Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett (born July 14, 1967, Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States) is an American professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, podcaster, actor, and businessman who is known by his in-ring name Jeff Jarrett.
Jarrett came into the spotlight when he made his debut with a country music star gimmick in the WWE in 1992. Over the next nine years, he moved between WWE and WCW. After WCW was purchased by Vince McMahon in 2001, Jarrett joined World Wrestling All-Stars. In 2002, Jarrett and his father together founded NWA Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) (now known as Impact Wrestling). After departing the promotion in 2014, Jarrett founded another new promotion, Global Force Wrestling (GFW).
Beginnings
Jarrett wanted to become a basketball player when he was in high school, but he worked for his father Jerry Jarrett’s Continental Wrestling Association as a referee in March 1986 and trained as a wrestler under his father and Tojo Yamamoto.
Jarrett made his in-ring debut at the age of 18 against Tony Falk. Jarrett is a third-generation wrestler and promoter who has had over 80 championship reigns throughout his career, among them the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (six times), WCW World Heavyweight Championship (four times), WWA World Heavyweight Championship (two times), USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (three times), and AAA Mega Championship (two times).
He was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2015 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018.
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