Former six times WWE Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett recently looked back at the time when Vince McMahon shocked the world by purchasing WCW. It was not only shocking but quite unexpected back in the day as well.
There were a lot of wrestlers signed to WCW at that time. WWE hired a lot of them but except for a couple of names, nobody was pushed up to the main events. Only Booker T received a wealthy push.
Jeff Jarrett Looks Back At The Time When WWE Bought WCW
One of the big names in WCW back then was Jeff Jarrett who won 4 WCW World Heavyweight Championships in less than two years time. But Vince McMahon publically fired him after he bought the whole promotion. The segment was quite controversial as it was not scripted.
Jeff Jarrett later took it as a challenge and opened a new promotion in the very next year. The promotion was famously known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling which later became a big competition of WWE.
The WWE Hall of Famer on a recent episode of My World With Jeff Jarrett spoke about the time Vince McMahon buying WCW. He said;
“Just hearing different things but nobody could really say exactly what was going to happen. But I knew that that’s when some contract talks really started boiling up. Not really with me, but with other guys like this thing is really selling. Basically, who’s going to be the crew, and who’s not going to be the crew, and what’s the middle? I knew my contract and who it was with. I did not know when I boarded the plane, I’m positive I didn’t. I did not know Vince had bought it when I left Nashville on that Wednesday and got down there.
“The younger guys, they were definitely coming to me. They knew I sort of knew what that machine looked like up there. I’m like I have no idea what this is going to look like. The end all be all important question was, what does Nitro and Thunder look like moving forward? What is the answer to those kinds of questions of ongoing content creation?”
Credit: My World With Jeff Jarrett. H/T 411Mania.