AEW star and WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett discussed the future of WWE now that Vince McMahon has returned as Executive Chairman on a recent episode of his “My World” podcast. Jarrett told co-host Conrad Thompson the following:
“My question is Conrad, last week, I mean, not just the twitter world, just kind of, I mean, I got some crazy bizarre texts from two dudes in the law firm that reps me, obviously my buddy’s in the gym, it was just a lot of chatter, oh, hey, what do you think? Of course, they were asking about the Chairman re-entering the picture, but the questions really started landing on, you think he’s going to go private or you think it’s going to be a buyer and all that kind of stuff. Taking out the emotion, Conrad, because Comcast, Disney, Amazon or whatever publicly traded company versus going private, and I think there’s a couple of different scenarios where it could probably go.
“Why don’t you ask me what I want to see happen. I definitely believe and we don’t have a lot of history in our industry, but the professional wrestling is just run much better in a private setting because there’s a vision, there’s a final decision maker, the buck stops with one person. It’s just how I think the success of our industry can thrive. And I’m just saying, I think the wrestling industry can be much more successful if WWE is private for all the obvious reasons and some not some obvious. When you’re in the public world, in a lot of ways, your boss is Wall Street and how much context does Wall Street really have in our industry. That’s how I view it. Corporations kill wrestling. Court wrestling will never work in a corporate structure. No matter who is in charge at WWE, try explaining that, two levels up, three levels up, Bob Iger, Jeff Bezos, whatever. Believe me, I’ve done it on a teeny, teeny, tiny level, but I had to do with Panda often. It’s very hard to translate.”
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(H/T link back to Joshie Lopez and WrestlingHeadlines.com for the transcription)
