From the Bowery: Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain (Disc II)

Posted by Robert Leighty Jr. on 04.25.2009

"I like JR. I think he was a pawn at times, and a pawn for Steve Austin, to be quite frankly."
-Jeff Jarrett

From the Bowery: Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain (Disc II)

-Things start with Jarrett discussing all the traveling through the various states that his father ran. It was a little different, but couldn’t prepare him for Puerto Rico or Japan. Those trips opened his eyes to a different style and a different way to run things. He got to wrestle against the Rockers in Japan which was a treat.

NWA Title: AJ Styles © vs. Jeff Jarrett
-Oct 22, 2003: TNA Weekly PPV

-This was Jarrett’s rematch, and to ensure he gets a fair shake, he put Russo in the hospital the prior week. This match had been building for 4 months as Jarrett had to fight his way through everyone associated with Russo to get another shot at AJ. Jarrett tosses three chairs into the ring before the opening bell to show he means business. Don Callis and Erik Watts (both representing TNA management) come down to talk each man out of using the chairs. A stiff lockup to start, and Jarrett gets mowed down by a shoulder tackle. AJ gets a quick pin attempt, but it only gets two. AJ gets sent to the floor, but is able to move out of the way of a Jarrett baseball slide. They brawl over the security rail, and AJ drops Jeff throat first on said rail. AJ Styles shows why he is the fucking man as he does a flipping senton from the ring to the floor and clears the rail to hit Jarrett. He tries to spring back into the ring, but Jarrett is prepared and shakes the ropes to drop AJ. Jarrett sets too early on a backdrop and eats a boot, but he no sells and kills AJ with a clothesline. A blind charge from Jarrett eats nothing by elbow, and AJ heads up top. Jarrett counters with a belly to back suplex. The camera shows Abyss and Raven watching from various places around the ring. AJ reverses a roll-up to a Styles Clash attempt, but it’s too early for that and Jarrett escapes. Jarrett goes for the figure four, but Styles gets to his feet and delivers a beautiful enziguiri. Chris Harris is shown at ringside. It’s like they are showing us who will be doing the run-ins this time, but it will probably end up as a swerve. This match has very little heat so far as the crowd is dead for some reason. AJ gets tossed over Jarrett’s head, but he lands on the ropes and springs back to get a sloppy German suplex for two. The idea was good, but their timing was just off a little. They fight on the top rope, and Jarrett hits what is basically a fireman’s carry into a diamond cutter. Again, a little sloppy, but still pretty cool. AJ goes for a spin kick, but a back trip leads to a figure four for Jarrett. Siaki tries to interfere, but Watts stops him. Dusty comes down and he sends Siaki packing to the crowd. Jarrett uses this as his chance to grab the chair and he blasts AJ. That only gets two, and now AJ grabs the chair. The ref could care less at this point it seems. Styles goes for a top rope guillotine legdrop with the chair, but Jeff moves. The stroke follows, but it only gets a two count. Jarrett gets more desperate and grabs the NWA Title. Watts stops him for a second and AJ gets a roll-up for two. The belt shot finally comes and that’s enough for Jeff to get the win and title at 12:14.

Winner and new NWA Champion: Jeff Jarrett via pin at 12:14
-This was extremely disappointing. The crowd seemed to be waiting for the run-ins, and the finish came off as anticlimactic. This was being billed as a match that would change the face of TNA and they only got 12 minutes. As a plus this was the first match on the DVD without any real run-in, as the Siaki stuff had no affect on the match. Still disappointing though. **

-Back to Jarrett at home as he talks about his first runs with the WWF and WCW. He was given an offer by Crockett in 1990, but his dad told him he was not ready yet. He thinks that is the problem with a lot of young guys today. In the early 90s the wrestling business was in the shitter for everyone so a deal was made between Memphis and Vince. The Mr. McMahon character was seen in Memphis years before it was seen on WWF TV. It was through that deal that Jeff decided to give it a go in New York. The idea was to combine Jarrett’s love of country music with his wrestling character. He loved the gimmick, and that’s when he brought along the Roadie. James talks about their chemistry, and how he always watched the audio guys before the WWF shows so he could get ideas for his Roadie character. Jarrett thinks the character was killed off early with the lip synching angle, so he decided to head to WCW.

