On the latest “My World” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett talked about The Roadie’s (Brian James) transition into Road Dogg, the success he had with Billy Gunn and DX, addiction issues, his arrival in TNA, his return to WWE, and more.
Jeff Jarrett on if he ever imagined the creative role Road Dogg would go on to have in WWE:
“Did I always think he had the creative mind? Without question. He gets the big picture and he gets macro and micro, from character development to entrances. In the Impact Zone, we all get there, he would always throw in, ‘Hey, what about’, having nothing to do with his match. He’s just a creative guy. That’s how his brain works. As far as being an artist because it goes without saying, his singing voice. The right side of his brain works incredibly well. That’s the creative side, so never did it surprise me. He used to say early when we got together and then through the years when we were working together, he’d say, ‘Jeff, you handle the business. I’ll do this over here.'”
Jeff Jarrett talking about the importance of having Road Dogg induct him into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018:
“I get a call from the WWE offices about being inducted. At the end of that call, ‘Hey, we’re thinking Road Dogg is the only guy to induct you. What do you think because we want to do whatever you think.’ I’m like, ‘There’s only one guy.’ He said, ‘Will you call him?’ I’m like, ‘Absolutely.’ So Brian was traveling in the Atlanta airport when I texted him and I said, ‘Hey man, can you talk? I got something important?’ I’m four months sober. He’s like, ‘Oh, boy. What is this? ‘So he’s like, ‘Yeah, I can talk. Let me get off this plane. I’m changing planes.’ So we talked in the Atlanta airport and I said, ‘Hey Brian. I’m gonna make this quick. I know you’re traveling.’ ‘You good Jeff?’ ‘Oh well, I got a little news.’ When I told him, you got to know Brian, but when I told him, ‘Hey, I just got a call. They want me to be in the Hall of Fame.’ Brian’s words like, ‘What did you say?’ He said, and his exact words were, ‘Who, you?’, because it all happened so fast. He’s like, ‘Hell yeah, I’ll call you tonight to get to wherever I’m going.’ That was a huge part of my life. So from October to that January call to what we got to do on stage in New Orleans, when I look at how they do the whole event now to then, it was a standalone event. Tickets sold, I don’t know, six, seven, eight though people in the New Orleans Smoothie King Arena. For us to get to sing that song, and I’ve referenced it that me and Brian, to use his terminology, I’d been in a foxhole with him in the darkest part of my life and he was there with me, and now look at us.”
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