Jerry Jarett to make wrestling come back with 'new' version of pro wrestling

Jarrett was a professional wrestler before co-founding TNA

From a recent report on the Wrestling Inc, former professional wrestler Jerry Jarett has said that he plans on introducing a 13 week series on wrestling, which would be similar to WWE Tough Enough, the reality TV series showcases extreme wrestling training that the participants endure.

A co-founder of TNA, Jarett turned professional in 1965 and retired in 1988. After having done a stint as a promoter, Jerry Jarrett had invested in creating a foundation for the then lacking wrestling scene in the United States of America.

He controlled the ownership of NWA: TNA for a period of five months – from May of 2002 to October of the same year, before selling the majority share held by him to Panda Energy. As a former wrestler he has a number of exploits to his name.

Earlier this year there were speculations about Jarett making a possible return to wrestling with him promoting Classic Wrestling Revolution, although there are doubts over this, given the relationship between Jarett and his son Jeff Jarrett.

Jarett wrote on his Facebook page that he would be getting back to wrestling when “hell froze over”. He went on to say that he had felt a chill in the air and that he had not officially announced his plans, but that it had been in the pipeworks with his attorneys looking into it.

He also claimed that it would be something that wrestling fans would love to sink their teeth into.

The series will see Jarett bringing in around fifty individual wrestlers by asking them to submit audition tapes and then selecting them for what will be the premier season of what he called the “American Idol version of wrestling.” He is then set to bring in a few already established and featured fighters and have them facing off with the rookies.

It will feature three judges on the stage, while the wrestlers have it out, to call out the fouls, botches and whatnot toute de suite.

There already are sightings on the internet condemning the venture on the grounds of it being a hash-up of old, used up ideas. What the rest of the wrestling fans and community has to say will be seen and deserving of being news-worthy as well.