-It was during the down time between promotions he got to spend a lot of time with Jill. He discusses coming into WCW during their hottest period. The n.W.o angle was making a shit load of money, and he got put right in the middle of the angle with the Horsemen. He thinks taking Nitro to 3 hours was a huge mistake, but thinks it was a decision made by people outside the wrestling business.

-They show the video footage of Hogan in Japan against Chono. At the press conference Hogan sets his sites on the NWA Title, so Jarrett runs in and delivers the El Kabong. He leaves Hogan a bloody mess with a chair. This went nowhere in the end though, but it gave TNA footage of Jarrett beating the piss out of Hogan for their video library.

-Tenay interviews Jarrett that same night, and they discuss Bash at the Beach 2000. Jarrett tells him to never mention that again. Vince Russo charges the ring and attacks Jeff Jarrett. Okay then.

Jeff Jarrett vs. Hacksaw Jim Duggan
-Oct 29, 2003: TNA Weekly PPV

-Jarrett attacked Jimmy Hart, so he promised a big surprise for Jeff. Hart comes to the ring to Hogan’s WCW music, and he announces Jarrett’s opponent is Duggan. The crowd goes….mild. Tenay mentions Duggan defeated Steve Austin to win the WCW US Title. Jarrett jumps Duggan before the bell, and pounds away in the corner. Duggan bounces out of the corner with a clothesline and runs through Jarrett with two more. He has had enough and bails to the floor. Hacksaw follows and abuses Jarrett with a Halloween pumpkin. Seriously. Duggan is showing a lot of fire and emotion here, which is appreciated. He grabs a chair and fires off shot after shot. He stops to chant USA and that gives Jarrett the opening he needs. He comes off the middle ropes, but Duggan catches him, and delivers a nice looking chokeslam. Damn, where the hell did that come from? Duggan no sells a thumb to the eye, and creams Jarrett with another clothesline. He grabs the 2x4, but Callis stops him from using it. Jarrett uses the distraction as his chance to grab the guitar and Duggan gets the El Kabong to end things at 3:39. Jarrett calls out Hogan, but Rick Steiner jumps Jarrett from behind on behalf of Hogan and Hart. They brawl in the crowd and use a chair on each other. The fight goes back to the ring as this is lasting longer than the match with Duggan. The fact that a ref is in the ring means this might be a match. The ref gets bumped, and another guitar shot kills Steiner. The bell rings for some reason, and Jarrett calls out Jimmy Hart again. Hart says next week it will be Jarrett vs. Sting, and that causes Jeff to shit his pants.

Winner: Jeff Jarrett via pin @ 3:39
-Duggan was showing some good fire, and thankfully things were kept short. This was all leading to Jarrett vs. Hogan in Jan for TNA’s first 3 Hour PPV, but Hogan backed out at the last minute. I believe the reason was a knee injury. As for the match with Duggan we’ll be nice and go: *1/2

-Jarrett touches on his 2nd WWF run, and things take a turn for the worse at home. He got a call telling him to get home ASAP, and finds out his pregnant wife has to terminate the pregnancy and have a double mastectomy. Jarrett gets pretty emotional here, and I can’t really blame the guy.

