Jeff Jarrett Names His Mt. Rushmore Of TNA

Jeff Jarrett is synonymous with TNA in many ways, and he recently revealed his Mt. Rushmore of TNA stars. Jarrett was asked the perennial “Mt. Rushmore” question during his recent interview on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. Jarrett is now with AEW, but he co-founded TNA with his father and was a driving figure ini the promotion until his tumulutous exit in 2014.

Jarrett named a few obvious choices in AJ Styles, Kurt Angle and Sting before waffling on the final pic. He named a few possibilities including the Knockouts division in general and Abyss, while also weighing in on if he would belong on that proverbial mountain. You can see the highlights below:

On His TNA Mt. Rushmore:

“I don’t think you can not have one without AJ, and I know from a business perspective Sting was a massive get early, and then when he signed. You look at Kurt, so those three almost are kind of givens. But when you get into that fourth one, you have to me, you know, in a lot of ways you could say the Knockouts division, long before the Women’s Evolution, and you know, if the narrative is that Vince McMahon took professional wrestling out of Smokey Bingo Halls and put it here. Well, TNA took the bra and panties and put it into competitive women’s wrestling. But anyway, that 4th spot, there’s a lot of, you could put X Division there in totality, you could put the Knockouts, I think when you look at the OGs that really came along, I mean, Abyss is in that conversation. The fourth one is always a tough spot.”

On a Possible Case Being Made For Himself In Helping Create TNA:

“Well, I mean, to me, that’s kind of a given, because when I look, and again, my dad had no interest, none, especially in 2002. He had gotten into the construction business, and then getting it, got he got into kind of the oil and gas part of a construction business, and was really wheeling and dealing very successful at the time, that was my old man. I mean, he had been in so many different kinds; wrestling was his main business, but he had been in multiple businesses, but at that time, he was really successful. My little brother, that’s when he was really breaking in, but he had no interest. So when I think back over, to me, God’s had a hand in every bit of my life, in that something pushed me to go, you know what? Because that’s a big step, I mean, hey, as opposed to, you know what, go back and whatever, work for peanuts for Vince, or go to Japan, or whatever. But for whatever reason, the different conversations, but I was kind of driven in a lot of ways, to go, I’m going to carry on the family tradition.”