Jeff Jarrett’s Global Force Wrestling returns. GFW held an event yesterday in Nashville for the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. The show also featured appearances by WWE Hall of Famers Jerry Lawler, Ricky Steamboat.
This is the second consecutive year that Jarrett’s GFW has held an event in conjunction with the Music City Bowl.
We reached out to our friend Sigmon, one half of the tag team The Heatseekers, who has participated in both years of the Music City Bowl & GFW Events for a comments on yesterday’s show.
Sigmon said, “The 2nd annual Music City Bowl Players Party event was a fantastic time. The atmosphere in the arena from the UK & Northwestern players was electric & our locker room knocked it out of the park! It was also great to visit with the great people & families from Wounded Warriors & Gold Star Families. Elliott & I are honored to work with Global Force Wrestling & Tried N True Pro Wrestling & I can’t wait to see these great companies continue to grow in 2018!”
Below is a tweet from our friends “The Heatseekers” following yesterday’s GFW event:
A solid Music City Bowl wrestling event in the books! Also great to hangout with Jeff Jarrett, laugh a little & sit under the learning tree a bit!#Heatseekers 🔥
•#GFW #JoinTheForce@GFWWrestling
•@TriedNTruePro
•@MusicCityBowl pic.twitter.com/xyyPE0RyEm— Sigmon (@sigmonwrestling) December 28, 2017
Here is the press release issued this morning regarding yesterday’s GFW event in Nashville for the Music City Bowl:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Kentucky Wildcats and Northwestern Wildcats were treated to a night of Global Force Wrestling action on Wednesday as part of the festivities for the 20th annual Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.
Bowl officials asked Jeff Jarrett and GFW to return after the promotion became the first to partner with a bowl game for a night of entertainment a year ago. The 2017 event was bigger and better, with appearances by WWE Hall of Famers Jerry “The King” Lawler and Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat.
“First and foremost, I have to thank the people at the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, especially President and CEO Scott Ramsey and VP of Events Jay Grider,” Jarrett said. “We were thrilled to be asked to return. It was a fun night for us, and it seemed as though the players and coaches enjoyed it as much as we did.
“I also would be remiss if I didn’t thank everyone at WWE for helping to make this possible.”
At the private event at Gaylord Opryland Hotel, players, coaches and team officials had a meet and greet with GFW co-founders Jeff and Karen Jarrett as well as Lawler and Steamboat, and then settled in for an exciting card of wrestling action.
“We want to thank everyone who lent their support to this event,” Karen Jarrett said. “It was great to see the Wildcats of Kentucky and Northwestern really get into the show, and we were thankful to meet bowl special guests Wounded Warriors Service Members and Families.”
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl President and CEO Scott Ramsey said the wrestling event went over well a year ago because it’s something unique and it made sense to bring it back.
“It was memorable for the players to meet wrestling legends like Jeff Jarrett, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler and Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat,” Ramsey said. “Jeff and Jerry are synonymous with wrestling in Tennessee and Kentucky.
“The Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl always will strive to be at the forefront of entertaining its participants. Being in Nashville we’re positioned to do that as well or better than any bowl game. And we couldn’t me more excited about the matchup we have for our 20th anniversary.”