-Now we get the interesting stuff with the end of his WWF run. Jim Ross came to Jeff and told him they were cutting his downside after year 1 of a 2 year deal. He discusses the promo where he knocked Vince, Shawn, Bret, and Austin on RAW. He stated Austin 3:16 was blasphemous, and Austin was pissed. He felt Jarrett was taking a shot at his merchandise. JR was best friends with Austin and Jarrett feels that’s where the riff came between the two. His contract was coming to a close and he was still the IC Champ. He thinks Vince wasn’t aware because he was concentrating on taking the WWF public and left negotiations to JR. At the last minute Vince tried to change things, but Jeff was gone because of the beef with Ross. His contract expired the day before the No Mercy PPV, and he didn’t have to wrestle Chyna in Cleveland. He made a deal with JR to have past PPV money paid, and they agreed on a figure. Terry Taylor was there, and he tells what he saw between the two. Jarrett tells them they can have the belt and he will walk away, but they want him to perform. They reach a deal and shake hands. Jarrett stews for an hour and decides to pay the WWF back. He feels JR was a pawn for Austin, and did the best he could for everyone. Jarrett remind JR of them changing his deal, so he is changing the deal he made with them an hour ago. He now wants double the money! Fucking Awesome! Jarrett tells JR to take him to court, and he won’t even fight it because it could stay in court for years. He tells JR it is his call because he is heading to Nitro tomorrow without the belt. Vince comes back and Jarrett tells his he just wants the money. He has no bad blood with Vince, and will wrestle or not wrestle. Vince cuts him a check right there, and Jarrett goes out there with Chyna. He says Chyna didn’t know her ass from a hole in the ground. Heh! He puts over Patterson as a genius at wrestling finishes. He heads to Nitro and gets a call from the WWE thanking him for his time, and telling him he still gets his stock options. Jarrett says that’s the truth and it wasn’t nearly as bad as most people made it out to be. I tend to believe everything Jarrett says here because nowhere did he knock Vince or come off as anything other than grateful to Vince. His main beef was with Austin and by extension Jim Ross who handled the negotioations.

NWA Title: Jeff Jarrett © vs. “Wildcat” Chris Harris
-March 17, 2004: NWA Weekly PPV

-Jarrett was back to being a heel thankfully, and Russo was the director of authority (as a face). He named Harris the #1 contender as most thought this was a launching pad for him as the next big face for TNA. The crowd is pretty hot to start as they had rallied behind Harris for months to get this chance. The story is Jarrett playing the cocky veteran who doesn’t believe his challenger is ready for this spot. Jarrett controls the amateur wrestling early, and smack Harris around after riding him down. Harris snaps off a couple deep arm drags, but Jarrett is able to escape a third attempt. The story is tremendous early on as Jarrett is one step ahead of Harris at every turn, and keeps crowing that Harris just isn’t ready yet. James Storm runs down and fires Jarrett in the ring. Now Jarrett is flustered and he gets slammed for a two count. Harris gets a shit load of near falls off a roll-up, backslide, and sunset flip. Jarrett bails to the floor as we see Abyss hanging out in the rafters with a contract for a NWA Title shot in hand. Another ref comes down and sends Storm to the back. Jarrett can’t get any traction and is back dropped to the floor. Harris follows with a slingshot plancha, and the brawl continues on the floor. Harris gets stupid, tries to splash Jarrett from the steps, and instead hits the railing. Jarrett heads up top, but Harris rolls through a cross body and gets a two count. Now they show Killings hanging out in the balcony as he is also in contention for a title shot. Harris goes for a super kick, but Jarrett catches him with a spinebuster. Jarrett misses a back elbow, but is able to lock in a sleeper. Harris is able to break and lays Jeff out with a full nelson slam. He gets too full of himself again, and burns on a top rope leg drop attempt. Jarrett takes the opening to lock in a figure four in the center of the ring. Vince Russo makes his way ringside and starts cheering on Harris. The hold is turned over, and Jarrett suffers as Harris pulls him back to the center of the ring. Jarrett is able to roll back over, and both men are able to get to the ropes. Harris is worse off at this point, but both men have no problem trading blows in the middle of the ring. Jarrett drops Harris and starts paint brushing him. Harris fires up and asks Jarrett to bring it. He kills Jeff with a lariat and gets a two count off a belly to belly suplex. Good near fall, but Jarrett was able to get a foot on the ropes. Jarrett hits the arena floor, and tries to bail through the crowd. Harris is having none of that and jumps off the top rope, clears the guard rail, and lands on Jarrett. That was pretty insane though the crowd wasn’t impressed. There would be a big ass TNA chant for that one today. Both men are able to beat the count, and the action continues in the ring. Harris gets a delayed suplex where he holds Jarrett up there for a hell of a long time. He heads back up top and hits a nice flying elbow for a very hot near fall. Harris goes for the catatonic, but Jeff reverses to the stroke, but Harris fires him off from that and hits the spear. This match has been pretty rocking, but now TNA booking kicks in as we get a ref bump. Jarrett grabs a chair, but so does Harris. Jarrett eats both chairs and that only gets two for Harris. Now Jarrett has the belt and Harris eats that, but it only gets two. Harris pulls out the catatonic, and that only gets two. The crowd is kind of pissed by that one. Now the second ref gets bumped as Jarrett hits the stroke. The first ref gets back in, but he only makes a count of two. Jarrett goes back to the chair, and Storm returns to superkick the piss out of Jeff. The ref counts two, but Raven pulls the ref out of the ring, and screams for Russo. The guitar comes into play and Harris gets El Kabonged to end things at 19:49.

