Jeff Jarrett: Scott D'Amore's TNA Replacement 'Is Not A Wrestling Guy'

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On the latest "My World" podcast, AEW's Jeff Jarrett commented on some of the big wrestling news of the week. 

Jeff Jarrett talked about the Young Bucks angle with Sting and Sting’s kids:

“The episodic nature of any story, if you don’t have that antagonist really up, I think if you look at any story in professional wrestling that’s had even moderate success, your heels gotta be standing tall. I feel like I'm old school, but any story that's been told since the beginning of time, in the wrestling jargon it’s heat, but you can call it anything you want. I thought it clicked on every cylinder. I was happy to see it in so many ways. Matthew and Nicholas leaning into the EVPs and just the celebration afterwards, and Sting’s boys in there. Well done. Absolutely well done. All four of them took an ass whooping from The Bucks. I’ll just say that things are heating up and the night in Greensboro is building.”

Jeff Jarrett on Scott D’Amore departing TNA Wrestling:

“As I sat down and drilled through everything, without knowing any of the details and as things trickled out, you hear, and I don’t know if it’s true or not, but the one thing that’s in there is he tried to buy it. The reason I think he tried to buy it, if this is true, was because he wanted to spend more money.” Jeff went on to say, “I don’t know the books, but the Asper family is very well to do and they’ve made a lot of money through the years off the television industry and cable and AXS and Pursuit and they did the merger a couple years ago or the acquisitions and Steve Harvey got involved. With all that being said, it drills down to I don’t know what TNA’s true EBITA, PNL, like the real financials. What does that really look like because it’s obviously Len Asper’s sole decision. I ask myself, ‘What did the profit/loss look like over the last six years' because there’s no way that you do the re-brand and you have, and maybe it’s just the internet, but it felt like it had the most buzz on the company in the last three or four years, maybe longer than that. They had quite a bit of buzz. The timing of it all is very perplexing. You never judge a book by its cover, but I don’t know what their financial picture looks like and the timing of it all. I'll say this, they got their work cut out. No doubt. No one is irreplaceable. We are watching that right before our very eyes, but no talent, no executive, nobody is irreplaceable in this industry. That being said, what is their plan in place? That’s what I’ve yet to hear come out. I know him (Anthony Cicione, the person taking D’Amore’s spot). I worked with him back then and I think he will tell you he is not a wrestling guy by any stretch of the imagination. He can be an executive and he is, but I’m thinking at the core, who is the wrestling guy? At the end of the day, that is an enormous component of who is steering the ship creatively?” 

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