RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Sports and Wrestling Jeff Jarrett Returning to the Ring in TNA?

The promotion I was in had booked Big Vito for a show shortly after he was in WCW possibly around the time he was tag champ. Anyways we heard WCW had stopped Indy bookings for their low rung talent and we asked Vito's booker if he was one pulled and he assured us he wasnt and could still make the show, all the way up till the night of the show, that day they call and say he isn't allowed. Anyways the crowd was pissed, attendance fell off for a few months.


I guess Vito's booker talked to Jake the Snake's and she contacted us offering to book Jake for like $1200, plus flight from Texas(TEXAS!)and motel. Jake agrees to make a pre show radio remote from a local car dealership as well. We get a round trip ticket from Texas from Priceline for like $300 or so. We send a $500 retainer.


Day of show, me and a couple of workers drive to Cinci CVG airport to pick him up, I am so stoked, I'm gunna meet Jake the Snake, I've just had my first match, I'm gunna get to pick his brain all the way back home(like 2 hrs.)


this is pre-9/11 so you go all the way down to the boarding/unload. the jet pulls up, passengers get off, no Jake. we ask the woman at the counter if everyone is off the plane, they check, no Jake. oh shit, we call our booker who arranged the flight, double check it's the flight, he hasnt heard a thing, we check the counter, no more flights from Texas(TEXAS!) today. oh shit. we presold like 400 tickets with room for a couple hundred more.


we get back to town and no one has herd anything, we call his booker, she hasnt heard from him all day. the show is scheduled to start at 8:00 PM. the bingo hall is split in two parts so we have to walk outback to come in the ring entrance door. everyone has worked hard pushing the show, and now it looks to be a disaster. we are standing outback debating whether to cancel, tell the crowd he might be here knowing he wont, or offer discounts, or free tickets.


the decision is made to continue the show and offer a refund, it's 7:59 and we are out back and the announcer is going to go in and make the announcement. suddenly a late model Buick with texas(TEXAS!) tags pulls in, and we are all in our outfits(im in my Lucha gear), giant Bingo Hall sign on the building, Jake the Snake Roberts climbs from the car and says, is this the Bingo Hall with the wrestling show tonight? We are all like "yes"! He says, "How's that for timing boys?" Years later I figure he had to have been in town awhile and was just waiting across the street, that's too close, in a town you never been too.

Jake comes in, his driver this young black kid looks to be 19 or 20, Jake says he's training him at his school.

the guy Jake is wrestling is a 6 or 7 year vet who worked midcard fpr USWA so he goes up to Jake to find out what they'll be doing, Jake says test of strength to start, we'll work the rest out in the ring. he then says he's sleepy, to wake him when it's time to wrestle. he's told they need to do a show beggining promo, he reluctantly agrees. by now it's obvious he has drunk a couple 5ths of Jim Beam, he's wearing a Jake the Snake shirt that hasnt been washed since Warrior/Hogan, his tights were even dirtier. he stunk of a truck stop.


on his way to the ring a woman ask him where his snake is , he replies right here baby, and starts to pull his pants down, security stops him, and keeps him going to the ring.


more to come im tired of typing.