Jeff Jarrett Opens Up About His Issues With WWE Creative

Jeff Jarrett is now a producer for WWE. He has to keep the company in mind, and that even comes with having a different take on controversial subjects. This isn’t his first run in WWE as the Hall of Famer was also around in the 1990’s.

During a recent remix episode of Something To Wrestle With, Double J spoke about his time in WWE as a performer back in the day. He also discussed his decision to leave the company. There were some issues with WWE creative at the time that he’s not shy of speaking about now.

“Brian (Road Dogg) walking out and WCW wasn’t on my radar. You can think what you want. It was a creative difference. Me and Brian got together. He was in Lowell, MA. He sang in front of Vince and Bruce and others. It got him a job and they put him with me. Me and Brian were on camera as Double J and The Roadie less than six months. This is the boss (Vince McMahon) and he had the right to split us up and shoot the angle. I felt there was so much more gas left in the tank to do another song, to do a concert. I didn’t think we were ready to be split up. I voiced it multiple times, but not loud enough, and certainly, I don’t think they thought that I was going to say, ‘I’m not up for this. I’m going to lose the title to Shawn and I did.'”

“My track record speaks for itself when it’s time to do the honors, but I’m not doing the angle afterwards.’ Brian will tell you to this day, ‘Brian, you make the decision that you want to do. I’m leaving, but you don’t have to.’ I’ll leave a cliffhanger here, but there’s a couple other reasons that he left as well. There was a creative difference that I didn’t talk through, and I’ll put that on me more than I’ll put it on Vince because I didn’t over communicate with him. It had zero to do with WCW. It had zero to do with my father. It had everything to do from a creative perspective that I thought that there was no rhyme or reason. The song just really started going. I’m Nashville, so I’m biased. I think the song had only been out six or eight weeks. Coming off Royal Rumble, I won the I.C. Title. Mania, everybody thought Razor Ramon was winning it back, everybody. We kicked off the first ever In Your House. We were just getting going. There you have it.”

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Jeff Jarrett’s career in the ring is over, but he is still contributing to the pro wrestling business every week. We’ll never know what would have happened if WWE had booked him differently, but he had his reasons for leaving. That road still brought him back to WWE and Road Dogg can say the same thing.

Thanks to Wrestling News for the quote