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Post by The Rick Jericho on May 28, 2022 14:26:28 GMT -5
Did anyone else like this return? It was short lived to put over the one and only Elias. He threw some good punches, got to work one last time with The Roadie.
Instead of Corbin vs. Angle, we could've at least gotten the TNA farewell match of Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania 35.
Maybe he could've had one more run with the IC title?
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on May 28, 2022 14:33:24 GMT -5
I was happy to see him but I remember the stuff he actually did being kinda terrible, especially when Road Dogg was there.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on May 28, 2022 14:36:30 GMT -5
Honestly, it was a weird approach. Like, you’re not exactly going to have Slapnuts Jeff Jarrett as a face or anything but…that’s the one more people have seen? And would have gotten a better reaction.
It’d be like bringing back Billy Gunn as part of the Smoking Guns. Like, it was a character but it’d be weird to neglect the thing that he was popular for.
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Post by Nosnorb on May 28, 2022 14:45:47 GMT -5
It's surreal to think that anyone would turn heel by going against Slap Nuts, a career Rudo who was so uncool nobody wanted to cheer him in 1999. Not least Elias, who had turned face only a few months prior.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 28, 2022 15:00:41 GMT -5
They insisted on bringing Jarrett back as his New Gen gimmick.
He looked absolutely terrible in his old gear, as he always did in my opinion, and in kayfabe he isn't even actually a singer in WWE storylines
He had countless interesting character evolutions after that gimmick so it was completely confusing to me for them to go back to that short of deliberately humiliating him, which is absolutely a possibility
They have too big an Attitude Era fetish anyway but they absolutely wasted him in what they did do with him
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on May 28, 2022 15:25:39 GMT -5
Kind of surprised by the comments questioning bringing him back as Double J. Yeah he spent more times as Slap Nuts Jarrett but Double J was his most memorable persona and I think was the period of his career most fans are most fond of. Slap Nuts J was a forced main eventer in WCW and TNA that I don't remember a lot of people enjoying at the time and it really doesn't have strong nostalgia to it either.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on May 28, 2022 15:27:09 GMT -5
He wasn't great.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 28, 2022 15:29:13 GMT -5
"Impressed" is a strong word, but I had more positive feelings about it than negative. Just, shouldn't have been at Elias' face turn's expense.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on May 28, 2022 15:31:06 GMT -5
Kind of surprised by the comments questioning bringing him back as Double J. Yeah he spent more times as Slap Nuts Jarrett but Double J was his most memorable persona and I think was the period of his career most fans are most fond of. Slap Nuts J was a forced main eventer in WCW and TNA that I don't remember a lot of people enjoying at the time and it really doesn't have strong nostalgia to it either. I’m not even saying it’s the more nostalgic but, all joking about “10,000 guitars” and all that…dude made more money and was seen by more people as Double J than as the country singer nobody gave a f*** about. Because nobody gave a f*** about the Honkey Tonk Man’s apprentice. |
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 28, 2022 15:32:21 GMT -5
He looked a lot better aesthetically during his Effy match. Going with the New Gen gimmick was a terrible idea.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2022 15:32:46 GMT -5
It was dog shit.
Jarrett was great in TNA, especially in his MMA gimmick.
Why they had him go back to the Country Singer gimmick and have him sing "With My Baby Tonight" to deafening silence is beyond me.
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Post by Nosnorb on May 28, 2022 15:35:21 GMT -5
Instead of Corbin vs. Angle, we could've at least gotten the TNA farewell match of Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania 35. That would have been almost as bad as Corbin vs Angle to watch, and almost certainly would have been worse for Kurt.
Only one man should have been the final dance partner of Angle, and his name is John Cena.
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Post by Perd on May 28, 2022 15:35:26 GMT -5
God, 2019 feels like it was 100 years ago.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 28, 2022 15:37:25 GMT -5
Kind of surprised by the comments questioning bringing him back as Double J. Yeah he spent more times as Slap Nuts Jarrett but Double J was his most memorable persona and I think was the period of his career most fans are most fond of. Slap Nuts J was a forced main eventer in WCW and TNA that I don't remember a lot of people enjoying at the time and it really doesn't have strong nostalgia to it either. I’m not even saying it’s the more nostalgic but, all joking about “10,000 guitars” and all that…dude made more money and was seen by more people as Double J than as the country singer nobody gave a f*** about. Because nobody gave a f*** about the Honkey Tonk Man’s apprentice. Additionally, it's not like he didn't more or less do that in the WWF, too, near the end. Are we going to pretend '95 Raw had more viewers than, say, '98 Raw or whenever, where he already had the "Don't Piss Me Off" shirt and was basically just doing the proto-WCW Jarrett, just, not without the world title yet? I wonder if it came down to Jeff just not wanting to cut his hair short again.  |
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Post by Mozenrath on May 28, 2022 15:38:48 GMT -5
God, 2019 feels like it was 100 years ago. It feels like reflecting on 1999 wrestling in the year 2002. A whole lot of shit changed in a few year's time, especially compared to how 2015-2018 WWE would probably feel downright uneventful by the same metrics. |
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on May 28, 2022 15:58:00 GMT -5
I'm glad it happened, though it wasn't really that great. It's strange, they brought him back for the Rumble as classic JJ, and then on Raw he was AE JJ, but they gave him the New Gen music and The Roadie, who they kept calling Road Dogg. Maybe they could've set something up with a lower card guy after, but I was satisfied with it as a one (or two)-off return.
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Post by Cyno on May 28, 2022 16:08:08 GMT -5
It was... there I guess. I barely remember it.
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Post by welshpenguin on May 28, 2022 16:31:35 GMT -5
It was good to see Jeff back & in a good place personally. The table for 3 he did with Elias & Road Dogg was particularly good. I did enjoy his interaction with Elias at the Rumble but was a shame they turned Elias heel so soon after his baby face turn, he lost a lot of momentum that he didn’t really recover from.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on May 28, 2022 18:33:43 GMT -5
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Post by The Rick Jericho on May 28, 2022 18:39:59 GMT -5
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