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All Elite Wrestling star Jeff Jarrett for using a guitar as a foreign object to gain an advantage against his opponents in and out of the ring.
Jarrett has been a professional wrestler for about 40 years, but first developed the guitar-smashing gimmick in the early 1990s when he was with WWE. He transferred it to World Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and later AEW.
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Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Ric Flair and Andrade El Idolo in action during Ric Flair’s final match at Nashville Municipal Auditorium on July 31, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
He gave a brief overview of some of the “unique” guitar shots he’s dished out over the course of his career.
“It’s hard to name one — you want to put me on the spot,” he told Pakinomist Digital. “I’ll say this, kind of the most unique, Fabulous Moolah, a 71-year-old woman who walked up to me before I hit her and said if you don’t beat the hell out of me, I’ll beat your a- when you come back here. She’s a cool lady. Beetlejuice from Howard Stern always talking about the day Gary gets famous today. Coleman.”
Jarrett also revealed that he once went to Japan just to give Hulk Hogan a guitar shot.
“But does it have anything to do with professional wrestlers, Sting, Hulk Hogan. I flew to Japan, I can say this as part of my career, I literally flew to Japan, got off the plane, went to the arena, waited a couple of hours, waited for the show to end, went to the press conference, knocked Hulk Hogan out with a guitar shot and I thought he would be there and I thought he would be there. top of them too,” said he.
Hulk Hogan shows off his championship belt. Hogan wears a costume consisting of a yellow ‘HOGAN’ bandana, a yellow muscle top, a weightlifting belt, red spandex pants and yellow cowboy boots. (Darlene Hammond/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Jarrett joined AEW in 2022 as a wrestler and was later promoted to AEW’s Director of Business Development.
Pro wrestling is very different from when Jarrett started in 1986 and even at the height of his in-ring career with WWE and WCW.
Fans of the sport can watch pro wrestling either on television or via streaming at least six nights a week and sometimes seven with pay-per-views airing on Sundays. AEW programming fills at least two of the days with “Dynamite” on Wednesday and “Collision” on Saturday.
“Who would have ever dreamed that professional wrestling would happen, literally, there are weeks where it’s in prime time seven nights a week,” he told Pakinomist Digital. “It’s on ESPN. It’s on HBO Max. When you really dig in, wait a minute, HBO, the home of filling the void from the last, you know, 30 years, the highest quality programming that’s been made for television. And AEW, who I’m partnered with, ‘Dynamite,’ ‘Collision’ is on HBO Max, ESPN, Netflix, we can go on HBO Max and Netflix.
Jeff Jarrett and Ric Flair in action during Ric Flair’s final match at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on July 31, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
“It’s really something, as a guy from my perspective, I’m really proud to be a part of the business because you can see in all forms of entertainment, in music … they take a page out of professional wrestling’s book all the time in the tour. I don’t have to tell you about the sports world, any football dance or party or the championship belts when they win the professional sports.
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“When you get into the episodic nature of our programming, the TV industry has always been great. They say, ‘Wait a minute guys, you’re 52 weeks a year?’ We’re fighting to get eight episodes or 10 episodes or a season of a show and you guys don’t have a season?’ So it’s really been a long time coming, but through the iterations, professional wrestling is up there. We are no longer a dirty four-letter world.”
