Effy wants another shot at Jeff Jarrett.
During an appearance on The Sessions with Renee Paquette, Effy spoke about some of his more high-profile matches and the approach his opponents took to their respective contests. Effy recently worked with Dirty Dango at New South’s Heart Of The Southern Sixteen Tournament, and he explained how they were able to put their match together and work around restrictions placed on Dango back when he was with WWE.
“We got to wrestle each other in Alabama, and to be in the position I was in, I was like this is bizarre because he’s going, I still have WWE brain, like I still have fed brain, what are we gonna do? How are we putting this together? We’re supposed to be the main event, this is a tournament where there’s so many matches, and I got to be casual indie Effy and go like here’s what we’re gonna do, pal, and sort of guide him back into we don’t have an agent, we have no time limit as the main. We can do whatever we want, we don’t have to do anything if we don’t want to, and let’s make sure we’re enjoying ourselves. And so to kind of see that transformation of like I’m used to fighting for what I want, I’m used to having to take the direction to get the spot, to get on TV, to get in front of people. Now you’re the focus, the people are here to see you, whatever you do will work as long as you can make it work. And we’re both professional athletes, let’s go do it.
“And I’ve sort of said that there’s an Effy epiphany that happens, and I’ve seen it happen — [I’ve faced] Jeff Jarrett, Cardona, PCO, Jimmy Jacobs, Fandango, Minoru Suzuki, where I don’t have the background of like oh we know he worked at Ring of Honor, he worked at NXT, he worked at IMPACT, we know his thing in this, we know he’s safe. There’s a little bit of an outlaw unsafeness in me existing. I know I’m soft and kind and gay, but I’m also hardcore and crazy, and I talk a lot of sh-t. So there’s this little bit of apprehension when we get in.”
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Effy then explained how he worked with Jeff Jarrett for their match at The Wrld On GCW in January. Effy said that he stood his ground and made sure to work a style of match that he wanted while paying respect to the history involved.
“I remember sort of like having to lambast Jeff Jarrett a little bit because he wanted to do some things that I was not gonna have happen and I was not gonna let happen. And you’re going, ‘this is bizarre right now that I’m holding the line to Jeff Jarrett and telling him what he’s gonna do.’ But if I don’t, I’m not gonna get the product I want and I’m not gonna get the experience I want. And after they finish working with me, they get the moment where they’re like that was fun, that was enjoyable.
“The people loved it. If you get that moment in the middle of the ring, which this one’s way more powerful, where you know we’re planning to do something and it’s just really loud and the people are into it and they’re excited, and they take a second. Because they just feel it, and you go, yeah. We did that together. You thought this was gonna be a task. Jeff Jarrett famously said ‘where’s Eppy?’ He was calling me Eppy the first time before we met. ‘Where’s Eppy at?’ And you know, when that’s your starting point with someone who you’re supposed to be in a 50-50 feud with, you got a little work to do. But approaching everything with we’re professional humans, we are both regular people. I know there’s a storied history, but right now and in this moment, it’s Effy and you, and we’ve gotta both make it look good.”
It looked like Effy versus Jarrett might go down one more time, but it will have to wait for now since Jarrett returned to WWE as the company’s Senior Vice President of Live Events. Effy feels like he deserves one more match against Jarrett, but feels like he got the whole Jarrett “experience” the first time around.
“I have to brag on myself. Now that he ran back to Vince, and maybe we’re doing a Memphis storyline where this goes longer. But I think I deserve one more match, I was at the top of the mountain, the King Of The Mountain Jeff Jarrett. I did not die to the guitar shot that happened in the Hammerstein Ballroom. I no-show a guitar shot. I’ve never seen it done from Jeff Jarrett before.
“And second, I took the Stroke, the famous Jeff Jarrett move, with a guitar around my neck, I’ve never seen it done before. Everybody tried to talk me out of it because it’s very dangerous, but I said I have to have this moment because as you all know, they said how was Jeff Jarrett, I said I got the full Jeff Jarrett experience. I got to fight him, I got to lose to him, and I got to have him decide to change the finish halfway through a show. So you gotta get the full Jeff Jarrett. And when you look back on the memory, you go oh yeah, he got me too. Me and Vince have that in common too.”
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