin never forgot it. I don't blame Austin for that. The Jarretts never treated Austin with any respect but now he's expected to help get Jeff over after how he was treated?
That combined with Jeff's worked shoot promo was why Austin didn't want to work with him.
That was Jerry Jarrett, Jeff's father.
And then Jeff Jarrett punished us in TNA for like 15 years booking himself the champion 10x over.
he knew what he was doing
Lol
@DevilKaz Yup. So many guys were squandered in TNA during Jarrett's world title reign of terror shit show.
One of the funniest moments was Austin stunning Double J and then doing to strut.
And now he's in the WWE Hall of Fame. Gotta love wrestling.
That's also after being fired by Vince the night Vince bought wcw and starting a pretty decent rival company for a lil over a decade
The delivery of "and that's what they gave him" is priceless
Hmm... "he should've got the belt off him before his contract expired." This sounds familiar. Feels like Vince should have already learned this lesson. :D
Jeff Jarrett buried Steve Austin, said he will always be “The Ringmaster”
Well he was right he is the master of the ring!!! But the thing is he will always be "Jeff Jarrett" a total slap nutts...
Yip. Austin never recovered from that verbal smackdown.
"Every best match in TNA had Jeff Jarrett in it." No, Corny, no. AJ Styles, anybody? I will say Jarrett was a fine worker and definitely has one of the all time great working punches, though, with guys like Lawler and Scott Hall.
"Choke on that slapnuts"
what a finesse lol..
I agree. Corny's doing a really good job of not squashing Jarrett here.
How did Jim forget that they brought Jarrett back by putting Jeff with him, and that whole NWA faction. That came before Debra.
If they paid Jeff 200k, then he should have asked to put over Chyna clean instead of the Dusty finish
Jarrett left the WWF and the last millenium as record IC champ.
Jeff has opened up about this on his podcast. If I recall it was like $300k or something and he got it in cash from the gate. That was to settle all his payments from other shows and everything, including the match that night. He did that so they couldn't cancel his paycheck if they cut him a check for it. He knew they had the money there and the gate would be light but they would just settle later with the company and it wouldn't be a big deal. He even mention he got a tax return from the arena for his taxes next year because of it.
You know austin enjoyed being top dog after he got kicked around so much all those years in a interview he said he has the ball and hes not letting it go oh hell yeah thats why this guy was awesome he would stay up to a hour after every show and have fun with the fans i was at raw live one time he did that he didnt want to leave he would drink beer after beer and stunners everywhere it was a a great time the guy treated his fans great and thats why he was so over and thats why to this day he gets the biggest pops i never heard of anyone else doing that he finaly could do what he wanted you know how great he must of felt hearing those pops after getting booed all those years? It must have been an amazing time for him and just think he was hurt badly and still was on top at only half speed and stiill took the top spot amazing can you imagine a austin at full throttle during the attitude era? He probably would have flew planes inside the buildings lol😆😆😆😆
@Stephen right? I like Stone Cold too but DAMN what next? "He even let the ring crew drink beer while he himself took the ring down you should've seen it, it was the biggest pop omg!!!! He gave a stunner to the turnbuckle for shit's and giggles, we all sat and laughed and sang songs until they shit the lights off." Calling something cringy is cliche, but in this case I'll gladly say cringe.
Jarrett might be the best in ring performer to never even sniff being over
Wow. Now I like double J even more. "Utah! Gimme two! ✌️"
"I shouldve told you to get me 3 of these things!"
Two simple reasons:
1.Jeff's Dad Jerry Jarrett paid Austin so less he lived on baked potatoes
2.Jeff called the Austin 3:16 promo "blasphemous".
Amazing.. Glad he got the money, making you losing to a woman back then, when you promise a run with Austin, is such a screw job
back in 1991 I saw Steve Austin wrestling Gentleman Chris Adams in tiny Bonham Texas with USWA. Chris Von Erich was there too. Within the year Austin was in WCW and Chris was dead. I do believe Jeff Jarrett was on that bill too.
Jim "squat down so I can see it in your mouth" Cornette 😂
Jeff should have threatened Steve by Reminding Him That Tojo said Sell Sell or lose 👂...lol
I'm just here for the over/under on the use of the name "shitstain"
I gotta go back and watch some of Jarretts matches because I don't remember him ever having a good one.
Cornette is totally forgetting need the promo Jeff cut on RAW calling Austin 3:16 blasphemy.... Which Steve totally did not appreciate
These videos always randomly in my recommended section and they so good😂and so many of them
Mines too lately lol
_"You should've taken the title off Jeff before his contract was up!"_
Yeah, I'm sure his butt-buddy Russo had nothing to do with that, as he fled to WCW himself right after.
