Hey, this is Almighty Bobby lastly, and you're listening to the baby Face Podcast. Hey, this is Brittle and you're listening to the bros. This is the baby Faces Podcast. How's going on? WB Superstar to Celtic Warrior Shamus? And you are listening to the One Only Baby Faker? All right, you guys, hear that music? You know what time it is? You are back on the baby Faces podcast on iHeartRadio. What's going on? Everybody? I am your co host? Gonna be writing alone today it's Austin.
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and I said, I got your brother. You know, it's not that you know, we threw this word out last week when we had Paul White aka the Giant on our podcast legend, and we have a second legend in just as many weeks. We are here with Double J Jeff Jarrett, former n w A champion, w c W champion himself. What is going on, Jeff, Welcome back to Louisville. Dude, Stone cole Atin anybody call you Stone cole I've been called that my whole life. It's it's always that
or Austin Powers. Always got the Austin Powers. Oh okay, and you know what, that's fine too. I like Austin No. Appreciate you. Yeah, appreciate you chatting a little bit about professional rest. Yeah, absolutely, Louisville and obviously a W Yeah. Absolutely. Well let's get started on an aw I mean just record breaking were in London you kind of helped kicked off the show over there in Wimbley Stadium, record breaking crowd was What was that like? What was all in like when your end? I know you
kind of like helped build the crowd up. You kind of got got your heat early to start the show. What was it like being you know, a part of like what what was just a startup company a couple of years
ago? Now, record breaking in the wrestling industry. What was all in like Frean Wembley, you know, being a third generation guy, and it feels good to be here in Louisville, and you know, my grandmother and father came to this town way back in the seventies and kick things off to The reason I bring that up right away is because standing in Wimbley Stadium that Sunday morning, you know, actually the production set up was, you know,
putting the final touches on. But to stand out in the middle of the stadium and look around and know that that night, you know, over eighty thousand fans we're gonna be in there, it was surreal. Had a lot of gratitude just my family again being in this business nineteen forty six. Yeah, that's saying a lot to see it all kind of roll along and like you said, aw a company that's you know, it's still in so many ways a startup. It's hard to for for some people to fathom that
we would call it a startup. With two hours on Wednesday night on TBS and two hours on Saturday night on TNT and our own Friday nights and pay per views, and during the Wimbley event but it is still a relatively new company. But Wembley Stadium was. It was special in so many ways that that that you have to say that that field, that that area of Wembley
of London. It is much like you know, we hear the mecca of entertainment Madison Square Garden or back in the day the Forum where we have a pay per view coming up, and there's all kinds of famous buildings here in Louisville. People don't even remember Louisville Gardens right down the street, down and right around the corner. But no, when you're playing in the one hundredth anniversary of Wembley Stadium and it was recordbraading the most attended wrestling event in history
from a paid attendance mark, it was special. Uh, and it you know, it's just it's a great time to be in our Yeah, say the least absolutely, and we will say the forbidden words. You've been a part of wrestle many You've been putting a part of some of the biggest pay per view star kades at w c w's put on. So that's a lot to say coming from you know, just like I said a couple of years
ago, there wasn't that sort of competition. And now you guys are, and you guys are in Louisville finally making your debut for Collision and Dynamite. What do you think fans can expect when they come out to the KFC. I'm saying, you know, Uh, first off, I'll correct you. It's a Dynamite rampage. You know what Maddy got me with that last time. I just I get that. I get that Friday and Saturday show stuff. Yeah, no, no, no, no, but you know I'm
telling you what all everything gets kicked off eight o'clock. Yeah, when we go live, and like to say that when Dynamite comes on the air, we come in uh there in fifth gear. We're not first or second. We don't have to shift gears. We come on pedal to the metal. Right. But it is something that the aw culture, the the audience has come to uspect that it's truly two hours of bell to bell action. Uh. The show really never slows down, never takes a breather. Uh,
it is wide open the entire time. And you know, you're very schooled in the roster, but to really drill down the roster of a w very diverse best blotcha doors, best from Japan obviously, Canada, Europe, all over the world. It's a melting pot over at aw. It really is in a lot of ways. But from the veterans to the up and comers and everybody in between, it is. It's a unique roster, super the most of our diverse roster I've ever been a part of. Yeah, but
it is it's special. Uh and and you know, for me again, been coming to the Louisville since I was a little kid to be at the Young Center. Uh, you know, as the venues evolved through the years. It's really special. So I can't wait. Absolute kind of missing. It's on a Wednesday night as opposed to a Tuesday, but I'll take away Yeah night, absolutely dynamite. It's it's a it's a little wrestling hump day, right, no one, no one's ever met at that. We were
talking on off air. A couple of people are just meeting you. They asked if you're gonna be wrestling tomorrow night or what kind of capacity you're gonna be in. You're you're gonna be around, right, Let's just say as long as I have a microphone and a guitar, I'll be good to go, but you never know stepping in the ring. The group that I'm associated with, we're all very very tight off screen. Yeah, signed j Jay
