Jeff Jarrett says being able to “work” means a lot more than doing moves.
On My World with Jeff Jarrett, Jarrett was asked about transitions, the parts of a match between the big moves.
“When I say, ‘Hey, Conrad, this guy, he can really work,’ that’s really what I’m talking about. He knows how to carry himself from the time he comes to the curtain till how he gets in the ring, how he circles, how he locks up. Forget all the moves,” Jarrett said.
“Some folks refer to things in a match called a rest hold. I used to just scratch my head and go, ‘Okay, I get it psychologically or intellectually why you want to say this guy’s resting, but really, what he’s doing is working.’ You are getting the audience engaged emotionally. So working can also be translated into, ‘Hey, that guy knows how to connect emotionally with his audience.'”
“Transitions, rest holds, learn how to lose, more importantly than learn how to win, all those kind of things. It goes with working.”
Jarrett said Ahmed Johnson, his opponent at Royal Rumble 1996, did not have that experience yet.
“Ahmed could do the Pearl River Plunge, and he literally could look at the audience, at the hard camera, or look at a handheld and connect emotionally. But going from A to B to C to D all the way through the match, he didn’t have the experience. He just didn’t, and that’s what takes time.”
Transcription by Global Force Entertainment.
