Jeff Jarrett wishes he could wrestle more, as only competing semi-regularly can be rough.
Jarrett, 57, has been wrestling for over three decades. He has been a top star in WCW and TNA at different points of his career. Jarrett recently announced that he had signed his last talent contract at AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen. He made it clear that he was targeting the AEW World Championship. Since then, he has started feuding with former AEW World Champion.
Jeff Jarrett recently appeared on The Bobby Bones Show. In one highlight, he was asked to comment on how much he was hurting, given the length of his career. He responded by saying that he wished he could wrestle more. (H/t Jeremy Lambert of Fightful for the transcription)
“This may sound crazy at 57 years of age, I wish I could wrestle more because wrestling every three weeks or once a month, I know for the next 48-72 hours, and I’m all into the recovery and the cryo(therapy) and saunas, and all that stuff, but there is something about the lactic acid build-up. It’s rough,” he said. ” I hate to admit it, but it is really rough.
“I’m not riding off into the sunset. I’ll be around professional wrestling. As far as an in-ring career, I just made up my mind, ‘This is it.’ I think I’ve also incentivized myself because I want one last shot at gold. I want to go out with a bang, somehow, someway, and then be done with it, but I’m not ready to be done with it, at all.”
Jeff Jarrett On Re-Signing With AEW
Jarrett recently discussed his decision to re-sign with AEW. On his My World podcast, he explained how Jay Lethal and others encouraged him to go out swinging.
“Jay, among others, there’s a former world champion who told me, ‘Are you kidding me? Go out swinging. You don’t have any aspirations of having some year, six months, three month run. Just go for it all. Give it a shot.’ So when I kind of looked at that and the contract negotiations kind of got finalized, I said okay, the whole premise of the promo was, I’m going for the world title.
“All the contract stuff came in, and it felt like there was as much buzz about the contract stuff as opposed to going for the world title. Either I’m gonna die trying, or I’m going for it all. I am really excited. I really am excited for 2025.”
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