During a recent edition of his “My World” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett expressed his belief that TNA couldn’t have taken any action to retain Christian Cage before he went back to WWE in 2009.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Christian Cage leaving for WWE: “I think he had already kind of made up his mind. And I knew, and told Dallas and Panda [Energy] and probably told Dixie [Carter]. I don’t really think this is anything other than, he wants to go back to WWE to prove himself. I think we probably served the role that he wanted us to. He became champion, it was growth in his career. We did him a solid. He did us a solid.”
On not being able to outbid WWE: “But at the end the day, we can’t outbid WWE really under any circumstance. And so, ‘Do we really want to put ourselves in a position that we’re overpaying a guy that we know it doesn’t fit our business model?’ So those kind of meetings that were really hard, were always hard for kind of — I’ll say for Dixie to absorb that, ‘Look Dixie, at the end of the day, we have a budget and we have to keep the entire team rolling in the same direction.’ You can get out ahead of your skis, and then all of a sudden you get some pay out of wax. Not saying Christian’s not worth it, but in our system we can only do so much. And so I don’t think there was money that needed to be discussed.”
