Jeff Jarrett is very positive about the current state of professional wrestling.
The landscape of wrestling is currently thriving, as both major and minor promotions around the world are doing record numbers from a business and attendance perspective. In 2024 alone, AEW and WWE have signed multiple new media rights deals while a promotion like TNA Wrestling is selling out major shows left and right.
On the latest edition of his My World podcast, Jeff Jarrett went as far as to say that there's more opportunity in today's wrestling landscape than there has ever has been before.
“Without question, the opportunities that exist today. I believe there’s more opportunity today in professional wrestling. I know that’s a very broad [statement], but whether it’s promoting shows, running shows, action figures, video games, streaming opportunities, the almighty social media strategy that continues to evolve, you can just kind of look — I don’t care if it’s CMLL, AAA, New Japan, other promotions in Japan that are popping up, UK. India opportunity is the last frontier I’d say in a lot of ways. The possibilities are endless and that is something that I am well aware of. In 2002, launching TNA, yeah there was an opportunity but I mean it was such a different path. 2013, when I resigned from TNA, there was opportunity but it was still, I think the business was just in a different place. Fast forward eleven years later, the landscape, entertainment is very very different. The music business is different, look at Amazon Prime and Apple and Netflix and linear television and everything goes with it. The world of professional wrestling, there’s never been more opportunity in this business then there is today and that is absolutely what I’m most excited about.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jarrett briefly spoke about his WWE feud with Elias. Learn more about those comments by clicking here.
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