Jeff Jarrett doesn’t believe pro wrestling is going to move backwards amid conversations about wrestlers protecting themselves from dangerous moves.
Much discussion came out of Saturday’s Worlds End pay-per-view after a sleeper suplex that Kyle Fletcher took from Jon Moxley off the turnbuckle.
While not directly referencing the match, it appeared to prompt William Regal to address wrestlers raising the bar and putting their long-term health in grave danger due to the propensity of damage to their necks.
Stop it now if you want a decent quality of life after Wrestling because that part of your life will be over before you know it and wrestling done right is hard enough but broken necks or death are not something you should think is tough or cool. It’s idiotic thinking.
On his My World podcast, Jeff Jarrett spoke about his experiences working at AEW and focused on the preventive measures wrestlers can take advantage of.
You ain’t putting the toothpaste back in the tube. That to me, is delusional thinking. Like, there is no chance in hell any of these guys are going to say, ‘No, no, no, no. I’m not going to do that because of long-term…’
I think you have to do preventive stuff.
The extreme high spots and moves and the creative stuff, that’s not going backwards. So, I just think it is, and Tony Khan does a great job; he treats it like a sports team. Like I said, five to seven trainers at every show. When you come through the curtain, they are there with a little hydration bottle, and they are, ‘How are you? How do you feel? Now, it’s up to you to say, ‘Ah. I need a little work’, whatever it might be, but that is that’s the real special sauce, the preventive stuff.
Jarrett explained in his assessment that he was always getting his body treated on his off days and that sports athletes at the highest level are doing preventive maintenance along with focusing on better nutrition, stretching, and cardio.
