The Sun in the UK has a new interview up with TNA Wrestling co-owner Jeff Jarrett focusing on some recent comments by Kurt Angle. Given some of the responses, you can take these for what they are worth.
Here are some highlights:
On Kurt Angle:
“I can’t say enough good things about him as a professional wrestler. But Kurt the human being is a different story. The Kurt Angle we hired two years ago and the guy we have under contract today are two different individuals. He’s gone through a lot of change, in and out of the ring.”
On Angle’s comments about his late wife Jill on TV:
“For him to say that about Jill totally caught me by surprise. I found him afterwards and said: ‘Kurt, you need to focus. You’re not hurting me. You’re not hurting my girls. You’re hurting yourself.’ And that’s how I feel. My girls didn’t watch it, they didn’t see it. As they age, if I have to sit down and talk to them about it I will. They’re growing up in this business and they understand it takes all kinds to make this business thrive.”
If the comments about Jill were planned about before:
“I did not know he was going to say that. People will say it was post-produced or that this is just a storyline. But as a promotion, I let the post-production guys make the call. I told them: ‘You can take that comment out or you can leave it in.’ I’m not going to micro-manage, I’ll let those guys do what they do best.”
On his reaction to Angle’s criticism about TNA in The Sun:
“I was terribly disappointed to read that. You guys were there to interview him, about TNA coming to the UK, the video game, Bound For Glory – all the positive things. o for him to say those things was shocking, to say the least. Creative business, as it pertains to wrestling, is subjective. I truly think, although there are extreme cases, there is no right and wrong. I was born and raised in this business, but I certainly don’t have all the answers, Vince McMahon doesn’t have all the answers, no one has all the answers. As to what Kurt said, there’s so many grey areas in what he discussed and to discuss it in that format was beyond my comprehension.
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