On a recent episode of his My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast, Jeff Jarrett responded to claims that he “worked” Vince Russo during their friendship in 2002. Jarrett also discussed his first impressions of Samoa Joe.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
Responding to Russo’s claims that Jarrett ‘worked’ him: “Do we even want to give this guy a rub? I’ll just say this, no it didn’t surprise me at all. In 2022, I’ve been very blessed. It doesn’t surprise me. That’s in Russo’s DNA. Of course he’s gonna jump on the bandwagon. And I say that — I’m trying to say that with diplomacy. He says that I worked him, so says the man behind the pay wall. ‘So hey folks, I’m going to talk about a guy who’s supposedly ‘worked me’ but I’m going to tell you behind my paywall.’ I just chuckled to no end about that — I’ll say this. Vince, I’ll say it to you. It is something that I have shared with you from time to time but after a while folks that don’t listen. I suggested to him years ago and I’ll suggest it now. I would love to know his thoughts after he took a look at the man in the mirror and let him say, ‘Hmm what was my role in all of these instances that I supposedly worked him. What is Vince’s role? What did he do good or did he do bad?’
“So he says I worked him in this relationship. Do you think there was ever a time that Vince – he’s a writer, he’s proud to say he’s a writer – that he wrote a segment and wrote that segment out and when I walked through the curtain afterward, he regretted it? Do you think I ever didn’t deliver for him? Maybe I did here and there but for the most part, I’m sure he’s going to take this and Conrad, I’m pissed off you’re even giving him the spotlight but it is what it is. And look, I’ve screwed up so many times in my life and I own all of my screw-ups. But, Vince is a guy who it’s always self-pity. It’s always ‘woe is me.’ It’s always ‘Look what this guy did, this guy worked me, this guy did that. I’m the smartest man in professional wrestling.’ Here’s the cold, hard truth. When WCW closed down, who’s the only person that has given him a full-time job in the last twenty years? Mic drop.”
Making Russo wait in a car before debuting: “I don’t remember him being upset about it, but waiting in a car is not, I mean, it’s not a big deal. But everything was a big deal to Vince if he thought it was something he needed to b**** about. I just don’t recall any of that being an issue and if we hid him outside, it wasn’t because we’re punishing him.”
His first impression of Samoa Joe in 2022: “He’s super talented, super athletic. You know, watching him over the weekend and you just think, ‘man, me and him have worked together a lot.’ For twenty years now, which kind of blows me away. Steve Corino was booking Zero-1 at the time. He had the affiliation or history with the NWA title. Hashimoto, you know, came to Tennessee and there’s history there with Hashimoto going way back.”
