Marty Jannetty on Byte This.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

 

Marty Jannetty will be this week's guest on Byte This! Be sure to tune in to hear him talk about his return to WWE earlier in the year, his release from the company and his recent arrest. Also, get Jannetty's comments on Shawn Michaels' match with Hulk Hogan at SummerSlam.

 

If it's out of character (and with someone not employed by the company, you'd think it would be... except for kayfabe comments about the HBK/Hogan match) it could be interesting. That's also a very nice picture of Marty they elected to use.

[Guest *KNK*]

Is that his mug shot?

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

That's what I was thinking, too.

[chaosrage 0]

I can't wait. What was he arrested for?

[Guest *KNK*]

I can't wait.  What was he arrested for?

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I *think* Domestic abuse...

[Downhome 0]

Well this is classy of WWE:

 

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ActiveOffenders/...ionID=967126133

[tominator89 0]

Nice, address and all. Too bad they didn't list his phone number.

[Guest Quik]

I'm gonna mail Marty some pot.

[Precious Roy 0]

I'm gonna mail Marty some papes

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Former WWE Superstar Ted DiBiase talks about the highs and lows of Marty Jannetty’s life and career. For more on Jannetty, be sure to watch Byte This!

 

I’ve known Marty for a long, long time, and there’s many people who know that Marty has had his ups and downs — and he’d be the first person to tell you that — but it’s a pretty incredible story: Marty had hit an all-time low, he and Shawn Michaels - who were tag team partners for years - had a very bitter breakup several years ago. And after that breakup, it seems that Shawn’s career went through the roof, and in Marty’s own words, his went into the cellar. Living down in Florida, he got picked up on a DUI, and then got another DUI and was actually facing some jail time. I guess he had pretty much come to the end the rope, in his own words, said, “You know what, I was thinking about ‘checking out.’ My career was over, I don’t have a family, I’m not married.” And he just didn’t seem to have anything to look forward to or live for.

 

And so he said he was going to take a walk and try to talk to “a God who never seemed to answer him.” And so he took this walk, and he had a cell phone with him, and the cell phone wasn’t even his — it was a friend’s phone — and as he was walking and having this heart-to-heart with, as he described it, “a God who never seemed to answer,” the phone rang. And because he didn’t recognize the number, he didn’t answer the phone. And there was no audible voice from Heaven; again no answer. So, he goes back and he gives the phone to his friend, and basically, what he told me, was he was going to go call his family and tell them … the way he told it to me was, “I was going to say goodbye without letting them know what I was going to do.”

 

He was ready to check out. And as he was about to leave, his buddy says, “Wait Marty, I don’t recognize this number either, so let me check.” And much to his surprise, the voice on the other end of the phone and the message was from Shawn Michaels. Now, what are the odds? Here’s a guy who was his bosom-buddy all these years, they have this horrible breakup, and all these years later, on the darkest day of his life, when he’s about to ‘check out,’ he gets a phone call from Shawn Michaels.

 

I’m a very firm believer in God. Many people know that I’m even a minister today. The skeptics will call it coincidence — I don’t believe in coincidences — and I think what Marty needed that day was a miracle and I think he got it. The message from Shawn was basically, “Marty, I’m calling because I want to apologize for whatever part I had in our breakup. I love you like a brother. I want to renew our friendship.” Shawn went on to say that his life had changed dramatically; he had found Christianity, and that he was on his way to a conference, actually a conference that a number of wrestlers had attended with me, a conference out in Phoenix, Arizona. And he said, “Marty, if you’ll come along with me, I’ll pay your way.”

 

And Marty came to the conference. Marty had a wonderful time, made a decision to give his heart and his life to Jesus Christ, and at that time, at least we thought, everything was looking great. Now, I haven’t had a chance to talk to Marty since this last bump in the road happened. But he and I have known each other since the very beginning back in Kansas City when he was a young guy and I was a young guy, and we’ve been down the bad road together many times, and I’m never one to cast any stones.

 

I wish Marty very well. I hope that everything works out for him. I’m still holding out and hoping that eventually the opportunity will come that he can get back here with us in the company. But that’s just one of those stories that you hear and you just go, “Wow!” To me, it’s like for the skeptic who says that there is no God, well, what are the odds? I mean, what are the odds?

[Slickster 0]

Very interesting story from the Million Dollar Man. Too bad I can't read that without expecting him to burst into maniacal laughter at the end of it.

 

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a recent pic of Ted DiBiase?

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

At first I thought Marty was being diplomatic about his description of The Rockers Reunion Tour falling through ("Shawn was busy with other stuff") but he changed it to "Shawn was being an ass".

[chaosrage 0]

It's on already? Shit. What did he say?

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Kayfabe mode on

[BHK 0]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a recent pic of Ted DiBiase?

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This one appears to be fairly recent:

 

[GreatWhiteNope 0]

Here's one from February:

http://www.ilstuato.com/photos/2005SportsExpo.jpg

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Does Dibiase still work for WWE? That's what he implied at the end there. In what capacity?

[Precious Roy 0]

Does Dibiase still work for WWE? That's what he implied at the end there. In what capacity?

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He's an agent.

[Team Angle Pusher 0]

No I thought he's a writer of some sort.

[Si82 0]

No I thought he's a writer of some sort.

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I'm sure I read somewhere that he works as an agent. But, perhaps he's both.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

I wanna mark out seeing him break up worked fights and stuff then, surely that's what agents are for.

 

I thought his religious-ness led him to sever his ties with the company around the attitude era, but fair enough.

[Guest jumpingbombangel]

Speaking to WWE Byte This about the arrest that led to his WWE

release, Marty Jannetty blamed it on his "past catching up with him."

Jannetty, who was a heavy-partier, noted that his life of "sex, drugs

and rock and roll" recently reemerged.

 

Jannetty confirmed that he was jailed on a "domestic charge" related

to a dispute with his girlfriend. On probation due to a recent DUI

arrest (Jannetty explained that he does not view DUI arrests as "evil"

since they're just a symptom of too much partying), he was immediately

jailed with no bond.

 

Because he could not get released from jail, he was unable to fulfill

his WWE bookings and was released. Jannetty referred to his return to

WWE as the greatest moment in his life, so it was unfortunate that his

latest run with WWE was so short-lived.

 

Yeah, Marty, DUIs aren't evil. It's just the drunken bastard behind the wheel that deserves to roast in hell, is all.