


His falling out and reconciliation with Jeff Jarrett:

"I was sort of back to treading water again because Bruce Prichard came in and Eric Bischoff came in and they didn't really know anything about me and I had this reputation as someone who Dixie liked so that immediately kind of turned them all off to me. I was kind of like well that's not my fault because I'm just trying to get better and trying to get good at this and Jeff (Jarrett) had seen this in me and seen how I tried to improve and seen how much I tried to pay attention and sat on the head sets so I could learn everything about television."

"When I finished up with TNA there was a situation created where I couldn't stay with them and they couldn't afford to keep my contract and I wasn't going to take a pay cut and its been well documented that I didn't gel very well with John Gaburick. That relationship wasn't going to work so right away I decided to move on and right away Jeff had Global Force and yes it didn't do much and didn't go anywhere but he went with me and he went for it and right away brings me in and I'm the first champion in front of a few thousand people in Vegas beating Bobby Roode in the middle of the ring. When someone does those things for you, you don't forget it."

"There was a time where Jeff and I didn't speak for a long time and we had a pretty major incident and a pretty major falling out. I won't go into all of the details but there was a major falling out between Jeff, Karen and myself and my wife. It pretty much completely changed our relationship up to then. It was me that said Jeff was having some personal problems later on that when we had our falling out that it was obviously a time in his life where I wasn't aware of his problems at the time but he was suffering and he was an alcoholic. So I decided after he had been inducted into the Hall of Fame, I reached out to him and asked him, said there was no pay day but I'd really like it and it would mean a lot to me if he was part of my entourage and walked me to the ring at All In because it is a testament to you. You helped teach me to be ready and he did it. Once I explained it that way to Nick and Matt (Jackson) that we have a chance here to set a precedent because I don't know what there beef with him was or that situation because that's not my business. I said this is your show and the whole point of All In is saying it can be done. Lets stop being so petty and silly and what better way to exemplify that than to say we even allowed Jeff Jarrett to be here. The past is the past and we are all in this together and once I explained it to them like that they said absolutely and now the relationship is back to where it was now and the Bucks are happy so everyone is happy."

The importance of being NWA World Champion:


