Jeff Jarrett talks how AEW develops and nurtures young talent.
AEW have a litany of young talent on their roster, with the likes of Nick Wayne featuring on the roster despite still being a teenager. Elsewhere in Ring Of Honor, Billie Starkz has also been one of the top names of the brand, currently holding the Ring Of Honor Television Championship.
While speaking on the Battleground podcast, Jeff Jarrett was asked about what programs and initiatives AEW have in place to develop new talent.
"You know, when you think about that, you're talking about the evolution of developing talent. Well, the business continues to evolve. You see our guys, not that Jon Moxley needs reps, but he just went to Japan. You see us working with CMLL. I'm currently going down to AAA in Mexico. Like I just said, the relationships with New Japan Wrestling. Our talent are exposed, the Ring of Honor brand. To take it a step further down from that is the different independents. There's an independent promotion in Cleveland that I'm currently working with. Guys have their opportunities. When you mirror it, because I think we've come from an era of I'll call it late 90s that when there was really too big and how the business was, you either work for one or the other. Those days are truly in the rearview mirror. So now you kind of look at the opportunities and you kind of look at the music business. It used to be, you know, three, four, maybe five labels in the music industry ran not just Nashville, but New York and L.A. You were on one of the big three, one of the big five. That's how you got your music break. Those days are gone. So all forms of entertainment, whether it's music, whether it's truly comedy, wrestling, it doesn't really matter. Again, it goes back to what we carry around in our pockets. With the different apps, you can expose yourself to your audience in a major, major way. I think that's what talent have to have the mindset. I think it all starts doing the ears with talent on how do they want to become successful? emotionally engage with your audience. It drills where I say that often on my podcast, how does the talent grow their fan base? It's all through emotional connection."
Jarrett last competed on Wednesday's AEW Dynamite, where he would be eliminated from the Owen Hart Foundation tournament by Hangman Page. You can read more about that here.
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