lethal Suttenham seeing my wife Karen. Ye it is. It's a unique group and there's one thing for sure, it's damn sure going to be entertaining. Absolutely, but uh uh we we have a good time and uh you know, the people in this community are are well aware, but well well schooled and professional wrestling. They know what they like, they know what they don't like. So absolutely you know what you know what Kentucky ens do and don't
like. You've been here before. Let me just say this, Tony Kahn, if you don't put a microphone in Jeff Jared's hand on his return to Louisville, Kentucky. But we know, we know what to expect and once again you guys can catch that tomorrow. It is going to be a great one. AW is going to be making their debut here Louisville, Kentucky at
the KFC Young Center. You can go check our events page at ninety seven to five w a MZ dot com keyword contest find out how you can win some pretty sweet seats and also make sure to retweet and like this episode, you could be getting into that show tomorrow and catching those two tapings and catching our guy Jeff Jarrett right here. Once again, this is a baby Faces podcast with Jeff Jarrett. You've already mentioned it, Broll. You kind of
buried the lead here. The Louisville Gardens. When I say Louisville and Louisville Gardens, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? Tuesday night, no WAVETV. Yeah, got to play word association Tuesday Night's Wave TV on Saturday mornings. The Louisville Market, the Derby City, you know, us locals, Uh, you know it is. It's just special. Yeah, the the I call it the wrestling community, Uh, through the years has
really never wavered ye. Back in the day, you know, we would make Memphis on Monday nights and Louisville Gardens on Tuesday night, Evansville Coliseum on Wednesday, and Saturday it was Nashville, but Louisville was always a really special uh stop if you will. And again I've spent many many a night here at the Gardens and that building had a certain electricity, a certain vibe, like like the older venues do. But it's time, you know, moves on. It is time to move on. And uh, I've never been
in them centers. I hear great things about that venue. It's it's a really nice place. I've been there for concert, it's been there for wrestling all the time. It's it's interesting you've never been you never been there for them, say it's it's really really cool. I think you're going to get a unique atmosphere when you actually go over to the gardens. It's kind of decrepit now. It's it's got like the g's fallen off of it, I think, but I remember actually looking it up the other day. And also
I come from a wrestling just a wrestling fan family. Uh my dad shout out to my dad real quick. Kirk Kley always told me about always going to the garden on Tuesdays and always watching you. He recalls specific memories when you were still kind of cutting your teeth and doing referee business and they always used to pick on you and then just one time you snap and then you started whooping everyone's ass. I looked at a flyer that had Rick Flayer and
the Ultimate Warrior headlining in and on the Undercard. I see Jeff Jarrett versus the mounte Oh wow, don you remember any of your best matches with the Mountain, Oh, Jaco? That was ninety two probably yeah, probably, yes, yes, October of not it might have been on the date that many years ago. You find that I just typed in Louisville Gardens Jeff Jarrett and that's what came up. I'm gonna have to try to go. Yeah, it was, and they have they have your name on a couple of
That was fantastic stuff. That is man that you talk about. That was right now transit. You know I started in April of eighty six. Yeah, wow, thirty seven years ago. But as as things rolled along, you know, ninety two three, ninety three's when Double J made his debut October of ninety three. But yeah, you're talking about Wow Flair Warrior, Big Boss Man versus Nails. Give me the car quick, just let me hear the car here, give it to give it the rundown. This is
what month? Does it say? What month? Yes? This is Let me go ahead and see. This is Wednesday, October twenty eighth, seven PM, headlined by Rick Flair and Ultimate Warrior Macho Man Randy Savage versus Razor Ramone, Big Boss Man versus Nails, Jeff Jarrett versus The Mounty Wow, almost start almost what thirty one years of the day. Almost unbelievable. That is unbelievable. Happened right there at the Louisville Gardens. Man. A lot
of history in this town. I mean there's there is a many I've been doing the media stops around town and uh, seeing some old buddies, but seeing seeing different things. And you know, you you ask us what's going on to the gardens, what's going on at Broadbent? Yeah? What do they do at it Free Hall? Uh? You know I've come up here
for years with my daughters playing uh travel basketball. So the tournament's over there, but getting caught up on all things, and you know you see the exits and Fern Valley and Bartstown Road and just all the old stomping grounds that I used to go to Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Yeah, absolutely, I mean all that. It brings me how many times you cracked Jerry the King Lawlor
Bill Dundee's head with the chair over here. But it brings out great memories and for me to have the opportunity, uh, to come back to Louisville and with a part of a W dynamite. Uh, you know, it's it's just special. You know, go around the country literally go around the world promoting and talking about it and always direct them to a w ticks dot com. Yeah, uh if you want to get tickets, but uh that that's that's where it's at. And uh, you know tomorrow night at the
MP Center, it's going to be rocking, absolutely absolutely. Well, we've mentioned that you've been around everywhere. One of the most unsung places is in
