Jeff Jarrett On His New Role With AEW

AEW Dynamite has featured some surprising debuts over the last few years and last week fans saw the debut of Jeff Jarrett. The former world champion made an immediate impact when he hit Darby Allin with a guitar and then he sent out a warning to the AEW locker room.

Following his debut Tony Khan confirmed that Jeff Jarrett won’t just have an on screen role as he will also be working behind the scenes as the Director of Business Development for All Elite Wrestling.

Recently Jeff Jarrett opened up about his AEW debut during an episode of his My World podcast, and he admitted that he was nervous before making his way out into the arena.

“In the different little footnotes of Double J’s career, I may be — and we’ve talked about this, I may be the last hire of VKM. That may, or may not be true. but from that point to now, there was a lot of soul-searching, a lot of thought processing, and I can tell you today, I don’t know if I’m more excited about the behind-the-scenes work, the executive work, or the in-ring stuff.”

“Karen texted me on Wednesday, about 1:00-1:30 PM, and said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I said, I feel like I’m a 19-year-old rookie pacing around WMC TV studios. I’m nervous. I’m nervous about tonight. I’m thinking things through and I want them to go right.’ So that’s kind of one of the messages I want to throw out there, folks. I’ve been doing it a long time, but I was as nervous as could be. When the lights were restored in the ring, it was a surreal moment. I had a little Fresh coat of paint oh, a little red and black guitar. It was really cool. I got a good crack at ol’ Darby. All the faces that I saw backstage, I mean, we can make that a whole podcast. I am super grateful. I’m excited. I’m ready to dig in, in all kinds of ways.”

H/T Fightful