Marty Jannetty

Fredrick Martin Jannetty
Data
Ring name	Marty Jannetty
height	178 cm
Fighting weight	102 kg
birth	February 3, 1962 Columbus , Georgia , USA
Trained by	Jerry Oates
debut	April 5th , 1984

Fredrick Martin ("Marty") Jannetty (born February 3, 1962 in Columbus , Georgia ) is an American wrestler . He is best known under the name Marty Jannetty as part of the former tag team The Rockers .

Career

1984-1988

Marty Jannetty began his career in the center of the USA in a regional promotion under the banner of the NWA . After about a year he met another newcomer named Shawn Michaels and from then on formed the tag team with him, The Midnight Rockers , which started in the AWA in 1986 . There the young team quickly impressed the audience with their highflying actions, which were often carried out synchronously, as well as their good looks and their rebellious attitude. Jannetty and Michaels won the AWA World Tag-Team Championship twice before leaving the league for WWF (now WWE) in 1988 .

1988-1993

In the WWF, the team only called itself The Rockers . They were quickly recognized by fans and critics as one of the most talented teams in the league. Marty Jannetty was generally considered to be the main part of the duo who set the tone both in the ring and in interviews. Jannetty was therefore, as well as due to his somewhat greater experience, a successful career as a single wrestler more likely than his partner. Despite their popularity, the Rockers never officially won the WWF Tag Team Championship . Although they won the title in 1990 from the Hart Foundation , the Foundation was allowed to keep the title because of an unexpected contract extension for Jim Neidhart , who had actually already left the WWF . The previously recorded title change was never shown on TV and is still not officially recognized. Another reason for the cancellation of the title change, explained by Shawn Michaels on his DVD "Heartbreak & Triumph", was the fact that the top ring rope broke during the match and you had to improvise halfway through the match. So they were dissatisfied with the match and didn't want to broadcast it. The match was then no longer repeated due to Jim Neidhart's contract extension. The Rockers are now considered the best tag team of the WWF, which never won the highest team gold in the league.

The lack of recorded success, according to the storyline, led to a growing dissatisfaction with Shawn Michaels, so that he abandoned Jannetty during a match at the 1991 Survivor Series . In the interview segment The Barbershop , hosted by Brutus Beefcake , the rockers' differences were supposed to be settled, but in the end Michaels gave his partner a super kick during the interview and then threw him through a pane of glass. In order to adequately relate the injury suffered as a result , Jannetty was then not used in the WWF for several months.

1993-1996

In January 1993, Shawn Michaels had started a successful solo career and held the WWF Intercontinental Championship . Jannetty returned and challenged his former partner to a match for the Royal Rumble title . After an intervention by Michaels' then Valets Sensational Sherri , Jannetty lost this fight, but he finally won the title in May in one of the first editions of Monday Night RAW . Just a month later, Michaels got the belt back with the help of his new bodyguard Diesel .

Shortly before the Royal Rumble in 1994, Jannetty won his second WWF title when he defeated the Quebecers Jacques and Pierre together with the 1-2-3 Kid and thus secured the WWF World Tag Team Championship, which made him part of the Rockers had been denied for a long time. This time, however, it only took a week before Jannetty lost this title (again to the Quebecers). In the same year Jannetty left the WWF. He first cured a few injuries and then competed for various independent leagues and briefly for the ECW .

1996-2006

Jannetty returned to the WWF in 1996. After a short time he did gymnastics in heels and founded the New Rockers with Leif Cassidy , a new edition of the tag team, which has since become a legend. The team had little success. Jannetty and Cassidy attacked Shawn Michaels, who has meanwhile even become WWF World Heavyweight Champion , which continued the feud of the former rockers after almost 5 years of its creation. The two met in a title match at RAW, but Jannetty lost and left the league again shortly afterwards. Subsequent engagements in the WCW and ECW remained without any significant result and only lasted for a very short time.

Due to his drug problems and the disappointing course of his career, Marty Jannetty was on the verge of suicide after the turn of the millennium . Shawn Michaels, whose friendship with Jannetty had blossomed again after a longer crisis (not linked to the hostility of the two in the storylines), proselytized him to the "born again Christians " and, according to his own words, saved his life. In March 2005 Jannetty returned to the WWE and appeared again in a single match with Michaels under the name The Rockers . Although Jannetty got a permanent contract with the league due to his surprisingly good physical condition, his dismissal followed only a few weeks later due to private problems.

2006 – today

In February 2006, Jannetty completed another appearance for WWE. He "saved" Michaels from an attack by the five members of the Stables Spirit Squad . On the same evening Vince McMahon announced that he would offer Jannetty a new full-time contract - on the condition that he joins the "Kiss my Ass Club", which means kissing McMahon's bosom. When Jannetty refused, McMahon offered him a contract on the condition that he could counter Chris Masters Finisher ( Master Lock ); Jannetty did not succeed because of an intervention by McMahon.

On March 3, 2006, WWE announced through its website that all relations with Marty Jannetty had been severed. The exact background of this statement is not known for sure, although a legally imposed travel restriction is supposed to be a reason for this renewed release. For this claim, however , Dave Meltzer was clearly criticized by Jannetty.

In the following years he appeared again on an independent level, before he had another guest appearance on December 10, 2007 for the 15th anniversary of the WWE Show Raw and competed against Mr. Kennedy .

successes

World Wrestling Entertainment

• 1 × WWF Intercontinental Champion
• 1 × WWF Tag Team Champion (with 1-2-3 kid )

American Wrestling Association

• 2 × AWA World Tag Team Champion (with Shawn Michaels )
• 2 × AWA Southern Tag Team Champion (with Shawn Michaels)

Others

• 4 × Central States Tag Team Champion (2 × with Tommy Rogers, 1 × each with Shawn Michaels & Bob Brown)
• 1 × Central States Heavyweight Champion
• 1 × Central States Television Champion
• 1 × WWWA Intercontinental Champion
• 1 × MTW Heavyweight Champion
• 1 × MWA Heavyweight Champion
• 1 × NBPW Heavyweight Champion
• 1 × SWA Television Champion
• 1 × DWA World Heavyweight Champion

Web links

Commons : Marty Jannetty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

1. ↑ martyjannetty.net ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )