Jeff Jarrett was the best choice to be the top heel in WCW 2000 because> WCW and Russo already tried Bret Hart out as the top heel, but then he had to retire in early 2000.> Scott Steiner was the other choice but WCW were right to not trust him as the top heel World Champ due to his psychotic behavior and penchant for going off script when he did his promos.as bad as the Russo Era was in WCW, at least Russo pushed someone completely new to the main event instead of going back to the well with old guys like Bischoff did.and coincidentally enough, WCW died with Steiner as the top guy, not Hogan, not Flair, not Sting, not Luger, not Goldberg, not Nash, not Bret, hell not even Jarrett and Booker Tat least Jarrett was safer to work with, not a total locker room cancer and didn't come with too many legal headaches that bit his company in the ass.
say what the fuck you wanna say about Jarrett, but at least he was a safer choice than Steiner.
>>19553959It's her punishment for the Passion Police bullshit in NXT, she's lucky she didn't get fired with Cora.
that Mike Graham guy was wrong about Jarrett, so who is he to say that such and such never drew a dime, when Mike Graham himself can't draw a dime either. Jarrett is worth more than Mike Graham.
>>19554020erm what? we weren't finna be talking about roxanne
>>19553926Theres an almost 0 percent chance you were watching WCW during that era and it’s likelier you weren’t born yet. This doesn’t mean you can’t have an opinion on it, but it’s very hard to impose your current ideas on what was happening back then. It would be hard for someone like me that was watching every week to describe to you just how disliked Jeff Jarrett was. I don’t mean disliked as in he was generating heat effectively. I mean he made people not want to watch wrestling. How the phrase X-Pac heat came into being and not Double J Heat I don’t know. WCW didn’t die because Steiner finally got his time on top. Steiner was maybe the only thing the majority of people that stuck around near the end were the slightest but amped about. The fate of WCW was sealed with the merger. Russo just hastened the people dropping the program.
>>19554110Jarrett was the only option to be the top heel of WCW 2000 because Bret had to retire and Steiner wasn't worth pushing because he's too severely flawed (both as a talent and as a person) to do business with.
>>19555886NTA but Anon do you have a point about Jarrett's talent or is he just the only possible choice they could have gone with because Steiner is nuts?Really you should have made a thread about Steiner
Remember WCW had Bob Sapp in developmental all this time and was doing exactly zero with him.
>>19555915Bob Sapp, the biggest most retarded nigger shitter of all time, who was very very briefly famous in Japan by acting like a retarded stereotype? THE Bob Sapp?!?!?!?
>>19555919>the biggest most retarded nigger shitter of all timeSee, 25 years later he's still getting heel heat from you, that's why they needed to push him.
>>19555921Go look at his fight record ya casual.Epic memer blown the fuck out. Shut the fuck up, cunt.
>>19555914also, Russo didn't want to rely on the old guard of backstage politicians like Hogan, Nash, Savage, Flair, Sting and Luger because he saw those guys as obstacles to the growth of the company and they are known for holding back younger talent.
The best thing that came out of Jeff Jarrett's existence is McMahon's promo on him after he bought WCW
>>19555934the reason why McMahon felt the way he did about Jarrett is because two years ago, McMahon and Jim Ross couldn't completely fuck over Jarrett by underpaying him.VKM held a grudge because he made a mistake of not making sure Jarrett was signed for No Mercy. The funny thing about that was, Jarrett originally just asked to be paid his PPV bonuses that Vince still owed him. But when Vince and Good Ol' JR didn't agree to it, that's when Jarrett said "Fuck it" and asked for more money because they breached his contract in the past.Jim Ross only held a grudge against Jarrett because his buddy "Stone Cold" Steve Austin told him to hate on Jarrett for perceived slights Austin felt about Jeff and his father Jerry Jarrett years ago.in the dog-eat-dog world of pro wrestling, Jarrett was just simply looking out for himself and his value and worth, and it was bad managing on Vince's part for not making sure Jarrett was signed for No Mercy, specifically his match with Chyna.
>>19553926WCW Jarrett was pretty based but I’ll never forgive him for creating swifties
>>19555886You didn’t get the gist of what I was saying which I assume confirms what I was trying to get at. Which also means I’d have a very hard time trying to get you to see my point. No one at that time wanted to pay money to see Jeff Jarrett wrestle. Being the last Indian in the smoke hole shouldn’t be your big qualification to be a top guy. Being friends with the bookerman isn’t either although that’s been tested at times throughout history.>>19555934This is probably right. Or the time he hit Beetlejuice with a guitar. But Beet was white hot and carried the whole segment.You can’t bring Beet out twice a week every week.
>>19555930out of the six old geriatric backstage politicians that Russo phased out, only Hogan, Nash and Flair still had some value. Sting would've been ok with taking a backseat to others because he's a team player backstage. only Luger and Savage were too physically busted up to keep being relevant, so those two naturally would've been the most unhappy with Russo replacing them with younger talent, even though they can't go anymore, and probably wouldn't have been able to keep up with Hogan, Nash and Flair anyways.
>>19555927You have to be 18 to post here.
He wasn't, and was never going to be, a top guy.
Russo thought Buff Bagwell was better than The Rock and, if he'd had his way, he'd have put Jarrett over Austin. He was a fucking idiot.
>>19553926You are rearranging history to fit your narrative