Winner and Still NWA Champ: Jeff Jarrett via pin @ 19:42
-Easily the best match of the disc so far, but it could have been greater if not for the normal overbooked garbage. Still, Harris looked strong, and the story was very good. ***3/4

-Now talk shifts to the downfall of WCW. The blame gets put on the merger with AOL and how people who didn’t know shit about the wrestling business were in charge. Sting says too many people were in Bischoff’s ear. Russo makes an appearance and he lost his heart in WCW when he caught wind they were selling the company. Russo said he took his ball and went home about 2 months before the sell to Vince. Tenay discusses all the stops and starts, and the false hope. Taylor tells the story of Sullivan calling WCW the Titanic a year before it went out of business, and how the suits didn’t have a clue. Booker tells us a lot of guys where making a shit load of cash who shouldn’t have even been in the company. Sting says there were too many cliques and he says he was part of that problem too. Talk shifts to the infamous Bash at the Beach match with Jarrett and Hogan. Jarrett says you can’t blame any one person because to him it was due to a lack of leadership. Without no real head figure you have no clue where you are going. Booker calls his winning the WCW title the greatest night of his life. He puts Jeff over for going out there and passing him the torch.

-Jarrett discusses the final Nitro, and he tells various wrestlers he doesn’t think Vince paid a dime for the company. Steiner says “We’re fucked,” and in a delusional way he puts Turner ahead of Vince as far as being a business man in wrestling. Jarrett laughs off Vince firing Jeff on the air with “J E Double F, J A Double R E Double T is G Double O N E.” Outside of Vince’s spelling mistake, Jarrett didn’t mind the public firing. He says Vince knows good TV and that’s all that was. Again, he puts Vince over saying he forgot more about this business than most people know.

King of the Mountain Match for the NWA Title: Ron Killings © vs. Chris Harris vs. AJ Styles vs. Raven vs. Jeff Jarrett
-June 2, 2004

