Jeff Jarrett: WWE Answers To Wall Street As Opposed To Wrestling Fans
Jeff Jarrett weighs in on the state of WWE.
WWE created headlines at the beginning of the year by bringing back The Rock and bringing in Travis Scott for moments at WWE Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania 41.
Unfortunately for fans, those moments didn’t lead to anything as Rock disappeared following Elimination Chamber and Scott disappeared following WrestleMania despite both playing significant roles in John Cena’s heel turn and 17th title win.
On My World, Jeff Jarrett and Conrad Thompson were going through the good, bad, and ugly of 2025 with Conrad saying that Scott’s involvement in the main event was “ugly.” He then explained how Rock got involved because Ari Emanuel made a call to increase interest and ticket sales without a real creative plan.
Jarrett weighed in by saying, “This will not be measured until 36 months from now, maybe longer. The leader in the marketplace, the company that has been around forever, WWE. What’s their market share? Over 80? It’s way up. Whatever their market share is, they have fundamentally shifted their decision-making process. They answer to Wall Street as opposed to wrestling fans. That is the biggest bad out of 2025. It’s very clear that is the decision. Ticket prices, that’s going to ebb and flow, and the market will bear what it bears. The residual of Ari and the team answering to Wall Street as opposed to really listening to their audience, it’s going to be interesting. We’re in the entertainment. Toby (Keith) didn’t write songs to figure out what radio was going to play, he figured out, ‘I’m going to write to what makes the most money.’ There is a difference. What makes money is writing for your fans,” said Jarrett.
Thompson noted that the TKO stock price went from $1.43 per share to start the year and is up to $2.17 per share to end the year.
Fans can read what Logan Paul had to say about Travis Scott here.
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