Russo wasn't director of talent relations, that was Jim Ross and Jim Ross only. JR has even admitted to dropping the ball there.
By the time Jeff Jarrett and chyna had that match at no mercy in October 99' Russo was already gone but he may have had a hand in the writing. Russo jumped to WCW and Jarrett was right behind him
Russo was in WCW when Double J was IC Champ.
The drawing of Cornette in the JJ get up is hilarious
He wasn't talked into hugging Vince on PPV, he insisted on the turn and left money on the table, then left money on the table walking out on a match with Lesnar....he didn't leave any money on the table refusing to work with Jarrett
What money was there to be made by losing to Lesnar in a King of the Ring qualifying match on Raw? He shouldn't have walked out on the company, but the idea of Austin facing the next top star on free tv in 2002? What a joke. You make that your main event of a ppv.
You obviously don't understand how money is drawn.
Giving shit away free on TV is not how money is drawn
@@GinEric84 NAILED IT!!
I was gonna lose it had anyone insinuated that Jeff wasnt a worker!😄
Jeff Jerrett is a machine when it comes to being a worker.
Never got all the cosplay marks hatred of Jeff. He was a good worker and pretty good on the mic
Just imagine Jeff Jarrett's reaction to Tessa Blanchard being the tna champion...
In a shocking twist.....Cornette blames Russo.
I love how he says “yeah he was a lip syncing clown in 94-95...” wasn’t that when you were on the booking committee? 😂 it was certainly pre-Russo.
Imagine if it was Michaels who refused to work with Jeff Jarrett...You would have a coronary Jim!
Everyone says Jarrett never drew a dime, but he was actually my favorite wrestler back then. It was mostly a bunch of circumstances: I played the guitar, and I loved watching him smash his over people's heads. I thought Debra was the hottest woman on TV. And mostly, I thought the heels were more interesting, and Jarrett & Owen (my second favorite) were like the only heels at the time that were doing their own thing. Pretty much every other heel worth anything was tied to the Corporation or the Corporate Ministry, or you had guys like Kane or D'Lo Brown that went back and forth between heel and face so often that they weren't truly heels. Jarrett was always a bad guy, and I think he did a pretty good job of it.
The way Jarrett was packaged displays a similarity of mantra between the wrestling business and retail chain stores: “As long as solved today’s problems, that’s all that matters”.
I love and respect Cornette but saying Jarrett is involved in all of TNA's top matches is such a stretch. The Joe/styles/daniels match, Joe/Angle in the cage, countless great tag matches.... does anyone remember any tna Jeff matches besides against Raven, with the wrong finish?
Jeff Jarrett did it right! Big fan now. Great story.
Jim, i know you are a fan of Jeff Jarrett, but i have a question: can you really see Jarrett versus Stone cold? I watched WWE at the time when it was better than today, and i never saw Jarrett more than a person who did not know what he wants. Did he had a talent? Yes! But not a stone cold level when the undertaker, the Rock, Triple H and Kurt Angle's time arrived.
Zufer 1 it's because jeffs grandmother started corny in the business he's got blinded loyalty towards him
Jarrett vs Michaels was a 4 four star. Jeff could go, but look at the shit they gave him as a gimmick. Was he the main eventer every time? No, but they could have easily put him in the mix every once in a while.
@Horrible Man if you don't know why fans found the Rock entertaining you're an absolute brainless moron who shouldn't be criticizing anything.. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I couldn't see Jeff Jarrett vs Stone Cold cause Stone Cold was a high product same as The Rock but Jeff Jarrett vs Triple H yes I could see it because he wrestle mid cards before and he gave them a chance to win and also shit on them with DQ and taking back championships
I mean, he called him a midcard guy and said Austin was smart for not taking him
According to JJ on his podcast, JJ told JR and the WWE that his contract was about to expire. They all thought it expired later than it did. It expired the Friday/Saturday before the Sunday PPV. JR kept delaying getting a deal worked out and JJ even told JR that he would be working without a contract. JJ respected Chyna and said he would drop it to her, but he wanted assurances from WWE that he would get all the money owed to him up front instead of waiting till WWE came around to doing it.