-Killings won the title 2 weeks earlier from AJ Styles. They took the top 4 contenders and came up with this crazy ass concept that they still use to this day. Basically this is a reverse ladder match where you have to hang the title. To be eligible to hang the title you have to get a pin on someone. When someone gets pinned, they get sent to the penalty box (basically a shark cage sitting at ringside) for two minutes. AJ jump starts things by leaping off the ladder on the floor onto Jarrett. Killings has a go with Harris, but Raven pulls him to the floor. Jarrett and AJ head into the ring and continue their brawl there. AJ hits a spin kick on Jeff, and then hits a fucking springboard plancha over the penalty box onto the three other men in the match. AJ Styles is my hero. Styles and Jarrett brawl on the ramp near another ladder and Raven bulldogs Killings in the ring. Harris leaps from the penalty box and levels Raven with a flying clothesline. Jarrett suplexes AJ on the floor and Raven gets dumped by Harris. Now Jeff and AJ fight back to the ring where Jarrett hits a crossbody off the top rope. AJ rolls through and gets a two count. The stroke is blocked, and AJ gets another near fall. They do a reversal sequence and it ends with AJ getting the Styles Clash for three. That makes AJ eligible and sends Jarrett to the penalty box. AJ goes to hang the title, but Raven stops that with a well timed ladder shot. Raven had his back turned and gets speared by Harris. That’s enough to get him eligible and Raven gets sent to the penalty box. Jarrett and Raven have a meeting in the box and they agree to work together. AJ takes another run up the ladder, but the Truth meets him on top, and Styles falls to the mat. Jarrett gets out of the penalty box and immediately goes for Killings. Ron shakes him off and hits a second rope leg drop to Harris while he was hung up on the ladder. That gets the pin for Ron and he is eligible. Harris runs to the penalty box and starts beating the shit out of Raven. Killings climbs, but Jarrett powerbombs him off the ladder. Raven’s time is up and he and Jarrett work together to take everyone else out. The ladder is used very effectively by Jarrett and Raven decides to bring some tables into play. Raven and Jarrett use the ladder to dish out punishment to Ron and AJ. Harris finishes his time in the box and Raven is there to greet him as he exits the cage. Raven brings a third table into the ring, but nothing doing with any of them yet. In a sick spot AJ gets stuck laying on the ladder, so Jarrett and Raven calmly lift him off the mat and toss him over the ropes to the floor. Raven and Jarrett start trash talking, and their partnership ends with Jarrett taking the drop toehold into the chair. Tenay and West mention that even if you are eligible to hang the belt you can still go for a pin to send someone to the penalty box. That’s actually good strategy right there. Russo has been the keeper of the belt and he tosses it to Harris. He tries to hag the title, but Raven tosses powder in his face. The DDT follows to make Raven eligible and send Harris back to the box. At this point everyone but Jarrett is eligible to hang the title. Jarrett gets eligible by killing Ron with a stroke from the ring apron to the railing on the floor. I guess pins count anywhere because Jarrett pins him on the floor. Russo won’t give Jeff the title and after a game of tug-o-war, AJ gets a roll-up to send Jeff back to the box. AJ climbs the ladder as Raven has a table set-up nearby. Harris beats the living hell out of Jarrett in the box before his time ends. AJ gets knocked over with the ladder and crotches himself on the ropes and hits the penalty box. Harris and Raven brawl on top of the ladder, and Raven gets punched off and falls through the table. Killings comes back from the dead and shoves Harris off the ladder where he falls through a different table. Russo hands Killings the title, but Jarrett gets out just in time. He uses to guitar to kill Ron, and with everyone down and out, Jarrett hangs the title to become the King of the Mountain. The ending was blown a little when the rigging for the hanger fell apart and Jarrett had to put it back together before hanging the title.

Winner and New NWA Champion: Jeff Jarrett via hanging the title @ 20:01
-This was a pretty good debut for the match. The rules may be a little crazy, but it has become a TNA staple and usually provides a good match. There was never a dull moment in the match, and with 5 men in the ring with no rules, TNA didn’t have to overbook the match. ****

-Jarrett talks about the history of WCW from Georgia up to the Monday Night Wars. He calls the Monday Night Wars the greatest time to be in the business as a wrestler and fan. Can’t argue with that. He says WCW didn’t gradually die, it fell off a cliff, and now hundreds of people were without a job. Now there was no #2 and he thought the worst was yet to come.

