WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett, who is also All Elite Wrestling’s Director of Business Development, took to an episode of his “My World with Jeff Jarrett” podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including Maven calling former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon a transactional human being.
Jarrett said, “I’ve known quite a few folks, or know quite a few folks [who fell out of Vince’s good graces]. But yes, Vince? Yeah, I can’t disagree with that. And now I do think — you know, a lot of people, there’s such a mystique and an aura around him, and all the controversial stuff and all the current, we’ll call it litigation, and all that kind of stuff. But you know, I do think Vince has a human side to him. But when it came down to business, he’s not the only businessman that looked at it completely transactional. And I think — it’s my understanding and here and being around him all those years, hearing my father talk and others talk, he’s modeling what his old man was and probably what his old man’s peers were. It was, ‘That’s how the business operated.’ Take it or leave it, for better or worse. Come in, if you can make money off of talent you do, and if not you cut them loose. Just a business. Jack Welch, and all the other famous CEOs. It’s just how the wrestling business is. Our business is unique because there’s such a human side to it, and a larger-than-life, and a myth side. But good for Maven. He kind of phrased it for you. I’ve always kind of looked at him that way, though.”
On John Cena never being a heel as a top star:
“Wouldn’t you say that he was such a lightning rod that the ones that wanted to boo him all those years, he was a heel to them during that?… You wanted to see him play the role of an antagonist.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