JJ shows up at the PPV early with his street clothes on and the IC title in a duffle bag in his trunk. He walked into the arena without the duffel bag and talked to JR. JR asked what it would take for JJ to work the PPV. JJ told him he wanted all the money that was owed to him. Roughly a little over $150k. JR went back to Vince and it was okayed for the amount. JR comes back to JJ and JJ doubles the amount. He knew he would never be coming back to WWE so he figured he would ask for double. JR goes back to Vince again. They agree. Then JJ says they agreed on the deal. JJ goes gets the IC title from the trunk of his car and does the match exactly as he had agreed. JJ told Joanie (Chyna) that his sticking them up for his money has nothing to do with her.
Now I am paraphrasing some of this, but JJ explains what everyone got wrong about it and he clarifies some things that people over look. As an independent contractor without a contract, he would be working for free to drop the title. When it comes to royalties from said PPV, JJ would not be listed as a contracted talent. He wasnt gonna rely on Vinces word that he would get paid. So he made them pay for what he was owed and for the inconvenience of having to work without a contract. JR fucked up by not getting a new deal and not realizing the contract lapsed before the PPV. Im not a JJ fan by any means, but he was smart to get his money and leave.
Plus the money that was paid to him was from the box office, not Vinces or WWE’s pockets. It was deducted from the amount the arena paid them at the end of the night for ticket sales. $300k was not going to bankrupt WWE or Vince. It was a way to pay JJ and get the money that night. Wiring $300k is not easy on a Sunday night in 1999.
Jeff Jarrett couldn’t draw money if you gave him a green crayon!
Are you saying he Never Drew A Dime
Dammmmnnn wwf paid! 100000.. gimmie 2.... For one match. To get the belt back... Jeff "Hustlin the McMahon" Jarrett
Austin was always such a diva LOL!!!
Well he's the Goat so yeah he's earned the right
I think he earned it, though
He always had a chip on his shoulder, when you come out of an environment like WCW, where all your hard work can be tossed out with the simple word of another person, it's not surprising he got a chip on his shoulder and learned to protect himself when he got into the position.
At least he wasn't out to ruin people's careers around him like Shawn or Hogan, he gave back when he could and understood when the right and wrong time was for his character to do something.
Also had bad blood from his days working for the Jarretts. The story about him hawking at his paycheck and either Jerry or Jeff saying “Staring at it won’t put anymore zeroes on it.”
That was my issue with Jeff Jarrett in the WCW Russo era as well. This guy pranced around like a flamboyant cowboy / comedy country singer for as long as I’ve known him. How can I all of a sudden treat him as a tough guy because booking says so? His most convincing moment of offense in WCW was smashing a gimmicked guitar over Beetlejuice from Howard Stern for calling him “Slap Nuts”.
Never understood all the hype about Jarrett. He was a good worker, but nothing about him stood out. He was below average size wise, but was no where near the wrestler as other undersized guys like HBK, Bret Hart, Benoit, Angle.
I agree he is beneath the guys you mentioned and throw Jericho in there too, but I still would say his promos (1998 and onward) were better than all those guys except Angle and Jericho and once he became that short haired "Don't piss me off/Slapnuts" persona he was a pretty strong heel character which made up for all the weak years from 95-97
@Mikey Gray I agree he had better in ring skills than Austin, but can't compare the charisma between the 2. Fan reaction to Austin in the late 90's was the loudest ever. Fan reaction to Jarrett has always been pretty lukewarm.
apark02 almostmakes you wonder if JJ is really a missing Armstrong.
I remember the Owen Hart promo he is talking about specifically, and Owen cut the promo of his life that night. I was not a 'smart' fan, and I genuinely thought Owen Hart was about to kill the world.
When was this?
@@Bryan8329 I had to look it up. Owen had been feuding with DX after Bret left through all of '98. He loses a match to HHH at Judgement Day in April and joins the Nation of Domination the next night on Raw (insert necessary 'Russo turns make no f'ing sense' comment here). He probably cut that promo the week after on Raw. I can't find it on youtube, but I don't know why because it was the only good thing that came from that storyline. It was where he coined the phrase 'Enough is enough and it's time for a change,' which they turned into his entrance theme until the Blue Blazer thing started back up. Regardless, I'll never forget how that promo gave me goosebumps.
Actually. Forgive me. I almost forgot that this happened during that storyline too. ua-cam.com/video/IiRmTySpTAA/v-deo.html&pbjreload=101
Lmao I like how refers to Vince Russo as Shit Stain.😂
Probably didn’t wanna look like a midcarder for life
Cornette as JJ is the greatest thing I never knew I needed...
Russo always had a hard on for Jarret for some reason. Look how Jarret rose to the top in WCW when Russo was booking.