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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 in professional wrestling for about 40 years, but first developed the guitar-smashing gimmick in the early 1990s, when he was in WWE. It took him 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 description of some of the “unique” guitar hits he has dished out throughout his career.
“It’s hard to name one; you’ll put me on the spot,” he told Pak Gazette Digital. “I’ll say this, one of the most unique, Fabulous Moolah, a 71-year-old woman who came up to me before I hit her and told me if you don’t hit me, I’ll hit you when you get back here. She’s a tough woman. Beetlejuice, of Howard Stern fame, is always up there. To this day, it’s talked about. Gary Coleman.”
Jarrett also revealed that he once went to Japan just to give Hulk Hogan a chance on guitar.
“But if you relate to 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 few hours, waited for the show to end, went to a press conference, knocked out Hulk Hogan with a guitar hit, took a shower, made a plan and came home. I think he would have to be up there too, on top of them,” he said.
Hulk Hogan showing off his championship belt. Hogan wears a costume consisting of a yellow ‘HOGAN’ bandana, a yellow sleeveless top, a weightlifter’s 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 named AEW’s director of business development.
Professional wrestling is very different from when Jarrett started in 1986 and even from the peak of his in-ring career with WWE and WCW.
Fans of the sport can watch professional wrestling on television or streaming at least six nights a week and sometimes seven with pay-per-views airing on Sundays. AEW programming takes up at least two of the days with “Dynamite” on Wednesdays and “Collision” on Saturdays.
“Who would have ever dreamed that pro wrestling would be around? There are literally weeks where it’s on prime time seven nights a week,” he told Pak Gazette Digital. “It’s on ESPN. It’s on HBO Max. When you really dig in, wait a minute, HBO, the fill-in-the-blank home for the last, you know, 30 years, the highest quality show made for television. And AEW, who I’m a partner with, ‘Dynamite,’ ‘Collision’ is on HBO Max, ESPN, Netflix, we can go on and on.
Jeff Jarrett and Ric Flair in action during Ric Flair’s final match at Nashville Municipal Auditorium on July 31, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
“It’s really something, from my perspective, I’m very proud to be a part of the industry because you get to see all forms of entertainment, in the music… they take a page out of the book of professional wrestling all the time on tour. I don’t have to tell you about the world of sports, every dance or football celebration or the championship belts that teams get when they win, we’re integrated into every major professional sport.
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“When you get into the episodic nature of our programming, the television industry has always been amazing. They say, ‘Wait a minute, guys, you have 52 weeks a year?’ We’re struggling to get eight episodes or ten 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.”
