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Jeff Jarrett (right) and Karen Jarrett (left) at All In in August 2023. On November 2, 2022, Jarrett made his debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on Dynamite , making his first televised wrestling appearance on TBS in over 21 years since the final episode of WCW Thunder on March 21, 2001.
Jeff Jarrett's official WWE Hall of Fame profile, featuring bio, exclusive videos, photos, career highlights, classic moments and more!
This show will take listeners on a journey not only through Jeff Jarrett’s Hall of Fame career as an in-ring performer but also his time as a promoter and company owner.
- Overview
- Professional wrestling career
- Media
- Personal life
- In wrestling
- Championships and accomplishments
Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett, (April 14, 1967) is an American professional wrestler. He is well known for his multiple runs in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
A second-generation wrestler, Jarrett has held seventy championships in various promotions throughout his career. He is recognized as an 11-time world champion, having been a six-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, four-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time AAA World Heavyweight Champion. He has also accumulated five additional world title reigns, being a three-time USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion and two-time WWA World Heavyweight Champion. While he never captured the WWF Championship during his time with the WWF, he challenged for the title and achieved notable championship success in the promotion, becoming a six-time Intercontinental Champion (a record from 1999–2004), and is one of three men to hold both the Intercontinental and European Championships simultaneously. He is the first wrestler to be a two-time King of the Mountain, and also won the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) tournament Rey de Reyes in 2004.
Born in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Jarrett became involved with basketball when he was in high school, but, he worked for his father Jerry Jarrett's Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) as a referee in March 1986 and trained as a wrestler under his father and Tojo Yamamoto. Jeff Jarrett made his in-ring debut at the age of 18 in April 1986 when jobber Tony Falk attempted to end his lengthy losing streak by challenging Jarrett, then a referee, to a match. Jarrett accepted the challenge, wrestling Falk to a 10-minute draw. Jarrett is a 3rd-generation wrestler; his father wrestled, as did his maternal grandfather, Eddie Marlin, while his paternal grandmother, Christine, was employed by a wrestling promotion.
In 1989, Jerry Jarrett purchased the Texas-based World Class Championship Wrestling promotion and merged it with the CWA to create the United States Wrestling Association (USWA). Over the following years, Jarrett won the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship on 10 occasions and the USWA World Tag Team Championship on 15 occasions. Jarrett also wrestled on the independent circuit for 7 years, appearing in Japan and Puerto Rico. In 1993, he was hired by the World Wrestling Federation.
TNA announced that on April 14, 2009 the first-ever Jeff Jarrett DVD release would be a four-disc set, including his best TNA matches and moments, a lengthy and candid interview on his life, career and TNA Wrestling, rare photos, and guest commentary, among others.
Jarrett was married to his "high school sweetheart" Jill on November 14, 1992, with whom he had three daughters, Joslyn, Jaclyn, and Jerlyn. His parents names are father, Jerry W. and mother Deborah. He also has two brothers, Jerry Jr. and Jason, and he has one sister, Jennifer. Jill was diagnosed with breast cancer in the late 1990s, and died on May 23, 2007 at the age of 38 from cancer, exactly eight years after the death of his friend Owen Hart.
In 2009, It was reported that Jeff Jarrett was romantically linked to Karen Angle. This resulted in TNA president Dixie Carter placing Jeff Jarrett on leave of absence. The situation was revealed in July 2009 when a caller claiming to be a TNA employee called in on Bubba the Love Sponge's radio show. Dixie Carter commented on the situation on Impact, stating "a personal situation that affected the company and it put all of us in a very difficult position." She said Jeff was placed "on leave as both a talent and in his capacity with the company and I'd like to leave it at that." In December 2009, Jeff returned to TNA, using the real life situation briefly as a storyline, although his status backstage is unknown. On April 6, 2010, Jarrett and Karen Angle announced their engagement. Jarrett and Angle were married on August 21, 2010.
•Finishing moves
•Running DDT – 1993–1994, used rarely as a regular move thereafter
•Figure-four leglock
•The Stroke
•Signature moves
•Diving crossbody
•American Wrestling Association
•Rookie of the Year (1984)
•Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
•AAA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
•AAA Rey de Reyes (2004)
•Continental Wrestling Association
‘My World’ with Jeff Jarrett takes listeners on a journey through Jarrett’s illustrious Hall of Fame career as an in-the ring, main-event professional wrestler, to a promoter and company owner.
Apr 2, 2018 · Jeff Jarrett has spent his entire his entire life in the wrestling business. As a kid growing up in Tennessee, he watched his father Jerry Jarrett as both a wrestler and then as a successful...
IMDb profile of Jeff Jarrett, a professional wrestler and actor who has worked for WWF, WCW, TNA, AEW and more. See his biography, filmography, photos, videos, trivia and FAQ.
