Jeff Jarrett

**Curd** · 07-20-2012, 02:02 AM

Jarrett was over huge in USWA, especially when feuding with Jerry Lawler in the mid 1990s. As with other NWA stars signed by the then-WWF, WWE essentially killed Jarrett's heat by repacking him into an obnoxious character.

I really think that with his "Don't p*ss me off" gimmick and the accompanying t-shirt, Attitude-Era Jarrett could have been the second "working man's" antihero after Stone Cold (if not for the badly booked misogynistic angle they thrust him into to put over Chyna when it was decided that Chyna should not win the WWE World Title and hence should defeat the IC Champ instead -- not to mention his holding out for more money before the 1999 No Mercy PPV, thereby preventing subsequent stints in the WWE).

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07-20-2012, 02:02 AM	#7
Curd The Will & The Whey Posts: 2,580	Jarrett was over huge in USWA, especially when feuding with Jerry Lawler in the mid 1990s. As with other NWA stars signed by the then-WWF, WWE essentially killed Jarrett's heat by repacking him into an obnoxious character. I really think that with his "Don't p*ss me off" gimmick and the accompanying t-shirt, Attitude-Era Jarrett could have been the second "working man's" antihero after Stone Cold (if not for the badly booked misogynistic angle they thrust him into to put over Chyna when it was decided that Chyna should not win the WWE World Title and hence should defeat the IC Champ instead -- not to mention his holding out for more money before the 1999 No Mercy PPV, thereby preventing subsequent stints in the WWE).