Jeff Jarrett on Owen Hart Cup: ‘A Standalone Event Would be a Challenge’

WWE Hall of Famer believes that turning the Owen Hart Cup tournament into a standalone PPV event would not be easy for AEW.

This year’s Owen Hart Foundation Men's tournament will see the winner advance to a World Championship match that will take place at AEW All In: London 2024. One of the announced participants in the men’s tournament bracket includes Jeff Jarrett , who has a personal connection with Owen Hart.

On a recent episode of the My World With Jeff Jarrett podcast, Jarrett talked about what the challenges the Jacksonville-based promotion could face if they try to run a Owen Hart Cup PPV.

Double J said that tournaments are a “challenge from a creative perspective.” According to him, this is the “age of instant gratification” and everyone is more interested in seeing who is the winner at the end of it all.

“That’s it. ‘I want to see who’s winning this thing.’ And so I think you would have to do multiple things around it. I think a stand-alone could be a challenge… A standalone event, I think would be a challenge because I think the stories, episodically the way it’s laid out right now, are probably a better route.” (via 411Mania )

Jarrett also reminisced about his matches Owen Hart, recalling how there would be a small or a big rib during every match.

On AEW collision, Jarrett got emotional and talked spoke about being in the Owen Hart Cup, and revealed how much he misses Owen:

"When I was asked initially about being in the Owen Hart Foundation tournament, all the emotion came back. It's hard for me to imagine, it's been 25 years, but there's so many things about Owen that I remember like it was yesterday. In the late 90s we would become tag team champions and I look back on those days as the favorite days of my career."

The finals of the men’s and women’s tournaments of the Owen Hart Cup will take place on the July 10 episode of Dynamite.