WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett, who is also All Elite Wrestling’s Director of Business Development, appeared on an episode of his “My World with Jeff Jarrett” podcast. In it, he discussed various topics, including the recent WWE releases.
Jarrett said, “It’s another sign to me, just how the business just continues to rapidly evolve… I almost would say that I’m a little surprised that we haven’t seen more. Because of — look, we can talk inside the bubble wrestling all we want. But that organization is driven by Ari Emmanuel. I don’t want to say he’s the furthest thing from a wrestling guy, but he’s not a wrestling guy. And [Mark] Shapiro, they’re — and I’m saying this in a completely positive way, they’re completely bottom-line-driven and ‘turnover, turnover, turnover.’ I often refer to the Jack Welch book of [cutting the bottom 10% every year] for the health of the company. That doesn’t count into restructuring and doing this and doing that. WWE is a completely different organization than they were pre-Endeavor.”
On the pipeline of TNA and NXT:
“The pipeline of NXT to bring people up to the other brands, and the TNA relationship. They’re not going to carry anybody — I don’t see it. I don’t think they’re going to carry anybody on their roster. As a matter of fact, I think more is coming. I would say more is coming in a continual, there is no more ‘Post-WrestleMania [cuts] and then take a deep breath, and then you’re good for another 12 months.’ I think those days are gone. I think every couple of months, that’s just going to be the nature of the beast because of the way they operate now.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
