WWE Signs Olympic Weightlifter, Jeff Jarrett Talks Vince McMahon Destroying WCW

Squared Circle Sirens is reporting that WWE has signed Olympic weightlifter Isabel Lahela to developmental contract. Isabel is a 22 year old Toronto, Canada native, and she won the 48kg weightlifting Junior Ontario Championship in 2014. She reportedly started training with Ashley Sixx and Kris Chambers in August of 2016 and later took part in the WWE tryouts in September. She’s set to report to the WWE Performance Center in April. You can check out a video of Lahela in action below.

Jeff Jarrett recently spoke to Real Sport about his wrestling career and more. During the interview he talked about the differences between WCW and WWE and how Vince McMahon’s leadership helped WWE succeed while WCW failed.

“No. Oil and water, if you want to compare the two. Vince McMahon, he’s third generation, and his enormous empire, he ran it much like the territories. The buck stopped with him, he made the decisions, that’s how a company should be run. Feast or famine, right or wrong, the WWE is driven off his decision making and always has been. WCW was a corporate world. Eric Bischoff, I have a lot of respect for the guy, because he not only survived, but he thrived in a corporate environment that was so difficult to succeed in. Was he the only decision maker? Not at all. It’s a corporate entity, and a publicly traded company, so it’s really not a knock on Turner and Time Warner and that organisation, but that’s the reality. An entertainment property, specifically a wrestling property, you have to have a decision maker. You have to have somebody who sits on top, that is guiding the ship, that makes the decisions. They were polar opposites, and in the end, the WCW money got them in first place for a while, with Eric’s leadership and the hot talent, but in the end, Vince destroyed them.”