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All Elite Wrestling star Jeff Jarrett is using the guitar as an extra to gain an advantage against his opponents inside and outside the ring.
Jarrett has been in professional wrestling for almost 40 years, but he started doing the guitar gimmick in the early 1990s when he was with WWE. He took it to World Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and later AEW.
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Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Ric Flair and Andrade El Idolo work during Ric Flair’s final match at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on July 31, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
He gave a brief glimpse of some of the “unique” guitar shots he’s hit during his career.
“It’s hard to say one — you’re going to put me on the spot,” he told Fox News Digital. “I will say this, the most unique type, Fabulous Moolah, a 71-year-old old woman who came up to me before I beat her and said if you don’t beat the hell out of me, I’m going to beat yours when you come back here. She’s a tough lady. The Beetlejuice of Howard Stern’s fame is always right on this day, Gary talks about it.
Jarrett also revealed that he once went to Japan just to give Hulk Hogan a guitar shot.
“But does it have anything to do with professional wrestlers, Sting, Hulk Hogan. I flew to Japan, I can say this as part of my job, I literally flew to Japan, got off the plane, went to the arena, waited a few hours, waited for the show to end, went to a press conference, knocked Hulk Hogan with a guitar, took a guitar, took a blueprint, took a blueprint. over them again,” he said.
Hulk Hogan showing off his championship belt. Hogan wears a costume consisting of a yellow ‘HOGAN’ bandana, a yellow bib top, a weightlifting belt, red spandex pants, and yellow cowboy boots. (Darlene Hammond/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Jarrett joined AEW in 2022 as a wrestler and was later promoted to AEW’s director of business development.
Pro wrestling is very different from when Jarrett started in 1986 and even at the height of his career with WWE and WCW.
Fans of the sport can watch pro wrestling on TV or streaming at least six nights a week and sometimes seven with pay-per-view broadcasts on Sundays. The AEW lineup spans at least two days with “Dynamite” on Wednesdays and “Collision” on Saturdays.
“Who would have dreamed that professional wrestling would be there, actually, there are weeks where it’s seven nights a week,” he told Fox News Digital. “It’s on ESPN. It’s on HBO Max. If you really dig, wait a minute, HBO, the home of the last slot, you know 30 years, the highest quality programming made for TV. And AEW, which I’m a partner, ‘Dynamite,’ ‘Clash’ is on HBO Max, ESP can go on Netflix, ESP.
Jeff Jarrett and Ric Flair work during Ric Flair’s final match at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on July 31, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
“It’s really something, from my point of view, I’m proud to be part of the industry because you can look at all kinds of entertainment, in music … they take a page from the book of professional wrestling every time on tour. I don’t have to tell you about the world of sports, all the dances or football celebrations or the championship belts that the teams get when they win all the big arenas.
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“When you go into our episode, the television industry has been amazing. They’re like, ‘Wait a minute guys, you have 52 weeks in a year?’ We’re fighting to get eight episodes or 10 episodes or a season of the show and you guys don’t have a season?’ So, it’s been a long time coming, but in terms of repetition, professional wrestling is up there. We are no longer a dirty four letter world.”
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