Gauntlet for the Gold: NWA Title
-July 7, 2004

-Jarrett was the champ coming in, but there was controversy over that decision with Killings, so Russo booked this match. Hernandez (before his LAX days) draws #1 and Ron Killings draw #2 to start things. Again, this is basically a Royal Rumble, but the last 2 men have a one on one match to a finish. I should mention we are in Orlando at this point, and the 6 sided ring debuts on this DVD. Killings flusters Hernandez early with his quickness, and drops him with the spinning tackle. Killings comes off the top rope, but Hernandez catches him with a powerbomb. Onyx is #3 and he is part of the Elite Guard with Hernandez. The intervals are 60 seconds and Jarrett is #4. Jarrett has the Elite Guard on his side, so Killing is royally fucked at this point. Truth gets killed by all three men, but Konan is #5 to save Killings. The two members of 3 Live Kru take out all the heels, but another Elite Guard member, Collier (I think), is #6. The Kru gets taken apart as the clock hits zero. Naturally, BJ James is the #7 to give us all members of the Kru. He abuses Jarrett’s chosen ones with a couple reverse atomic drops. The final man in the gauntlet is Ken Shamrock. Konan gets dumped to the floor just as Shamrock makes his way to the ring. Shamrock destroys the Elite Guard with belly to belly suplexes and lets out a primal scream. Shamrock has loyalties to nobody, and drops BG James with a suplex. The Elite Guard gang up on Shamrock and he gets dumped to the floor. Even the sportsman, Ken tosses stairs, and starts destroying the announce table with a chair. He threatens to hit West with a chair, and I would add a * to this match if he would have done it. He does lock on the ankle lock to a member of security. While this was going on Onyx and Collie were tossed. BG and Hernandez follow shortly after and we are left with Killing and Jarrett in the one on one match. Not sure why they just didn’t run this match in the first place as everyone else added nothing to the match. Jarrett takes of a mistake by Killings, and applied the figure four. The Kru and Guard surround the ring to keep an eye on each other. Killings hits a sickening version of a neck breaker for a fall, but Hernandez pulls out the ref. Jarrett hits a belt shot, but James pulls out the ref this time. Shamrock makes his return and teases hitting Jeff with the guitar, but as expected he blasts Killings. Jarrett covers and retains the title at 13:29.

Winner and Still NWA Champ: Jeff Jarrett via pin @ 13:29
-Kind of a chaotic mess here, but it was never dull. The opening Gauntlet part was basically a normal battle royal, and the Jarrett/Truth match was too short to really mean anything. The swerve could be seen a mile away, but that’s expected. **

-The biggest thing Jeff learned in the WWF was the ability to deal with talent. He thinks there was some negatives and positives, but WWF knew they were a wrestling company first and a TV company second. He thinks WCW had that backwards. He learned how to run a company through what he saw in the WWF from catering to how to handle talent.

Ladder Match for the NWA Title: Jeff Jarrett © vs. Jeff Hardy
-TNA Victory Road 2004