w A. And I've talked to people all around the wrestling industry. There is no ae W, there is no WWE, there is no w c W without n w A. And you've got to hold the precious ten pounds of Gold that's even made its debut here in ninety seven and five w A mz iHeartRadio on the baby Faces. Current champion E C three has been on with the ten pounds of Gold and he said that was the most important champion or achievement that he's ever had in his life. What are the ten pounds
of NWA gold mean to you? When you you know what it's the lineage when I started you know TNA Wrestling. We we had an alliance with those guys. Yeah, and and the the NWA Championship, but you know that title especially, you know, kind of coast to coast as Flair would say it. And you know Rick was on our was on Dynamite. Yeah last week, you never know when it made his debut and he says he'll go man literal, we're riding shotgun with Staying on this retirement tour, right stayings
held the ten pounds of goal. But you know, that lineage goes back to I think it's nineteen forty eight, nineteen forty nine, so the funks, the Briscoes Harley Race, We could go through the champions, but there's a lineage of champions that that belt. You know it it is, you know, kind of the original world heavyweight champion. But as time goes on, you know, you look on our aw roster, there's a few of us that have held the ten pounds a goal, so that that kind of
speaks volumes for the belt. Yeah. I think that that's really really cool because I always feel like in the later years, as wrestling has grown, it feels like NWA not necessarily gets left behind, but people just kind of forget about the roots, and I always try to keep it alive. I talked to some promoters and stuff that still work over there, and writers just as well, so I'd like to give them a shout out. We're going to be wrapping up here in a couple of minutes. I gotta have another
question for you. We were talking about the show. Louisville is such a historic town when it just comes to combat, when you talk about the old Tuesday nights at the Louisville Gardens, when you talk about all the Muhammad Ali, the greatest it's ever come through here. And you have a very solid training ground of Ohio Valley Wrestling, and you have a guy over there that you're really close with, Al Snow, and you said that you've kept in
contact with them. What do you think about what Al's doing to kind of keep everything still relevant here in Kentucky. And you obviously seen have you seen the wrestlers showing that, you know what my podcast partner, Conrad Thompson, Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Shout out Conrad. I promised him I would watch it, but I watched wrestling, and I watched sports and a casions, some news on TV, but I will get around to watch.
But you know, Louisville again, it kind of goes back to when you look at the success of the Netflix series right now in OVW and you kind of draw that lineage. It kind of goes back to literally day one. WW obviously had the developmental you know, Bautista and and a lot of other names. You know, there's a lot of names more than that. You know all that it's called Davis Arena. And my father passed away in February this year and Danny came up, Danny Davis who founded it all over.
He is the he is the o G of ov W. Uh Danny Davis, and he got things the Nightmare. But when you kind of look at why do he uh you know, why did he set up shop in Louisville, it goes back to Tuesday Night at the Louisville Garden. It's just the lineage we were talking about n w A. The lineage of OBE ov W is tied in so much, uh to to the history of this town. Uh of and it all, you know, was wrapped around wave TV and uh Saturday mornings and uh Tuesday night at the at the Louisville garden. So
it's pretty cool. Uh. I am very happy for this success. You know, ol uh is a part of partners in a video Game Mega Cat Studios. But we launched a game, uh, just two months ago, Russell Quest. So you're a gamer out there. It's a Japanese role playing now Japanese role playing game. It is a success has kind of blown me away. Uh. It just keeps growing and growing and growing, and we've
got even some real cool announcements coming up soon about the game. But yeah, Russell Quest, you can get it anywhere you buy video games right now. But I was a part of that, so I've got to stay in contact with him through that. Yeah, well that sounds pretty good. And once again you're just hearing Jeff Jared. You mentioned Conrad Thompson was your is your podcast hosts, and you can right before you get out of here,
just let the people know who's listening. Right now, you're reaching iHeartRadio ninety seven to five, WAMZ Kentucky, inas number one for a new country. Let them know where they can find you at when you're when you're either doing your video game stuff or you're doing TikTok stuff, or where else they can listen to you. I make it real easy at Real Jeff Chair, at Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. My podcast drops every Tuesday with Conrad every Tuesday
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once again. You can catch Jeff and all the other wonderful Next Generation superstars at ae W when they make their debut at the KFC. Young Senator coming to Louisville for Dynamite and Rampage. He right, Eric coming to Dinamite Rant. You guys get two shows. That's a lot of wrestling, so come out. Make sure you head on over to wamz dot com keyword contest find out how you can win tickets to that show. Jeff, we appreciate you having on again and especially your guy John for coming to help us out.
And want to give a big shout out to our guy down in Nashville for always wanting to give us shit ten battle. We hear you, brother, You hear you. Thank you for coming on, Jeff, and you have yourself a wonderful day. Appreciate you.