WWE Hall of Famer and professional wrestling legend Jeff Jarrett who is a former four times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently compared some of the WWE stars with the legends of Basketball.
Jarrett travelled to different promotions before joining WWE in 1992. He stayed in the company for 4 years, and in this time period he won a number of championships too including his first WWE Intercontinental championship.
Jeff Jarrett Compares WWE Stars With Basketball Legends
That was the time when WWE was going through its worst time period and it was not easy for Jeff Jarrett to adjust with the style of the promotion. In 1996 Jarrett left WWE for their rival promotion World Championship Wrestling.
But he did not continue his WCW Run for long as he returned to WWE after just one year. In 1997 Jarrett return to WWE as a solid mid card. He won a handful of titles including the WWE intercontinental championship and the Tag Team Championship for a number of times.
After WWE bought WCW, the owner of WWE Vince McMahon decided not to keep Jeff Jarrett in WWE and he publicly fired him. Jarrett then formed his own professional wrestling promotion, and named it Total Nonstop Action aka TNA wrestling.
Jeff Jarrett who is a former four times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to Bally Sports where he compared some of the WWE stars with the legends of Basketball. He said;
LeBron James:
“Okay. So that’s dominant and physical… Brock Lesnar. It’s unbelievable what he did. He left our world and went to UFC and dominated and came back and so Brock – and you hear all the legendary stories about LeBron as a 12-year old and 14-year old and all this… when you look at Brock’s high school career and college career and then when you see him step into our world and I mean, he was a main-event in record time and stayed on top and went to the UFC and came back and was STILL on top!” Jarrett continued. “So I’m going to say, Brock.”
Kobe Bryant:
“[John] Cena has that killer instinct. When you really – and I know probably some in-depth number that no need to get into right here, Cena was handed that baton, and when he took the baton he literally said, ‘alright. For all the folks in Smackdown and WWE, let’s go!” Jarret said. “Because ain’t nothing gonna stop us!’ you know? Night in and night out with a really killer attitude. When you hear about that mentality; the Mamba Mentality… it’s Cena man.”
Michael Jordan:
“How can you deny Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson? The biggest box office attraction. So Michael Jordan makes more money today off his shoes than he did when he retired. So basketball is a huge platform and his legendary stories and everything that goes with it,” Jarrett explained. “But he transcended – Jordan transcended his game and The Rock certainly transcended; I mean, who knows? We could be talking about President Johnson one day as opposed to ‘The Rock’.”
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