-We are now in the monthly PPV era for TNA as this is their first monthly PPV I believe. Hall is supposed to be in the corner of Jarrett and Nash is supposed to be in the corner of Hardy, but both are no shows to start. The crowd loves Hardy and he seems pumped for this match. He doesn’t wait for the match to start and brings the ladder to the ring as he is introduced. There are actually 2 ladders already in the ring when the bell is sounded. They brawl to start, and Jarrett sets up a ladder in 2 different corners. It comes back to bite him in the ass as he gets whipped into each ladder back first. Tenay and West play up the experience Hardy has in these matches. Prior to his TNA run the only ladder match I can recall Jarrett being in was with Benoit at Starrcade ’99. Jarrett gets trapped between the two sides of the ladder and Hardy repeatedly closes him in it. He inverts the ladder and squeezes Jarrett between the two sides. Nice spot. He finishes that off with a basement dropkick to the face. Hardy starts a slow climb which is fucking ridiculous because he hasn’t even taken any punishment yet. Hardy heads up top to try the leap frog leg drop, but Jarrett is able to roll out of the way. Now Jarrett takes advantage of the ladder as a weapon and pounds Hardy. The crowd starts a dueling chant which is the first time I recall that happening on this DVD. Tenay mentions having Hall on his side may be a benefit to Jarrett because of his experience in these matches with Michaels. Jarrett starts his slow climb, and has to wait for Hardy to get to the top rope to drop kick the ladder. That was kind of sad actually, though I give Jarrett credit for trying to cover by making the ladder wobble some. Jarrett gets slammed on the ladder, and Hardy heads up top. He comes off with the Swanton while Jarrett’s on the ladder. Hall waddles down to the ring, and gives Hardy the edge from the ladder. Jeff still hasn’t moved from the Swanton, so Hardy remains in control. He sets up the ladders for the inevitable see saw spot, and after Jarrett tries a superplex, that exactly what we get. Jarrett takes the move a lot better than Joey Mercury did years later, so no splattered blood sadly. Both men fight on the ladder, and Hardy takes Jarrett off with a face jam. Hall pulls Hardy to the floor and fires away with solid right hands. Hardy ducks another punch and charges into the ring to knock Jarrett off the ladder. He climbs now, but Jarrett tips the ladder and Hardy falls out of the ring and onto Hall. Hardy takes on both men on the floor and decides to bring a chair in the ring. He uses the chair as a launching pad and clears the top rope to crash on Hall and Jarrett. Hardy goes under the ring to get the super ladder, instead of trying to win the match like an idiot. They do battle on the supper ladder on the floor and that gets tipped over. Both men crash and burn, and the ladder falls on Hall. Both men get back in the ring and each man sets up his own ladder. They climb again and Hardy hits the MDK powerbomb, kind of. He tries to do the spot from the apron to the floor this time and again they fuck it up. Hardy climbs again, but Hall prevents him from retrieving the belt again. Hall takes some abuse, and eats a Swanton for good measure. Jarrett comes back with the guitar, but Hardy kicks him away. Jarrett is resilient though and uses a chair to stop Hardy. Nash’s music hits and he comes to ring (late as ever). He brings two guitars with him, and if you don’t know what’s coming next, you shouldn’t be a wrestling fan. Hardy eats three guitar shots and Jarrett retrieves the title to retain at 18:35. West has Schiavone syndrome as he claims everyone had been fooled. Sure they were Don, sure they were.

Winner and Still NWA Champ: Jeff Jarrett via retrieving the belt @ 18:35
-A decent spot fest with no real story or flow. They took some nice bumps, but the overbooking hurt things once again. The ending was predictable, but still pretty shitty. **1/2

-This DVD ends with talk of Owen and his accident. Extremely emotional stuff from Foley, Cornette, and Jarrett. Jeff tells where he was, what he was doing, and all the thoughts running through his head. Jarrett says he didn’t know what truly happened until he was in the ring and saw the spot where the ring broke. BG James offers his thoughts and says Owen had second thoughts about doing the stunt. After his match Jarrett found a cop and told him to take him to the hospital. He tried to get answers from the cop, but didn’t get any answers, and realized things couldn’t be good. When he arrived at the hospital a WWF staff member came up and said “We lost him.” Cornette is happy he wasn’t there at the time because he doesn’t know if he could have handled everything. The Owen is RAW show is discussed and Jarrett’s talk rubs the McMahons the wrong way. Instead of painting the WWF as one big happy family, he says you only have acquaintances and a few good friends: Owen was a good friend. They show some photos of Jeff and Owen w/ Debra (whose face is blocked out) at a fan signing. The WWF Tag Titles are also blurred out to keep them from getting sued. Foley defends what Jarrett said on the Owen tribute show, and his respect for Jeff grew on that night. Jarrett says he can’t hold a candle to the moral integrity of Owen.

-Owen Hart: 1965-1999

The 411: Halfway there! This was the more entertaining DVD of the set though due to Jarrett discussing his runs with the WWF and WCW.

Final Score:  8.0   [ Very Good ]