Jeff Jarrett says his ego had nothing to do with making himself TNA world champion

I remember back in late 2022 when I thought Tony Khan risked turning off the AEW fan base by signing Jeff Jarret to a contract and giving him a whole bunch of TV time. A lot of that skepticism was related to Jarrett’s negative history with WCW and Impact Wrestling. In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Jarrett got into a discussion about the stigma related to making himself the TNA world champion when he was running the show. Jeff says the idea that his ego had anything to do with that decision-making is laughable nonsense: “Dutch Mantel, Vince Russo, Jeremy Borash, Scott D’Amore, folks that were in the room, they were well aware. But when I had to really have that conversation, when I knew that it probably needed to be said, I would look at somebody and say, do you really think the Jeff Jarrett you know, that has the most money at risk, is gonna make a decision based on ego, rather than dollars and cents? My money’s at stake. I’m the single largest shareholder of the promotion. I h