WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett, who is also All Elite Wrestling’s Director of Business Development, took to an episode of his “My World with Jeff Jarrett” podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including Bruce Prichard’s WWE release in 2008 and why TNA Wrestling didn’t sign him back then.
Jarrett said, “I heard this in 2008. I was shocked. Knowing by 2008, I left in 2000. That company is anywhere remotely resembling what it was eight years ago. And of course, they had gone through the WCW situation and then came out of that and there was a lot of change and turnover and all that. I still couldn’t really wrap my head around it, ‘Wait, they let him go?’ They’ve gone separate. Conrad, to say that it surprised me would be an understatement. And I immediately always thought about executives or wrestlers that had spent any time, and by 2008, he had been there, what, 20 years, 20-something years? And, this company was public. I was going to say I don’t think Bruce is really going to show any interest in us right now, at least for the foreseeable future. What I’d like to have had him. Well, of course, that came to light in 2017, but at the time I’m going, ‘I ain’t chasing him. His price tag is going to be way up there.’ That was my first thought.”
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