Jeff Jarrett has considered a different option for CM Punk’s wrestling future.
Just like in 2014, the wrestling world is asking the question where will Punk turn up next? Reports had surfaced that Punk wanted to return at the Royal Rumble and coming back to AEW is not impossible, but what if Punk wanted complete creative control?
Speaking on the My World podcast, Jarrett made the pitch that Punk should create his own promotion as the schedule would be even lighter and he could do things on his own terms:
“I don’t know his headspace. I don’t know any of that, but if I was a betting man, what’s the downside to doing something completely on his own?” Jarrett asked. “Name the card [his] way … He don’t want to be grinding every week, I don’t think. Do four shows a year — one on the east coast, one on the west coast, one in the midwest and his hometown, and pick another one and see what happens.”
With the wrestling market in an abundance of promotions around the world, the Hall of Famer was asked how Punk would stand out. Jarrett responded by complimenting Punk’s mind for the business and if anyone has that ability to create an innovative promotion it would be him:
“In any form of sales, selling cars, selling houses, selling any product, [businessmen ask themselves] how are you new? How are you different? How are you going to cut through the clutter and how are you going to market and promote it well? I think Phil (CM Punk) has the ability to check all those boxes,” Jarrett said. “It can be a different type of show.”
Jeff Jarrett Helped To Create TNA
Jarrett is a wrestler who is well experienced in going out on his own in the wrestling world. Following the closure of WCW in 2001 and Vince McMahon publicly firing Jarrett following the acquisition of the promotion, Jeff would join his father Jerry Jarrett and Bob Ryder to create a brand new promotion at a time when WWE really was the only game in town. On June 19th 2002 the first pay-per-view by the promotion TNA aired on TV, giving birth to the promotion that is still running to this day and is due to celebrate 1,000 episodes of weekly TV programming.
Despite all of the above, Jeff Jarrett was not invited to the 1000th episode of Impact which aired recently.
H/t to Wrestling Inc.