During the latest episode of his “My World” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett discussed various topics, including LA Knight’s time in Impact Wrestling in 2017 and his attempts to bring back Mike Tenay for Slammiversary that year.
Reflecting on LA Knight’s potential at the time, Jeff Jarrett emphasized,
“Look, it’d be just so silly for me to say, ‘Oh, absolutely.’ But when a guy can be — and I tell this when I do my wrestling seminars, you’ve gotta be above average nowadays with the basics as far as in-ring ability. You don’t have to be great, and you don’t have to be spectacular. You’ve gotta have that as far as in-ring work, but you better be able to talk. And I mean, you have to have promo skills, and if you’re just average, it ain’t gonna work. And I think that was important 30 years ago, 20 years ago. It will be just as important 20 years from now, 30 years from now. He’s always been able to rap, talk. And so really, what he has always needed is the — to me, it’s the right opportunity at the right time. Because a lot of guys, we gave him an opportunity. But when you kinda look at what we were trying to do, hammer down, and you’ve got so many different things going on. And look, we made him champ post-Slammiversary. I think [was] the timing of it. But yes, so I can’t say I would’ve predicted it, but he’s a guy that needed the opportunity and the right time. I just think right now the timing is clicking for him because when you kinda look at the landscape, they’ve given him the microphone. That’s what he needed. He doesn’t need wrestling time in the ring, he needed mic time.”
Delving into the effort to bring back Mike Tenay for Slammiversary, Jeff Jarrett shared,
“So, Mike — and I don’t want people to read too much into this. Mike’s a good bud and I’ll leave it at this. He just wasn’t ready, didn’t feel it. And I totally respected it, and it was a conversation… But Don West was back on board and in the swing of things. And Mike was, ‘Eh, I’m not feeling it.’”
